J02 HEXAND. MONOG. 



^g? Iwfrg p the perianth ovato-acuminate bearded at the ex- 

 tremity, stam. hairy at the base, stigma obtuse. E. B. t. 63. 

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



Apr. 11. 



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

 lanceolate. 



5. ORNITHOGALUM. 

 * Flowers yellow. 



1. O. luteum (yellow 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. ISO. E. B. t. 21. 



HAB. Woods, Sibbald. Side of a rivulet near Auchtertool, and in the 

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

 lin, Mr. Sh'tllinglaw . Woods at Cortachy castle, N. of Forfar, in 

 abundance, and truly wild, D. Don. Fl. March, Apr. 7/ . 



Plant scarcely exceeding 6 inches in height, with one long, radical, 

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

 ones from the top of the stalk. 



'** Flowers white or greenish. 



2. Q.umlellatum (common Star of Bethlehem], flowers in a 

 corymbus, peduncles longer than the bracteas, filaments su- 

 bulate. E. B. t. 730. 



HAB. Near Glasgow, Mr. Stark. Introduced into Britain. Fl. Apr. 

 May. I/, 



Eight to ten inches high. Leaves 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. 

 1. H. non scriptus (wild Hyacinth or Hare-lell} 9 raceme cer- 



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



p. 182. E. B. t. 377 (Scilla nutans). 

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



of the river opposite Logton wood, by Dalkeith, Light/. Common 



about Glasg., Hopk. white t ft. Banks' of the Clyde opposite Dal' 



dowie, Hopk. Fl. May. i/ . 

 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 Hijac'mthiis orientalis, &c. ; but the perianth is much more 



deeply divided. 



7. SCILLA. 







1. S. verna (vernal Squill}) root solid, corymb hemispherical 



