LILIACEX. 2038 
of its subspecies, and his M. botryoides is M. racemosum, D.C.; but 
Miller’s specific names (arising from his misunderstanding Hyacinthus 
racemosus and H. botryoides of Linneus) have not been adopted 
by subsequent writers. 
Starch Hyacinth. 
French, Muscari & grappe. German, Traubige Bisamhyacinthe. 
This plant is often called the Hyacinth erroneously, but may be easily distin- 
guished from it, although flowering about the same time. The original Hyacinth 
was a name given by the ancient Greeks to the flower which was said to have sprung 
from the blood of the beloved of Apollo, when slain by the rival Zephyrus. The 
Starch Hyacinth has a cluster of small dark blue flowers, almost like little grapes ; 
hence it is sometimes called the Grape Hyacinth. It smells of wet starch; hence the 
English name. The roots of this plant, and also those of the Hyacinth, are poisonous. 
GENUS XV.—ALLIUM. Linn. 
Perianth coloured, widely funnelshaped or cupshaped or connivent 
or bellshaped; perianth leaves 6, free or combined at the base, sub- 
persistent, spreading or connivent, without a nectariferous pore at 
the base, the outer leaves not herbaceous on the back. Stamens 
6, adhering to the base of the perianth leaves; filaments frequently 
monadelphous, or the three inner ones 3-cuspidate; anthers affixed 
by their back to the filaments, extrorse. Style filiform; stigma 
minute, entire, very rarely 3-lobed. Capsule trigonous or triquetrous, 
often depressed at the apex, loculicidally 3-valved, 3-celled or 1-celled, 
sometimes adhering to the perianth at the base. Seeds 1 or 2 in each 
cell of the capsule, triquetrous or compressed-triquetrous, more rarely 
subglobose; testa hard, black, usually rugose when dry. 
Herbs with tunicated bulbs, and radical leaves which sometimes 
sheath the scape so as to be pseudo-cauline: the upper and under 
surfaces of the leaves often more or less separated, so that they are 
fistulous or subfistulous. Scape terminated by an umbel of flowers 
of various colours; flower buds enclosed in a 1- or 2-valved more or 
less membranous spathe. Bulbs free or adhering to a creeping 
thickened rhizome. 
The name of this genus comes from the Greek word adéw, to avoid, because of its 
offensive smell. 
Section L—PORRUM. Don. 
Destitute of a creeping rhizome. Stem apparently leafy, from 
the leafsheaths surrounding it. Stamens free; filaments of the 3 
interior stamens flattened, split at the apex into 3 subulate cusps, of 
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