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horizontally from three-quarters of the way down. I strongly suspect 
that in all the three the size of the flower has been exaggerated, and the 
shape not carefully rendered. 
In * Icones Floree Germanieze ' Reiehenbach has plates of all the four 
species so called —1007 called cernua; one specimen, leaving foliage out 
of account, differs from our No. 1 only by its slightly longer flower ; 
another specimen is the same form, but white-flowered. 1008, called 
nutans, represents well our No. 2, but a blue flower by the side of the 
main figure represents fairly our No. 7. 1009, called patula, is like our 
No. 4, but smaller in size, with much narrower leaves, deeply channelled 
from the descriptions in the author's *Flora Exeursoria' that the names 
of 1007 aud 1008 have been accidentally transposed. Willkomm and 
Lange, who in their * Flora of the Spanish Peninsula’ admit three out of 
Kunth's four species, cite Reichenbach's 1007 for nutans, 1008 for cernua, 
and 1010 for campanulata. ; 
nelusion, I do not see that it is possible to draw any clear line of 
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' distinctness between the different members of the series, or to regard 
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no difficulty in identifying 1 and 2 with the Hyacinth of our English 
woods, In 20 years’ experience of specimens living and dried, I have 
never seen any Hyacinth wild in Britain that had not this shape of flower, 
in the lower half, and unequal filaments ; and the second, to be called Ais- 
anica or campanulata, with a shorter flower, spreading like the top of a 
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of intermediate specimens out of account. . I have entered into such full 
detail now because what happens with wood Hyacinths happens not un- 
frequently when we try to apportion out plants in the fields and gutes 
amongst the species that are described in books. A gardener who ha 
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year, side by side, under identical conditions of soil and treatmen 
deal with Seila nonscripla in the same way in which M. Jordan has lately 
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