GRAPE HYACINTHS 591 
Seapes 6 inches high, one-flowered (rarely two). Flowers pale lilac, 
i to 14 inch long; May. Also known as Milla uniflora. Plate 275. 
Brodicas require little more care than most bulbous 
, plants. They succeed best in a light, but rich, well-drained 
soil with a sunny aspect. Here they may be left undisturbed for 
several years, during which they will increase by offsets from the bulbs. 
They may also be propagated by sowing the seeds in sandy soil as soon 
as ripe. Brodieas make very pretty pot-plants for spring. decoration. 
Description of Brodica (Triteleia) uniflora, the Triplet Lily or Spring 
te 275. Starflower. Bulb, leaves, and flowers of the natural size. 
Fig. 1 is a section through the flower. 
Cultivation. 
GRAPE HYACINTHS 
‘Natural Order Lin1acea. Genus Muscarz 
Muscari (Latin, moschos, musk: suggested by the odour of the flowers). 
A genus of about forty species of hardy bulbous plants with slender 
radical leaves, and globose flowers in racemes. The mouth of the 
perianth is cleft into six lobes, the stamens are attached to the middle of 
the tube, and the ovary is egg-shaped, three-lobed, with a short style 
and simple stigma. The species are natives of Europe (1 British), North 
Africa, and Western Asia. 
- Grape Hyacinths have been in our gardens for over 
three hundred years—that is, leaving out of account our 
own native Muscari racemosum, which was probably not overlooked by 
our early gardeners. In the year 1596 there were growing in English 
gardens four species from Southern Europe and the Mediterranean 
Region: M. botryoides, M. comosum, M. macrocarpum, and M. mos- 
chatum. Not only so, but the curious monstrous form of M. comosuwm 
had also been introduced. MM. pallens, a white-flowered species, was 
introduced from the Caucasus in 1822, M. commutatum from Armenia 
in 1836, and M. Heldreichii from Greece in 1869. A number of others 
have been introduced, but in some cases the record of their native 
country has been lost, in others the date of their introduction. 
MUSCARI BOTRYOIDES (like a bunch of grapes). Scapes 
to 12 inches high. Leaves glaucous. Flowers deep 
sky-blue, the mouth-lobes white ; in a short, dense, globose cluster; April 
and May. The var. albwm has white flowers; the var. pallens pale 
blue flowers. 
History. 
Principal Species, 6 
