us HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Hyacinthus. 



merous, of a shining, pale, slightly glaucous, green, linear, point- 

 ed, channelled, keeled, flaccid ; upright in their lower half, then 

 reflexed and drooping. Stalk taller than the foliage, round, cen- 

 tral. Cluster partly upright, drooping in the upper half, of many 

 pendulous, blue, sweet-scented /^ozters, each nearly an inch long. 

 Bracteas lanceolate, tapering, in pairs, unequal, longer than the 

 partial stalks. Cor. of a tubular bcU-shape. Stam. united with 

 the petals half way up. Germ, ovate, angular, without any ho- 

 ney-bearing pores. Style about the same length, deciduous, 

 except the very base. Stigma abrupt. The most decisive cha- 

 racter of H/jacinihiis, a monopetalous corolla, to say nothing of 

 the nectariferous pores, is wanting in this plant 5 and whoever 

 attends to natural genera, without which there can be no idea 

 of natural orders, must perceive its agreement with every cha- 

 racter and indication of St'dla. So closely is it allied to S. cam- 

 panulata of Banks and Solander, IVilld. v. 2, 128, that few per- 

 fectly distinct species of any natural genus can better exemplify 

 such a genus. Hence it is no less clearly associated with other 

 Scillce. Jussieu has proposed removing it from Hyacinthus, 

 though he, from theory, considers the corolla as merely divided 

 into 6 deep segments. The slightest examination will prove it 

 of 6 petals, as distinct as in almost any flower whatever. 



192. HYACINTHUS. Hyacinth. 



Linn. Gen. 170. Jmss.52. Tourn.t. ISO. Lam. t. 238. 

 Muscari. Tourn. t. 180. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 190. 



Cal. none. Cor. inferior, of 1 petal, deciduous ; tube some- 

 what bell-shaped, or globose; limb in 6 deep, regular, 

 reflexed segments, shorter than the tube. ^^ Nectary 3 

 pores upon the germen." Linn. Juss. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, equal, proceeding fi'om the tube, and inclosed 

 within it. Anth. oblong, converging. Gen7i. supei-ioi", 

 roundish, with 3 angles, and 3 furrows. Style simple, 

 erect, shorter than the tube, deciduous. Stigma obtuse. 

 Caps, roundish, with 3 rounded angles, or 3 lobes, 3 

 cells, and 3 valves with central partitions. Seeds few, 

 globose. 



Bulb coated, roundish. Leaves radical, linear. Cluster 

 stalked, many-flowered. Petals blue; varying by cul- 

 ture to white, red, or even yellow. Fl. in some sweet- 

 scented, in some fetid, or nauseous. The monopetalous 

 corolla distinguishes this genus from the last. Its species 

 are among themselves more discordant than those of 

 Scilla. 



