i02 HEXAND. MONOG. 



ing, leaves of the perianth ovato- acuminate bearded at the ex- 

 tremity, stam. hairy at the base, stigma obtuse. E. B. t. G3. 

 Hab. Field near Hamilton, Mr. Murray. Near Brechin, G. Don. Fl, 



Apr. H . 

 Flowers yellow, fragrant. Anthers and pollen yellow. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate. 



5. ORNITHOGALUM. 

 * Floicers yellow. 



1. O. luteum {ijellow Star of Bethlehem), stem angular bearing 

 two leaves (immediately below the umbel), flower-stalks form- 

 ing an umbel undivided glabrous, leaves of the perianth lan- 

 ceolate. Light/. p. 1 80. E. B.t.2\, 



Hab. Woods, Sihbald. Side of a rividet near Auchtertool, and in the 

 Den of Forret, 4 m. from Cupar, Fifeshire, Maugh. Near Dxipp- 

 lin, Mr. SIMhiglaic. V.'oods at Cortachy castle, N. of Forfar, in 

 abundance, and truly wdd, D. Don. Fl. March, Apr. 1/ . 



Plant scarcely exceeding u inches in height, with one long, radical, 

 broadly linear, acuminate leaf, and two unequal but much smaller 

 ones from the top of the stalk. 



* •<■ Floicers white or greenish. 



2. O.umhellatnm {common Star of Bethlehem), flowers in a 

 corymbusj peduncles longer than the bracteas, filaments su- 

 bulate. E. B. t, 730. 



Hab. Near Glasgow, Mr. Stark. — Introduced into Britain. H. Apr. 

 May. %. 



Eight to ten inches high. L^'r/re-s linear, acuminate, grooved. Flowers 

 large, few, 6 — 9, lower stalks very long, so that their flowers are 

 of the same height as the upper ones, thus forming a corymbus, 

 each having at the base a membranous lanceolate bractea. Seg- 

 ments of the perianth green, with a white margin, and white within. 



6. HYACINTHUS. 



I. H. mm scriptus {wild Hyacinth or Hare-hell), raceme cer- 

 nuous, perianth sex-partite the extremities revolute. Lightf. 

 p. 182. E.B. t. ^11 {Scilla nutans). 



Hab. Woods not unfrequent, as in Coryton woods, and on the S. side 

 of the river opposite Logton wood, by Dalkeith, Lightf. Common 

 about Glasg., Hopk. white Jl. Banks of the Clyde opposite Dal- 

 dowie, Hopk. Fl. May. 2/ . 



Leaves long, linear, channelled, acuminate. Scape 1 f. high. Flower 

 large, purple, with two bracteas at the base of each short pedicel. 

 Mr. Hopkirk mentions a var. with many long green bracteas to each 

 flower, found in Bothwell woods. — The habit is very much that of 

 the true Hyacinthus orientalis, &c. ; but the perianth is much more 

 deeply divided. 



7. SCILLA. 



1 . S. verna {vernal Squill), root solidj corymb hemispherical 



