522 Liliacee—Ornithogalui. 
Perianth-segments white, with a green midrib. April and 
May. 
4.0. pyramidile.—A tall species about 2 feet high with 
linear flaccid leaves and dense racemose flowers. Flowers 
white, with a green stripe on each petal; bracts white. A 
native of the South of Europe, flowering in Summer. 
O. atirewm is a beautiful South African species with long 
spikes of bright yellow flowers, but it requires slight pro- 
tection in Winter. 5 
17. MUSCART. 
A South European and Asiatic genus of bulbous herbs. 
Leaves appearing with the flowers; the latter in racemes, deep 
blue or white, or greenish blue. the terminal ones very often 
abortive. Perianth small, tubular, globose, often constricted at 
the mouth, with small reflexed lobes, segments more or less 
united. Stamens in two series, inserted in the tube of the 
perianth ; filaments slender or dilated, scarcely exceeding the 
anthers. Capsule sessile, with 1 or 2 seeds in each ceil. The 
name is from the Latin moschus, musk, in allusion to the smell 
of the flowers of some species. The name Grape Hyacinth is 
applied indiscriminately to any of the species. 
1. M. comisum var. monstrosuim.—A very remarkable and 
abnormal plant in which the inflorescence is transformed into 
a dense tuft of slender ramifications of a dark vivlet-blue. 
Southern Europe. The normal variety is an unattractive plant 
and rarely grown, 
2. M. racemosum.—This has become naturalised in some 
parts of England. It is a dwarf plant with linear stiff fleshy 
leaves from 6 to 12 inches high. Scape rather shorter, with a 
dense terminal raceme of small dark-b'ue flowers ultimately 
changing to a reddish purple, and tipped with white in some 
varieties. It flowers in Spring. 
3. AM. botryvides.—This is one of the handsomest of the 
genus, growing about 8 or 10 inches high. Leaves linear, 
channelled, glaucous. Flowers in a very dense short spike, deep 
blue tipped with white, sky-blue and white, or wholly white. 
A native of Southern Europe flowering in Spring. 
A. Heldreichit is a very beautiful species with much larger 
fluwers and linear flat leaves; A. commutatum is near MW, race- 
mosum, but the leaves are flaccid; If, moschatum has very 
sweet-scented though small vreenish-yellow flowers tinged with 
blue, or wholly blue; M. liéewm is a pretty species with large 
