Plend.pk . 15, ASPHODELEiE. 114. Hyacinth us. 17? 
Hyacinthus nutans . Drooping hyacinth , 
Leaves flaccid, linear, shorter than the scape; raceme 
before flowering drooping. 
Hyacinthus nutans, Ger. em. 99 j Sj/n. 373, 2. 
Hyacinthus Anglicus, Belgicus, vel Hispanicus, Park. Paradise, 122, 
Hyacinthus non-scriptus, Lin. S. P. 453. 
Hyacinthus pfatensis, Lamarck Enc. Meth. 3, 190. 
Hyacinthus cernuus, Thuill. Par. 2. 
Scilla nutans, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2, 248. 
Scilla festalis, Salisb. Prod. 242. 
English hyacinth. Harebells. 
Woods, hedges and pastures ; perennial; May and June. 
Bulls large; leaves many, keeled; scape 18 in. high, 
upright ; flowers facing one way, fine-scented.— Roc/s when 
fresh poisonous, may be converted into starch, or pre- 
pared as a substitute for gum Arabic. 
0. alius . Flowers white. 
IV. 115. HONORIUS. Star of Naples. 
Perigonium 6-sepaled, connivent at bottom, spreading 
at top, persisting; outer sepales herbaceous, inner petaloid; 
stamens 6, unequal, inserted at the base of the lobes of the 
perigonium \ filaments dilated, cohering, bellshape ; the 3 on 
the outer sepales longer, 2-horned; style 3-sided, 3 -grooved; 
stigma blunt; capsule ovate, 3-sided; seeds many, roundish; 
hilum sunk, or not tubercular ; corculum central, curved, 
half as long as the perisperm ; spermodermis simpl e.-—Bulh 
tunicate ; leaves linear ; scape upright ; flowers racemose, 
white, outside streaked with green ; peduncles alternate, 
bracteate ; Iractece slightly sheathing, single. 
Honorius nutans . Drooping star of Naples . 
Flowers racemose, facing one way, drooping ; leaves 
strapshape, deep green, shorter than the scape; Iractece 
acute, shorter than the flowers. 
Ornithogalum Neapolitanum, Ger.em. 168,9. 
Ornithogalum nutans, Lin. S. P. 441 . 
Star-flower of Naples, Park. Paradise , 133. 
Fields and meadows ; perennial ; May. 
Bulb ovate ; leaves pale, acute ; scape cylindrical ; flowers 
8 or 10, silvery white. 
V. 116. SCILLA. Squill , 
Perigonium 6rsepaled, spreading, falling off ; stamens 6 ; 
filaments simple, threadshape, smooth, inserted at the bot- 
tom of the sepales ; stigma obtuse ; capsule obtuse, 3-sided; 
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