HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Anthericum. U9 



1. H. racemosus. Starch Hyacinth. 



Flowers ovate, with six furrows; the upper ones sessile 

 and abortive. Leaves hnear, channelled, flaccid. 



H. racemosus. Linn.Sp.Pl.4')D. Wilid. v.2.170. Conip.54. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 27. t.l03l. Curt. Mag. t. 122. Jacq. Austr. 1. 187. Bod. 

 Pempt.2\7.f. 



H. n. 1245. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 120. 



H. racemosus cseruleus minor juncifolius. Baith. Pin. 43. Rudb. 

 Elys. v.2.2D.f.7. 



H. botryoides caeruleus. Ger. Em. 1 18./. 



H. botryoides vulgaris. Lob. Ic. 107./. 



H. botryodes primus. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 181./. 



H. comosus minor. Dalech. Hist. 151 1./ 



In grassy fields, or among ruins. 



On a sandy soil at Cavenham, Suffolk. Rev. G. R. Leathes. Near 

 Newbury, Berks. Dr. Lamb. On the earthy ledge of the old 

 city wall, on the north side of Norwich, plentiful. 



Perennial. May. 



Bulb ovate, brown externally. Leaves many, deep green, flaccid, 

 and loosely spreading, linear, very narrow, about a span longj 

 channelled above ; semicylindrical at the back. Stalk solitary, 

 erect, round, much shorter than the leaves, often brownish. Clus- 

 ter ovate, dense, of numerous, little, drooping, dark \A\xe flowers, 

 whose tube is oval, their limb minute and whitish. Several of 

 the uppermost are pale, diminutive, and imperfect. Caps, with 

 3 rounded lobes. Seeds 2 in each cell. Thejlouiers smell like 

 wet starch, being equally disagreeable and oppressive to most 

 people ; causing head-ache and nausea to many. 



193. ANTHERICUM. Spiderwoit. 



Linn. Gen. 1 Q7 . Fl. Br. 367. Gcrrtn. t. 1 G. 

 Phalangium. Juss. 52. Tourn.t. \93. Latn. t. 240. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 190. 



Cal. none. Pet, 6, inferior, elliptic-oblong, spreading. Fi- 

 lam. thread-shaped, either naked or bearded, attached to 

 the petals. Anth. roundisli, versatile. Germ, inferior, 

 roundish, with 3 angles. Style thread-shaped, or partly 

 triangular, erect, permanent. Stigma obtuse. Caps. 

 roundish, with 3 angles, 3 cells, and 3 valves, with cen- 

 tral partitions ; abrupt, or concave, at the summit, and 

 crowned with the style. Seeds few, angular. 



Root tuberous, or fibrous. Stem simple, or branched. 

 Leaves simple, narrow, often radical only. Injlorescence 

 various, as well as the colour of the j^owtT5. Phalan- 

 gium of some authors, not of Haller, distinguished by its 

 naked filaments, may be a good genus, but the name. 



