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outer filaments arlnate to the three outer perianth leaves for the 

 greater part of their length. 



In woods, hedgebanks, shady places, and in damp pastures and 

 meadows. Common, and generally distributed, but absent from 

 Sutherland, Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. Frequent in Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Spring, 

 early Sunxmer. 



Bulb deeply buried, flowering when about the size of a filbert, but 

 sometimes as large as a small apricot, roundish, yellowish-white. 

 Leaves spreading, 6 inches to 1 foot or more hmg, the longer ones 

 nearly 1 inch broad, deep green. Scape 9 to 18 inches high or more. 

 Raceme 3 to 8 inches long. Flowers erect in bud, but drooping when 

 they expand, again erect in fruit. Perianth leaves nearly f inch long, 

 varpng from pale to dark purplish-blue, occasionally white, and in 

 gardens pink. Capsule ovate- subglobular, |^ to |^ inch long. Seeds 

 black, globular and smooth when fresh, rugose when drj', about the 

 size of mustard-seed. 



Wood Hyacinth. 

 French, ScUle jpenchee. German, Stemhyacintlie. 



GENUS XIV.— -^l U S C A R I.* Toumef. 



Perianth coloured, monophyllous, ovoid or globose or cylindrical, 

 urceolate, very shortly 6 -toothed at the apex. Stamens 6, inserted on 

 the tube of the perianth. Style filiform ; stigma minute, trigonous. 

 Capsule triquetrous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds few, globose; testa 

 hard, black, rugose when dry. 



Herbs with tunicated bulbs and linear, semicylindrical or channelled 

 radical leaves. Scape bearing racemose flowers which are generally 

 blue or yellowish-olive ; the uppermost flowers often sterile. 



The name of this genus comes from the Greek word fuca-^oc, musk, a smell yielded 

 by some species. 



SPECIES I— MUSCARI R ACEMOSUM. B.O. 

 Plate MDXXIX. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLVI. Fig. 999. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 176. 



M. neglectum. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 347 (non Guss. nee Alior.'). 



Hyacinthus racemosns, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1931. 



Botryanthus odorus, Kunth, Enmn. PI. Vol. IV. p. 311. Pari. Fl. Ital. Vol. DT. p. 501. 



Bulb producing numerous minute bulbules at the base. Leaves very 



• The separation of this genus and Bellevalia from Hyacinthus, Linn., Ls unnatural. 

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