6. lingrulatum. Baker (JT. Aucheri, var. IhifiiiHitum, 

 Boiss.l. Lvs. 3 lines wide: raceme ovate. Asia Minor. — 

 According to Index Kewensis this is a good species, but 



HUSCARI 



1041 





iiiositm viohiceum. It is apparent that he regards 

 nsum and its forms as varieties of M. commu- 



(Adapted fro: 



J. N. Gerard says the plant sold under this name is the 

 same as HijacintJius azureus. 



7. paraddxum, C. Koch. Lvs. 3, yi-% in. wide. Ar- 

 menia. 



8. cfinicum, Baker. Lvs. about 6, narrower: fls. violet- 

 blue. Habitat unknown. Gn. 51:1106 (?).-Van Tu- 

 bergen says fls. black-blue. 



9. mlcrintliiiin, Baker. Fls. bright violet. Habitat 



10. Szovitsiannm, Baker. Fls. bright blue, consider- 

 ably larger ( ^e in. across, but only 1-12 in. across in 

 M.micranthum). Persia, Caucasus. B.M. 6855. 



11. p411ens, Fisch. Lvs. numerous, filiform : scape 3-5 

 in. long: raceme r2-20-fld. : fls. white or nearly so. Cau- 

 casus, Iberia. 



12. racemdsum, Mill. Lvs. 5-6, 5-6 in. long, l-lj^ lines 

 thick: fls. odorous, dark blue. Mediterranean, Caucasus. 

 L.M. 122 (as HyacintJius rflce»i05«.s }.— Vars. carneum 

 and grandiflorum prcecox are offered. 



l.S. latiJdlium, J. Kirk. Lvs. always solitary, %-l in. 

 wide : sterile fls. 6-10, much paler than tlie others. 

 Phrygia. 



14. negl6ctnim, Guss. Lvs. numerous, S>-12 in. long, 

 l}^-2 lines thick : fls. odorous, dark blue. Mediterranean 

 region. Gn. 26:453. — This differs from M. commiitahim 

 and M.polyanthum in having the segfments of the peri- 

 anth triangular and reflexed. Jf. neglectum muUifloriim 

 and M. neglectum Atlanticum are trade names. See 

 supplementary list under If. Atlanticum. 



15. commutatum, Guss. Lvs. 5-6, 5-6 in. long, VA-2 

 lines wide: fls. odorless, dark blue: segments very short, 

 not recurved. Sicily.— Krelage advertises vars atro- 



compacius _ ^ 



fls. are nearly black, with whitish teeth which ar 



spreading-recurved. Baker places. 



orbicular, obtuse, 



M. compactum next to M. commutatum , in spite of the 

 fact that the original description says the fls. are obo- 

 vate. Baker adds that this M. compactum is the M. 

 neglectum of some authors in part. The plant in the 

 trade as M. compartum may be a variety of some common 

 species, since Van Tubergen says tlie fls. are pale blue. 



.1/. ArnTri, little ktiewTl U,t:niir;,llv i. .:,i.l t- 1„. ,•,.,■ ,1 



Hy.'iciiithns azureus, which in turn is refern 

 lu.lex Kewensis. Gn. 36:713. Van TubevL'. 

 var. .■uiu.hibolis {M. Freynlanum).— JIf. J/, f. 

 Van Tubeigen. 



\V. M. 



MUSfiNIUM (a name for fennel, another plant of this 

 family). UmbellUerce. Three species of resinous per- 

 ennial herbs in middle and western North America, 

 stemless or branching, decumbent or ascendin?. 2-12 in. 

 high. Lvs. pinnately decompound: fls. yell. ,w .n- wliite, 

 in compound umbels: fr. ovate or ovat... I.I. m-: iili< .".. 

 filiform, slightly prominent, with 2 or :; ..il ml,.^ in tlie 

 intervals. Coulter and Rose, Revision of X..rtli Ameri- 

 can Umbellifera;, 1888. 



trachysp^rmum, Nutt. {M. divaricAtum,va.T. Sodkeri,. 

 Torr. & Gray). Decumbent : lvs., except the radical, 

 opposite, bipinnatifld: fls. yellow: fr. scabrous. Spring. 

 Saskatchewan to the Upper Missouri, the Platte, and 

 S. W. Montana.— Procurable from dealers in western 

 native plants. 



MUSHKOOM. While the word Mushroom is now 

 often used as a general term for a large number of the 

 higher fungi, chiefly those belonging to the Agaricini, 

 it is by some limited to the common edible species in 

 cultivation and which also grows spontaneously in 



1439. Muscari botryoides (X 



lawns, pastures, etc. By others the word is employed 

 for all edible species, while toadstool is employed to 

 designate poisonous species; such persons usually 

 make an incorrect application of these terms to many 

 of the plants. The word is probably derived from the 



