Leucojum ^Estivum. Summer Snowflake. 



LEUCOJUM Lin. Gen. PL Hexandria Monogynia. 



Cor. campaniformis, 6-partita, apicibus incraflata. Stigma fimplex. 



Rati Syn. Gen. 26. Herb.e radice bulbosa pr^edit^:. 



LEUCOJUM ajlivum fpatha multiflora, ftylo clavato. Lin. Syft. Vegetal?, p. 316. Sp. PL p. 414. 

 Jacquin Fl. Aujir. t. 203. v. 4. 



LEUCOJUM cejlivum. Scopoli Fl. Cam. n. 393. 



LEUCOJUM bulbofum majus f multiflorum. Bauh. Pin. 55. 



LEUCOJUM bulbofum ferotinum majus 1. Cluf. hijl. 1. p. 170. 



LEUCOION bulbofum polyanthemum. Dodon. Stirp hijl, p. 230. The great late flowering 

 Bulbous Violet. Park. Par ad. p. 110. 



RADIX : Bulbus magnitudine nucis caftaneae, fub- J> ROOT : a Bulb the fize of a chefnut, fomewhat ovate, 

 ovatus, extus pallide fufcus, intus albus, | externally of a pale brown colour, internally 



tunicatus, lamellis plurimis, tenuibus, denfe white, coated, the, coats numerous, thin, 



compacts. | and clofely compared. 



FOLIA plurima, fefquipedalia, ere&a, fublinearia, § LEAVES numerous, about a foot and a half in 

 faturate viridia, unciam fere lata, obtufa, | length, upright, nearly linear, of a deep 



fuperne plana, inferne leviter carinata, ca-, Q green colour, almoft an inch in breadth, 



rina obtufa, exteriora breviora. | obtufe, above flat, beneath (lightly keeled, 



$ the keel obtufe, the lowermoft leaves fliorteft. 



SCAPUS foliis paulo altior, multiflorus, fiftulofus, | STALK a little higher than the leaves, fupporting 



fubcompreffus, anceps, fubtortuofus, uno § many flowers, hollow, flightly flattened, 



latere nonnunquam obtufo, altero acuto. <> two-edged, a little twifted, one fide fome- 



| times obtufe, the other acute. 



PEDUNCULI plerumque quinque ex eadem fpatha, <> FLOWER-STALKS for the mod part five proceed- 

 uniflori, angulati, longitudine inasquales. $ ing from the fame fheath, each fupporting 



<£ a fingle flower, angular, and of unequal 



I lengths. 



FLORES albi, penduli, fecundi, vix odori. <> FLOWERS white, pendulous, growing all one way, 



$ with little fcent. 



COROLLA campaniformi-patens, Petala fex, ovata, <> COROLLA fomewhat bell-fhaped, fpreading, Petals 



alba, intus ftriata, ban* minime cohserentia, | fix, ovate, white, finely grooved within 



apicibus crafliufculis, ftrictioribus, macula <!> fide, not at all uniting at bottom, tips 



viridi infignitis. <j[ thickifh, a little puckered, and marked with 



a green fpot. 



STAMINA: Filamenta fex, alba, filiformia : An- <> STAMINA fix white, thread-lhaped Filaments: 

 ther^e oblongae, fubquadrangulares, ereclas, | Anthers oblong, fomewhat quadrangular, 



lutea?, apice porisduobusdehifcentesj^.i^. <> upright, yellow, each cell open at top, 



1 fig- U 2. 



PISTILLUM : Germen fubovatum, inferum : Sty- <> PISTILLUM Germen fomewhat ovate, beneath; 



lus albus, ftaminibus paulo longior, in- | Style white, a little longer than the fta- 



ferne attenuatus, fuperne virefcens ; Stigma q mina, tapering downwards, above greenifh; 



breve, fetaceum, erectum, acutum, jig. 3. - | Stigma like a fmall, fhort, upright, pointed 



A brittle, j%. 3. 



PERICARPIUM: Capsula fubpyriformis, mem- <> SEED-VESSEL : a Capsule fomewhat pear-fhaped, 



branacea, trilocularis, trivalvis, jig. 4. | membranous, having three cavities and 



<> three valves, jig. 4. 



SEMINA plura, majufcula, fubrotunda, atra, ni- Jj SEEDS feveral, fomewhat large, nearly round, black, 



tentia, jig. 5. <j> and glofly, jig. 5. 



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Flowers about the middle of May. 



Is found undoubtedly -wild, betwixt Greenwich and Woolzuich, about half a mile below the former, clofe by 

 the Thames fide, juft above high water mark, growing (where no garden, in all probability, could ever have 

 exifted) with Arundo Phragmites, Caltha palujlris, Oenanthe crocata, and Angelica jylvejlris : Prof. Jacquin, 

 who figures it in the Flora Aujlriaca, and Scopoli, in his Flora Carniolica, defcribe it as growing in fimilar 

 fituations ; their words are, crefcit in pratis udis et fub palujlribus. It has alfo been found in the Jfle of Dogs, 

 which is the oppofite Ihore. 



How fo ornamental a plant, growing in fo public a place, could have efcaped the prying eyes of the many 

 Botanifts who have refided in London for fuch a length of time, feems flrange : for my own part, I am 

 perfectly fatisfied of its being a native of our ifland, and have no doubt but it will be found in many other 

 parts of it. 



The figure we have given, was drawn on the fpot above defcribed, where it grows more luxuriantly than 

 we ufually fee it in gardens ; the reafon of which is, that in gardens it feldom has a foil or fituation fuffi- 

 ciently moift. 



The older Botanifts, and even Tournefort, united it with the Snowdrop; and in our gardens it is 

 generally known by the name of the great Summer Snowdrop; but as it differs very effentially in its fructi- 

 fication from the Galantkus, we have thought it neceflary to give it the new Englifli name of Snozvflake, to 

 correfpond in fome degree with the Linnasan generic name Leucojum. 



