142 HEXANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. lAsparaffUS. 



scarcely corymbose, bracteas none, pedicels and stamens about 

 as long as the perianth, leaves linear several. E. Bot. t. 78. 



Dry pastures and rocks, in Cornwall, and near Bristol. ISIoulsey 

 Hurst, Rdi/. Blackheath and ilichmond, abundant. Flag-post-liill, Tor- 

 quay. Jersey. Fl. Sept. "U. — F/o/rers pinkish-purple, in perfection be- 

 fore the leaves appear. E. A. Warren. 



12. Hyacinthus. Linn. Hyacinth. 



1. H. non-scriptus, L. (^wild Hijacinth or Blue-hell); flowers 

 in a raceme drooping, perianth 6- partite the extremities reflex- 

 ed, bracteas in pairs. — Scilla nuCaiis, E. Bot. t. 377. 



Woods, copses, and hedg-e-rows ; varying with white and more rarely 

 rose-coloured /?oire?-s. Fl. ]\Iay. If. — Leaves long, linear, channelled, 

 acuminate. Scape 1 f. high, with 2 hracteas at the base of each short 



pedicel The habit of this plant is surely more that of H. orientalis 



than of any true Scilla. 



13. MuscARi. Town. Grape-Hyacinth. 



1. M.* race)7i6sum, Mill. (Starch Grape- Hi/acintk); flowers 

 crowded ovate upper ones sessile, leaves linear flaccid keeled 

 longer than the scape. — H//acint/ncs, L — E. Bot. t. 1931. 



Grassy fields, &c. Fl. May. If . — Flowers deep blue, smelling like 

 starch. 



14. Antheri(;u3I. Lhm. Spider-wort. 



1. A.ser6tinum,,h. (^mountain Spider-wort); leaves semi-cylin- 

 drical, caulineones dilated at their base, flowers mostly solitary. 

 E. Bot. t. 793. 



Rare, on the Welsh mountains. On Snowdon, Crib y Ddescil, near 

 Llanberis ; and Cwm Idwel, Caernarvonshire, {E. Fl.) " On Snowdon, 

 as well as on rocks by TwU dii, and near the summit of Glyder Fawr ; 

 all neighbouring, but distinct situations." 3Ir W. Wilson. Fl. June. 

 1^. — 4 — 6 inches high. " Fhnoer-stalk invested with its own sheath and 

 separated by an elongation of the root from the leaves, of which the most 

 distant encloses within its fleshy base the rudiment of the plant of the fol- 

 lowing season. The plant is increased by offsets or creeping shoots with 

 a bulb at the extremity, the point of the bulb directed towards the parent 

 root. Perianth permanent, withering : its segments nectariferous. Sta- 

 mens not attached to the perianth, beardless. The lateral ribs at the 

 back of the leaf are one on each side of the keel, not ' of the leaf.' Two- 

 flowered specimens are very unfrequcnt." W. Wilson. 



15. Asparagus. Linn. Asparagus. 



1. A. officinalis, L. (common Asparagus); unarmed, stem her- 

 baceous mostly erect rounded very much branched, leaves seta- 

 ceous fasciculate flexible, peduncles jointed in the middle. E. 

 Bot. t. 339. — /3. procumbent. 



In several parts of the south, and sonth-west coasts of England. On 

 an island, thence called "Asparagus Island," Kynance Cove, Cornwall. 

 Links near Gosford, Scotland. — /3. sonth-west coast of Anglesea, rare. 

 Mr W. Wilson. Fl. Aug. '^■. — Root creeping, throwing up numerous 

 seal}' erect stems, which, when cultivated, form the Asparagus of our 



