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stalks. — Although the specific name planifolium is the oldest, it is 

 scarcely applicablej and we therefore adopt that which was retained 

 \ for the plant when removed from the genera with which it had been 

 associated. 



*** Root bulbous. Fruit dry, capsular. Flowers usually on a 



leafless stem or scape and with membranaceous bracteas or 

 spathas^ but no true leaves^ at the base of the pedicels 

 H\ • which are not j ointed with the flower. Ovules numerous m 



6-1 each cell of the ovary. Seeds with a black crustaceous 



^'i\ ' shining coat Scillese. (Gen. 6— 10.) 



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6. A^GKAPHis Link. Blue-bell. ! 



Perianth 6-partlte; sepals coimivcnt below and forming a 



^ [ campanulate tube, somewhat connected at the base, recurved at 

 ta[ the extremity. Stamens 6, inserted below the middle of the 



perianth, on which the filaments are decurrent ; alternate ones 



longer and somewhat exserted. Capsule obtusely 3-angled, 3- 



celled, 3-valved at the apex, few-seeded. — Flowers racemose^ 



ivith membranaceous bracteas at the base of the pedicels. — N^amed 



from a, not^ and ypa(j)0)^ to write or ma?^ these plants being 



supposed by some to be the flowers noticed by Virgil ^ whereon 



.were inscribed the names of kings, but wliicb now exhibit 



nothing resembling written characters ; and also because the 



' genus Hyacinthus was named after the youth Hyacinthus, who, 



.being killed by Apollo, was by him changed into a plant, whose 



foliage bore in dark streaks the initials of his name : the A. 



nutans being placed by Linnaeus in that genus, and having no 



mark or figure on the leaf, was hence called H. non-scriptus^ 



which specific name is the same as Agraphis. 



1. A. nutans Link (wild Hyacinth or B^ ; flowers in a raceme 

 ill \ *• drooping, sepals revolute at the points, bracteas in pairs, leaves 

 ire. I hnear. Scilla Sm. : E. B. t. 377. Hyacinthus nbn-scriptus i. 



Woods, copses, and hedge-rows; varying with white and more 

 rarely rose-coloured flowers. 11 , 4 — 6. — Leaves long, linear, chan- 



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nelled, acuminate. Scape 1 foot high, with two bracteas at the base 

 of each short pedicel — The habit of this plant is surely more that 

 of Hyac. orientalis than of any true Scilla, 



"^j 7. MuscARi Tourn. Grape-Hyacinth. 



ilif \ Perianth inferior, of 1 piece, globose or subcylindrical, con- 

 ate [ tracted at the mouth, 6-toothed. Filaments very short, not 



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iC' ^ " I>ic quibus in terris inscripti nomina regum 



[■t Nascuntur flores/*— K/?-^. Eel. iii. lOG. 



Gladiolus communis or Fritiliaria Meleagris corresponds better to this descrip 



decurrent on the perianth, inflated, 6-toothed. Capsule tri- 



