This plant, the Hyacinthus cernuus of" the above-cited 

 work of Linn vE us, is, as we have ftated in the latter part of the 

 article Scilla campanulata in No. 1102, a variety of Scilla 

 nonfcripta, and not to be confounded with the pink one of the 

 fpecies we are there fpeaking of. In the fame place will be 

 found our opinion of that which milled Linnaeus to confider 

 the plant as diftinct from his H. nan fcriptus, and to adopt, as 

 diftin&ions between them, marks that are nowife conftant as 

 fuch; as well as to fpeak of it as peculiar to Spain. When 

 he defcribes the degree of bending in its raceme, which he does 

 in a note, it is plain he could not have had a variety of cam- 

 panulata in view ; although the fpecimen in the Bankfian Her- 

 barium {hews that the compilers of the firft edition of the Hortus 

 Kewenfis afterwards had; in the laft edition indeed there is no 

 mention of the fpecies as diftinft from nonfcripta and campanulata. 

 Miller had obferved that the plant appeared to be a mere 

 variety of the Englifh Harebell. We infert Gerard's account 

 of the fpecies : " The blew Harebels or Englifh Jacinth is very 

 common throughout England. The white Englifh Jacinth is 

 altogether like the precedent, faving that the leaves of this are 

 fomewhat broader, the flowers more open, and very white of 

 colour. There is found wilde in many places of England 

 another fort, having flowers of a faire carnation colour, which 

 maketh a difference from the other. The blew Harebells grow 

 wilde in woods, copfes, and in borders of fields every where 

 thorow England. The other two are not fo common, yet do 

 they grow in the woods by Colchefter in Effex, in the fields 

 and woods by South-Fleet neere unto Gravefend in Kent, as 

 alfo in a piece of ground by Canterbury, called the Clapper ; 

 in the fields by Bathe, about the woods by Warrington in Lan- 

 cafhire and other places." Parkinson mentions the fpecies 

 as varying with flowers " of a fine delayed purplifh red orblufh- 

 colour." We have given neither fpecific character nor defcrip- 

 tion in our article, thofe of the blue variety having been fo fre- 

 quently and fo fully given in other works ; and the differences 

 between it and campanulata will be found dated in No. 1102. 



The drawing was made from a fpecimen that was fent us la-it 

 fpring from Mr. Ha worth's garden, at Little-Chelfea. G. 



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