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outer filaments adnate to the three outer perianth leaves for the 
greater part of their length. 
In woods, hedgebanks, shady places, and in damp pastures and 
meadows. Common, and generally distributed, but absent from 
Sutherland, Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. Frequent in Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring, 
early Summer. 
Bulb deeply buried, flowering when about the size of a filbert, but 
sometimes as large as a small apricot, roundish, yellowish-white. 
Leaves spreading, 6 inches to 1 foot or more long, the longer ones 
nearly 1 inch broad, deep green. Scape 9 to 18 inches high or more. 
Raceme 3 to 8 inches long. Flowers erect in bud, but drooping when 
they expand, again erect in fruit. Perianth leaves nearly $ inch long, 
varying from pale to dark purplish-blue, occasionally white, and in 
gardens pink. Capsule ovate-subglobular, } to # inch long. Seeds 
black, globular and smooth when fresh, rugose when dry, about the 
size of mustard-seed. 
Wood Hyacinth. 
French, Scille penchée. German, Sternhyacinthe. 
GENUS XIV.-MUSCARI.* Tournef. 
Perianth coloured, monophyllous, ovoid or globose or cylindrical, 
urceolate, very shortly 6-toothed at the apex. Stamens 6, inserted on 
the tube of the perianth. Style filiform ; stigma minute, trigonous. 
Capsule triquetrous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds few, globose; testa 
hard, black, rugose when dry. 
Herbs with tunicated bulbs and linear, semicylindrical or channelled 
radical leaves. Scape bearing racemose flowers which are generally 
blue or yellowish-olive; the uppermost flowers often sterile. 
The name of this genus comes from the Greek word pdéoxoc, musk, a smell yielded 
by some species. 
SPECIES I-MUSCARI RACEMOSUM. D.C. 
Prare MDXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLVI. Fig. 999. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 176. 
M. neglectum, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 347 (non Guss. nec Alior.), 
Hyacinthus racemosus, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1931. 
Botryanthus odorus, Kunth, Enum. Pl. Vol. TV. p. 311. Parl. Fl. Ital. Vol. TIT. p. 501. 
Bulb producing numerous minute bulbules at the base. Leaves very 
* The separation of this genus and Bellevalia from Hyacinthus, Linn., is unnatural. 
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