Hyacinthus 



HYACINTHUS 



HYACINTHUS 

 HYACINTHUS 

 HYACINTHUS 

 HYACINTHUS 



HYACINTHUS 



non scriptus. English Hyacinth. 



Linnai Gen. PL Hexandria Monogynia* 



Cor. campanulata : pori 3 melliferi germinis* 

 Rati Syn. Gen. 26. Herb^: radice bulbosa prjeditje. 



non fcriptus corollis campanulatis, fexpartitis, apice revolutis. Lin. Syft. Veget. p. 276. 

 oblongo flore coeruleus major. Bauhin Pin. 43. 

 anglicus. Gerard, emac. in. 



anglicus belgicus vel hifpanicus. Parkin/on. Par ad. 122. Rati Syn. p. ^Z-> Englifh 

 Hyacinth, or Hare-bells. 



non fcriptus, Hyacinth. Diofcoridis. Dod. Ludg. 



Hud/on. Fl. Angl. 123. ed. 2. p. 141. Lightfoot. Fl. Scot. p. 183. 



RADIX: bulbus fubrotundus, magnitudine nucis my- 

 rifticae, candidus, fucco vifcido repletus, ex 

 ima parte plurimas fibrillas albidas dimittens. 



SCAPUS nudus, femipedalis aut pedalis, ere&us, teres, 

 lsevis, folidus. 



FOLIA quatuor, fex, interdum plura, fcapo duplo 

 breviora, femunciam lata, carinata, concava, 

 laevia, nitida. 



FLORESo&o ad duodecem ; faspe plures, odorati, coe- 

 rulei aut violacei, rarius carnei aut albi, fpi- 

 cati, fecundi, nutantes. 



BRACTE^E binae, fubere&ae, lanceolate, fig. i„ 



ROOT a roundifh bulb, the fize of a nutmeg, of a 

 white colour, and full of a vifcid juice, fend- 

 ing down from the bottom numerous whitifh 

 fibres. 



STALK naked, from half a foot to a foot in height, 

 upright, round, fmooth, and iolid. 



LEAVES four, fix, fometimes more, twice as fhort 

 astheftalk, about half an inch broad, keeled, 

 hollow, fmooth, and fhining. 



FLOWERS from eight to twelve, often more, fweet 

 fmelling, of a blue or violet colour, feldom 

 flefh coloured or white, growing in a fpike, 

 all one way, and hanging down. 



FLORAL-LEAVES two to each flower, lanceolate, 

 and nearly upright, Jig. 1 . 



tis, fig. 



STAMINA : Filament a fex, tria longiora tubum 

 corolla aequantia, inferne corollae adnata, fu- 

 perne libera, fetacea, albida : Antherje e- 

 re£tae, incumbentes, fubfagittatae, flavefcen- 

 tes, fig. 4. 



PISTILLUM : Germen conicum, angulato-fulcatum, 

 albidum : Stylus corolla brevior, apice vio- 

 laceus : Stigma obtufum, villofum, fig. 5. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula triquetra, trilocularis, 

 trivalvis, valvis ovatis, mucronatis, fig. 6. 



COROLLA fubcylindracea, fexpartita, laciniis revolu- % COROLLA almoft cylindrical, divided into fix feg- 



ments, the tips of which turn back, fig. 2, 3. 



STAMINA: fix Filaments, the three longeft of 

 which equal the tube of the corolla, below at- 

 tached to the corolla, above free from it, ta- 

 pering, and whitifh : Anthers upright, in- 

 cumbent, fomewhat arrow-fhaped, of a yel 

 lowifh colour, fig. 4. 



PISTILLUM: Germen conical, angular and grooved, 

 of a whitifh colour : Style fhorter than the 

 corolla, at top of a blueifh colour : Stigma 

 blunt and villous, fig. 5. 



SEED-VESSEL : a three-cornered Capsule, of three 

 cavities and three valves, the valves oval, and 

 terminating in a fhort point, fig. 6. 



SEMINA plurima, violacea, nitida, fubrotunda, fig.y. | SEEDS numerous, of a fine blue colour, and roundifh 



¥ fliape, with a polifhed furface, fig. 7. 



THE Hyacinth is confidered by the Dutch Florifts, as the firft of flowers, and as fuch ranks in their catalogues; 

 in one of which, viz. that of Meffrs. Voorhelm and Schneevogt, of Haerlem, for the year 1778, the Gloria So/is 

 is marked at a 1000 guilders, eleven of which make one pound fterling. 



The fpecies which is the objecl of fo much care and cultivation, and from whence fuch numerous and beautiful 

 varieties are produced, is not our Englifh Hyacinth, but the Hyacinthus oriental's ofLiNNJEUs: neverthelefs, the 

 prefent fpecies is often to be met with in gardens, though in a ftate not much improved, being generally fingle, 

 and retaining its character of drooping flowers, by which character it is obvioufly diftinguifhed from a plant very- 

 fimilar to it, which is much more common in gardens, and flowers at the fame time ; a plant overlooked by 

 LiNNiEus ; but named by Mr. Banks Scilla campamdata. 



Our meadows, woods, and hedge-rows, are beautifully decorated with the blofToms of this plant in the fprin? 

 months. Its feeds are not ripened till the end of the year ; and thofe, on being fown, did not vegetate till the 

 fecond year. 



The term of non fcriptus was applied to this plant by fome of the earlier! botanifts, as may be feen in Bauhin s 

 Pinax, and Rays Hifi. Plant, and implies, that the flowers were not marked with any kind of character, which 

 the Hyacinth of the antients is fuppofed to have been, vid. Bauh. Pin. p. 47. and Rati. Hift. p. 1155. 



The great uncertainty in which the antients have left us, by their vague and imperfedT: deicriptions, appears in a 

 ftrong light, by what can be collected from their writings concerning the Hyacinth Flower. Since the revival 

 of letters, commentators and botanifts, have taken great pains to afcertain the plant which the antient poets and 

 naturalifts called by this name ; but with what fuccefs, may be eafily gathered, when we find them feverallv fixing 

 upon flowers of fuch very different appearances as the Martagon, Larkfpur> and Iris, for the true Hyacinth. 



