Hyacinthus non scriptus. English Hyacinth. 
HYACINTHUS Linnai Gen. PL Hexandria Mono&ynia. 
Cor. campanulata : pori 3 melliferi germinis. 
Raii Syn.Gen.26. Herba: radice bulbosa prodita:. 
HYACINTHUS non fcriptus corollis campanulatis, fexpartitig, apice revolutis. Lin. Syjl, Veget, p. 276, 
HYACINTHUS oblongo flore coeruleus major. Bauhin Pin. 43. 
HYACINTHUS anglicus. Gerard, emac. m. 
HYACINTHUS anglicus belgicus vel hifpanicus. Parkinfon. Parad. 122. Raii Syn. p. 373, Englifo 
Hyacinth, or Hare-bells. 
HYACINTHUS non fcriptus. Hyacinth. Diofcoridis. Dod. Ludg. 
Hudfon. FI. Angl. 123. ed. 2. p. 141- Lightfoot. FI. Scot. p. 183. 
RADIX : bulbus fubrotundus, magnitudine nucis my- 
rifticae, candidus, fucco vifcido repletus, ex 
ima parte plurimas fibrillas albidas dimittens. 
¥ ROOT 4 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 
I fibres. 
SCAPUS nudus, femipedalis aut pedalis, ere&us, teres, 
lasvis, folidus. 
FOLIA quatuor, fex, interdum plura, fcapo duplo 
breviora, femunciam lata, carinata, concava, 
laevia, nitida. 
FLORES odio ad duodecem ; fepe plures, odorati, coe- 
rulei aut violacei, rarius carnei aut albi, fpi- 
cati, fecundi, nutantes. 
STALK naked, from half a foot to a foot in height, 
upright, fpund, fmooth, and folid. 
LEAVES four, fix, lometimes more, twice as fhort 
as theftalk, 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 
flelh coloured or white, growing in a fpike, 
all one way, and hanging down. 
BRACTEzE bin», fuberefl:», lanceolat», fig. 1. 
COROLLA fubcylindracea, fexpartita, laciniis revolu- 
tis, fig- 2, 3. 
STAMINA : Filamenta fex, tria longiora tubum 
corollas asquantia, inferne corollse adnata, fu- 
perne libera, fetacea, albida: AnthertE e- 
reft», incumbentes, fubfagittatas, flavefcen- 
tes , fig. 4- 
FLORAL-LEAVES two to each flower, lanceolate, 
and nearly upright, fig. 1. 
COROLLA almofi: 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: Anthera: upright, in- 
cumbent, fomewhat arrow-fhaped, of a yel 
lowifh colour, fig. 4. 
PISTILLUM : Germen conicum, angulato-fulcatum, 
albidum : Stylus corolla brevior, apice vio- 
laceus : Stigma obtufum, villofum, fig. 5 * 
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. 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula triquetra, trilocularis, | 
trivalvis, valvis ovatis, mucronatis, fig. 6. ^ 
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SEMINA plurima, violacea, nitida, fubrotunda, fig. 7. | 
SEED-VESSEL: a three-cornered Capsule, of three 
cavities and three valves, the valves oval, and 
terminating in a fhort point, fig. 6. 
SEEDS numerous, of a fine blue colour, and roundifh 
fhape, 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, via. that of Meffrs. Vooriielm and Schneevoot, of Hacrlim, for the year 1778, the Gloria Solis 
is marked at a 1000 guilders, eleven of which make one pound fterling. 
The fpecies which is the objeft of fo much care and cultivation, and from whence fuch numerous and beautiful 
varieties are produced, is not our Englifh Hyacinth, but the Hyacinthus orientalis of Linnieus : neverthelefs, the 
prefent fpecies is often to be met with in gardens, though in a ftate not much improved, being generally Angle, 
and retaining its charafter of drooping flowers, by which charafter 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 
Linnasus ; but named by Mr. Banks Scilla campanulata r . 
Our meadows woods, and hedge-rows, are beautifully decorated with the bloffoms of this plant in the fpring 
months. Its feeds are not ripened till the end of the year ; and thofe, on being fown, did not vegetate till the 
'“he term of non fcriptus was applied to this plant by fome of the earlieft botanifts, as may be feen in Bauhin' s 
pinax and Ray's Hill. 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, mid. Bauh. Pin. p. 47. and Rail. Hid. f. 1 1 J 5. 
The great uncertainty in which the antients have left us, by their vague and imperfeS defcnptions, appears in a 
ftrong light by what can be collefted from their writings concerning the Hyacinth Flower. Since the revival 
of letters, commentators and botanifts, have taken great pains to alcertain the plant which the antient poets and 
nnturalifts called bv this name ; but with what fuccefs, may be eafily gathered, when we find them feverally fixing 
upon flowers of fuch very different appearances as the Martagon, Larkfpur, and Ins, for the true Hyacinth. 
