30 Orn. 3. HvacrwTHEX. C1. 2. Coronarie. Liriogame. 
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more idle than what Sir J. E. Surra says relative to it; his words 
in English Botany are. ““ Petals perfectly distinet at their base. 
n with six sides, we agree with Dr. Withering and Mr. 
Relhan, that it is line e of the Honey pores, which make the cha- 
racter of Hyacinthus, So many authors have been at a loss to Jind 
D pores in any species of Hyacinthus, that the want of them 
tn this would hardl y justify the removing it to Scilla ; but the Corolla 
being of sia distinei. Petals, added to its perfect affinity with Campa- 
, which has oft 
upon entirely gain in his subsequent 
work of Flora ——— he — its“ id Petala persistentia ; ' Sta- 
mina filiformia, equalia ; Germen poris nectariferis plane destitutuy n." 
The Petals in this Genus, aa Se so pa from being distinet t 
completely aid by their discs, a very usual mode of cohesion dà 
all the three Cla ce : 
have I yet examined any Flower of Hyacinthus Non Scriptus L. in 
which the Ovarium was without three very eonspicuous Honey pores,. 
at the base of its dissepimental sinusses. A eee in the situ- 
ation of these Honey pores moreover, being pro probably in some degree 
connected with the foecundation of the Stigma, by forcing Insects 
to penetrate more or less into the Flower, and as far as my experience 
goes T samy by differences in other parts, they become characters 
e importance. 
widely from Scilla, as DRYANDER always contended, not in having 
“a solid Root” which Sir J. E. Surm again blunders in makin 
one of its specific characters, for the Bulb is truly tunicated in both 
but in its whole Habit, Peduncle coming up a little after the Tiari 
rac , 
Pedicel; Filaments d in two series considerably above the 
base of the Petals; and very materially in its Seeds, which are 
oleae and wrinkled after the they dry, not flat and winged. Somera 
