424 LILIACEAE. 
2. Ornithogalum nutans I, Droop- 
ing Star-of-Bethlehem. 
(Fig. 1020.) 
Ornithogalum nutans I,. Sp. Pl. 308. 1753. 
Bulb ovoid, 1’-2’ long. Scape stout, 1°-2° 
high; leaves usually equalling the scape or 
longer, blunt, 2’’-4’’ wide; flowers several or 
numerous, racemose, nodding; raceme 3/—S’ 
long, loose; pedicels stout, 2/’-6’ long; 
bracts lanceolate, long-acuminate, much 
longer than the pedicels, often as long as the 
flowers; perianth-segments thin, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, about 1’ long and 4’ wide, nearly 
twice as long as the stamens; filaments broad, 
flat, 2-toothed at the apex. 
Escaped from gardens in eastern and southern 
Pennsylvania. Native of Europe. April-May. 
The bulbs of this and other species have for cen- 
turies past been a portion of the food of Italy, 
the Levant, and other parts of the Old World. 
12. MUSCARI Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 7. 17509. ° 
Low bulbous scapose herbs, with basal linear fleshy leaves, and nodding bracted race- 
mose flowers, deep blue (rarely white) in the following species. Bulbs membranous-coated. 
Perianth globose, urn-shaped, or oblong, with 6 teeth or short lobes, tardily deciduous. 
Stamens 6, inserted on the perianth-tube, included; anthers ovate, versatile, introrse. Ovary 
3-celled, sessile; ovules 2 in each cavity; style short; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 3-sided or 3- 
winged, usually 6-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds black, angled. [From the musk-like odor of 
the flowers of some species. ] 
About 4o species, natives of Europe, Asia and Africa. 
Perianth globose, 1/’-114'’ in diameter; leaves erect. 1. M. botryoides. 
Perianth oblong, urn-shaped, 2’’—3'’ long; leaves recurved. 2. M. racemosum., 
1. Muscari botryoides (I.) Mill. Grape-Hyacinth. (Fig. 1o21.) 
Hyacinthus botryoides 1,. Sp. Pl. 318. 1753. 
Muscari botryoides Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, no. 1. 
1768. 
Bulb 1’ high or less. Scape 4/-10’ high; 
leaves about as long as the scape, erect or 
nearly so, 1//-4’’ wide, channeled, blunt or 
acutish; raceme oblong-cylindric, 1/-114’ long, 
dense, or becoming longer and looser in fruit; 
pedicels shorter than the faintly odorous flowers; 
bracts very short; perianth globose, 1//-134’’ in 
diameter, 6-toothed, the teeth white, recurved; 
valve of the capsule obovate. 
In meadows and thickets and along roadsides, 
escaped from gardens, Massachusetts to Ohio and 
Virginia. Naturalized or adventive from southern 
Europe. Native also of Asia. April-June. 
