Pl.end.ph. 15. ASPHODELE^. lll..Hyacinthus. Hi 



HyacintJms nutans. Drooping hyacinth. 



Leaves flaccid, linear, shorter than the scape; raceme 

 before flowering drooping. 



Hyacintlius nutans, Ger.em. 99; Raii Syn. 373,8. 



Hyacinthns Anglicus, BeJgicus, vel Hispanicus, Park. Paradise^ 122.. 



Hyacintlius non-scriptus, Lin. S. P. 453. 



Hyacinthus pratensis, Lamarck Enc. Meth. 3, 190. 



Hyacinlhus cernuus, Thuill. Par. 2. 



Scilla nutans, Stokes Bot. Mat Med. 2, 248. 



Scilla festal is, Salisb. Prod. 242. 



English hyacinth. Harebells, 



Woods, hedges and pastures ; perennial ; May and June, 

 Bulbs large; leaves many, keeled; scape 18 in. high, 

 VL^v\^\t', flowers facing one way, fine-scented. — Roots when 

 fresh poisonous, may be converted into starch, or pre- 

 pared as a substitute for gum Arabic. 



^. alius. Flowers white. 



IV. 115. HONORIUS. Star of Naples. 



Perigonium 6-sepaled, connivent at bottom, spreading 

 at top, persisting; outer sepales herbaceous, inner petaloid; 

 stamens 6, unequal, inserted at the base of the lobes of the 

 perigonium ; filaments dilated, cohering, bellshape ; the 3 on 

 the outer sepales longer, 2-horned; style 3-sided, 3 -grooved; 

 stigma blunt; capsule ovate, 3-sided; seeds many, roundish; 

 hilum sunk, or not tubercular ; corculum central, curved, 

 half as long as the perisperm ; spermodermis simple. — BulO 

 tunicate ; leaves linear ; scape upright ; flowers racemose, 

 white, outside streaked with green ; peduncles alternate, 

 bracteate ; Iractece. slightly sheathing, single. 



Hotuorius nutans. Drooping star of Naples. 



Flowers racemose, facing one way, drooping ; leaves 

 strapshape, deep green, shorter than the scape; bractece 

 acute, shorter than the flowers. 



Ornithogalum Neapolitanum, Ger.em. 168,9. 

 Ornitlingalum nutans, Lin. S. P. 441. 

 Star-flower of Naples, Park. Paradise, 133. 



Fields and meadows ; perennial ; May. 

 Bidb ovate ; leaves pale, acute ; scape cylindrical j flowers 

 8 or 10, silvery white. 



V. 116. SCILLA. Squill. 



Perigonium 6-sepaled, spreading, falling off"; stamens 6 ; 

 filaments simple, threadshape, smooth, inserted at the bot- 

 tom of the sepales ; stigma obtuse ; capsule obtuse, 3-sided; 



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