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-Class and Order, 
Hexanprra Nowoaiuns: a 
Generic Character. 
Cor. hexapetala, patens, decidua. -Filamenta filiformia. 
Specific Chatavter and Synonyms. 
‘Scizta lusitanita ; racemo oblongo, pedicellis flore brevio- 
ribus, foliis lato-lanceolatis undulatis distichis. Zeal 
Scitza lusitanica ; racemo oblongo conico, petalis lineatis. 
Syst. Veg. ed. 12. p. 243. ed. 13. p. 271. ed. 14. p. 329. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 129. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 264. 
Hyacinruvs stellaris coeruleus, staminibus e viridi luteis. 
Bauh. Pin. 46. Rudb. Elys. 2. p. 34. f. 4. . 
Hyacinravs stellatus italicus. Hort. Hyst. ord. vern 2, ad 
Sc. lusitanicam potius quam ad ttalicam pertinet, et ad 
illam relata fuit a Bauhino et Rudbeckio. 
The Bulb of our plant is smooth, tunicated like the hya- 
cinth, and shews no disposition to throw out offsets. Leaves 
erect, growing distichwise on each side of the scape, lanceo- 
late, somewhat undulate, of a full yellowish green colour ; 
outer ones two feet long, and two inches wide in the middle. 
Scape erect, rounded, bearing its flowers in a long raceme on 
very short bluish pedicles ; the colour of the petals nearly 
white, with a tinge of blue, that of the germen a saturate blue, 
of the anthers a dull purple with yellow pollen. : 
The references to the figures of the old authors for Scitua 
ttalica, hyacinthoides and lusitanica, seem to us to be very 
"unsatisfactory, nor are the characters much less so, if the — 
plants drawn in this work under these names are properly de- 
signated, of which we have no doubt. It must be oes 
