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H YACI'NTIIUS* *. 
Li, mean Class and Order. Hexa'ndkia f, Monogy'ma. 
Natural Order. Asphode'lEjE+j Dr. R. Brown. — Lindl. Syn. 
p. 266 ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. p. 273. — Loud. Hor. Brit. p. 539. — 
Aspho'deli, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 51. — Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 74. — 
Lilia'ceas, Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 403. 
Gen. Char. Calyx none. Corolla ( Perianthium (fig. 1.) in- 
ferior, of one petal, deeply divided into 6 segments, which are con- 
nivent at the bottom into a tube, and reflexed at the summit, per- 
manent. Filaments 6, thread-shaped, inserted upon the segments, 
(fig. 2). Anthers oblong, incumbent. Germen superior, roundish. 
Style simple, shorter than the stamens, deciduous. Stigma simple, 
blunt. Capsule bluntly 3-cornered, 3-celled, and 3-valved, each 
valve with a central dissepiment or partition. Seeds roundish, 
several in each cell. 
The tubular, deeply 6-parted, permanent corolla ; the stamens in- 
serted on the segments ; and the bluntly 3-cornered capsule of 
three many-seeded cells ; will distinguish this from other Genera, 
with a naked, inferior corolla, in the same class and order. 
One species British. blue 
HYACI'NTIIUS NON SCR1PTUS. English Harebell. Wild 
Hyacinth. 
Spec. Char. Leaves flaccid, strap-shaped. Cluster drooping. 
Bracteas in pairs. 
Curt. FI. Lond. t. 139. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 453. — Muds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) 
p. 141. — Lindl. Syn. p. 270. — Hook, Brit. FI. p. 157. — Sibtli. FI. Oxon. p. 110. — 
Abbot’s FI. lledf. p. 74. — Part. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 171. — Hook. FI. Soot. p. 102. 
— Grev. l'l. Edit), p. 76. — FI. Devon, pp. 58 & 130. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of 
lrel. p. 33. — Hyacinthus nutans, Cray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 177. — Hyacinthus 
Anglicus. Ray’s Syn. p. 373. —Johnson’s Gerardo, p. 111. — Hyacinthus ob- 
longo fiore, cecruleus major, Itudb. Elys. v. ii. p. 26. f. 1. — Scilla nutans, 
Engl. llot. t. 377. — Sm. F I. Brit. v.i. p.366. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 147. — With. 
(7th ed.) v. ii. p.429. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 1 40.— Johnston’s FI. of 
Berwick, v. i. p. 78. — Cuit. Brit. Entom. v. i. t. 49. — Walk. FI. of Oxf. p. 94. — 
Scilla non scripta, Annals of Botany, v. i. p. 103. 
Locau iihs. — In woods, coppices, under hedges, and on heaths. Common. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root a roundish, white, coated (tunieated), mucilaginous, and 
acrid bulb. Leaves numerous, all springing from the bulb, of a 
shining, pale, slightly glaucous, green colour, strap-shaped, 
pointed, channelled, keeled, flaccid ; upright in their lower half, 
then reflexed and drooping. Scape [stalk) from six inches to a 
foot or more high, upright, round, smooth, solid, and brittle. Clus- 
ter [raceme) partly upright, drooping in the upper half, of many 
Fig. 1. Corolla spread open, showing the 6 Stamens, the Germen, Style, 
Stigma, and the paitial Flower-stalk, with the two bracteas at its base. — Fig . 2. 
A segment of the Corolla, with a Stamen attached to it. — Fig. 3. The Capsule. — 
Fig. 4. A Seed. 
* From the youth Hyacinthus , who being killed by Apollo, was changed by 
him into a plant, whose foliage bore the initials of his name. Our only British 
species, having no mark or figure, was hence called non-scriptus. Dr. Hooker. 
Or, it may be detived either from ia, Gr. a violet; or ai, Gr. emphatic of giief; 
and Cynthus, one of the names of Apollo. Dr. \Vitheiunc. 
The Hare-bell ( Hyacinthus non scriptnsj is dedicated to St. George, the 
patron Saint of England. 
f See GaldnUtus nivalis, p.33, note f. 
i See Gugealutea, p. 41. $ Sec p. 33, note f. 
