Feb. 
Plate — 
XXIII. 
Fig. ©. 
 ferv’d that feveral others of a different Genus, 
_ were join’d to it by the common Englifh Name. 
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fucceeding Head, are the two principal: they are 
called as that Snow Drop, and bulbous Violet ; | 
but from the different Charaéters in their F lowers, 
Linnavs has arrang’d them under diftin@ Ge- 
nera; and naming the firft Galanthus, calls thefe 
Leucoiums, : 
this Species. C. BavHIne calls it Leucoium Bulbofum 
vulgare. Linnaus continuing the Name Leu- 
coium, adds, as the Diftinétion of the Species, 
Spatha uniflora ftylo Clavato, fingle flower’d Leu- 
coium with a clavated Style. | 
ed with a brown outer Rind, and fending Fibres 
. from the Bafe ; its Juice is flimy,' and difagree- 
able to the Tafte. : | 
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Flowers and curious Plants now in their Perfeion. 
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E in this, as in former Inftances, call 
Plants familiarly known by their com- 
mon Names; informing the Student 
before we proceed to the Defcription, what is the 
more proper Title. © ; o : 
In our eighteenth Number, treating of » that 
earlier Flower the common Snow Drop, we ob- 
envelop’d with a whitifh Film at their Bottoms, 
and they are long, moderately broad, obtufe at 
the End, and of a very fine green, : | 
The Stalks rife to ten Inches in Height 
| 3; they 
are of a paler green than the Leaves, and fome- 
what edg’d; two or three rife from each good 
Root, but each is terminated by a fingle Flower. 
This is at firft wrap’d in a Scabbard, which 
ferves it as a kind of Cup; and is thin and 
The Plants we mention here, and under the 
the Edges, ) | 
When this burfts appears the F lower, large, 
and drooping, from the Slendernefs of its Foot- 
ftalk, The Colour is Snow white throughout, 
except at the Tips of the Petals, where there is 
on each a Spot of very beautiful green. , 
The Flower is follow’d by a roundifh Seed 
Veffel, mark’d with three Furrows, and containing 
in three diftinét Cells numerous round Seeds. 
To know its Clafs let the Student examine the 
Flower diftinétly. - He will perceive its Scabbard 
burfts at the Side to give it Paffage, and then 
after a little Time begins to wither - it has ne 
other Cup. It is compos’d of fix broad Petals, 
which unite at their Bafes, ‘and ‘have pointed 
é = Ends, the whole ftanding in a roundifh Manner, ? 
‘The Leaves rife fix or eight from each Root, | and reprefenting a Bell. * | 
Numb. XXIII, A) SUES: oe sates adnan i 
The earlier Writers were well acquainted with 
The Root is a large bulb, white within, cover- 
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_whitifh in the Middle, and thicker and green at 
