HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Leucojum. 129 



tubular, membranous, cloven bractea^ the sheath {spatha) 

 of Linnaeus. Only 1 species. 



1. G. nivalis. Common Snowdrop. 



G. nivalis. Linn. Sp. PL 413. fVilld. v. 2. 29. Fl.Br.352. Engl. 



Bot. V. 1. t. 19. Abbot 73. Hook. Land. t. 14. Scot. 100. Hopk. 



Glott,44. Meyrick Misc. Bot. t.2. Jacq. Austr.t.3\3. 

 G. n. 1254. Hall.Hisl. v. 2. 124. 

 Leucoium bulbosum prsecox minus. Ger. Em. 147./. 

 L. bulbosum trifolium minus. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 96./. 4. Pass. Hort. 



florid. t.4.d. 

 Narcissus sextus. Matth. T'algr. v. 2. 583./. Catner. Epit. 956./. 



Dalech. Hist. 1525. /. 

 HpxyysKta. Renealm. Spec. 97. t. 96. 



In meadows, orchards, woods, hedges, and on the banks of rivers. 



At the foot of the Malvern hills. Mr. Ballard. On the banks of 

 the Tees, about Blackwell and Conniscliffe, certainly wild. Mr. 

 E. Robson. In Bedfordshire. Abbot. On banks about Castle- 

 milk, plentifully ; introduced. Hopkirk. In Arniston woods, 

 Edinburgh, covering acres of ground ; Mr. Maughan and Mr. 

 Shuter. Hooker. 



Perennial. February. 



Bulb ovate, scarcely an inch long, acrid, white, with many simple 

 fibres. Leaves glaucous, keeled, erect, obtuse, their bases in- 

 closed in one common tubular, membranous, radical stipula. 

 Stalk 3 or 4 inches high, round, at length overtopped by the 

 gradually increasing, finally decumbent, leaves. Flower scent- 

 less, pendulous, on a slender, terminal, drooping, partial stalk, 

 from the tubular base of a membranous, double-ribbed, forked 

 bractea. Pe^aZs pure white; the 3 innermostwith a green blotch 

 near the top, at the outside, and striated with green internally. 



So common in gardens, that it is supposed to have escaped from 

 thence ; but many persons esteem it really a native. Ray and 

 Dilleniue indeed omitted the Snowdrop in their catalogues ; but 

 the question how far they were right or wrong can scarcely be 

 determined, and the late Mr. Robson's opinion is one of the most 

 weighty against them. A double-flowered variety is generally 

 cultivated ; and a broad-leaved one from Constantinople is ex- 

 hibited in Gerarde's Herbal. 



185. LEUCOJUM. Snowflake. 



Li7m. Gen. 160. Juss. 55. FZ. Br. 352. Lam. Z. 230. 

 Narcissoleucoium. Tourn. t. 208. A, D — F. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 184. 



Cal. none. Pet. 6, regular, nearly equal, ovate, rather con- 

 cave, spreading moderately in the form of a bell ; com- 

 bined at the base ; somewhat thickened, and contracted, 



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