Leucojum ALstivum. Summer Snowflake. 
LEUCOJUM 
LEUCOJUM 
LEUCOJUM 
LEUCOJUM 
LEUCOJUM 
LEUCOION 
Lin. Gen. PL Hexandria Monogynia. 
Cor. campaniformis, 6-partita, apicibus incraflata. Stigma iimplex. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 26. Herba radice bulbosa pr adita. 
cejiivum fpatha multiflora, ftylo clavato. Lin. Syjl. Vcgetab. p. 316. Sp. PL. p. 414. 
Jacquin FI. Aujlr. t. 203. v. 4. 
afiivum. Scopoli FI. Cam. n. 393. 
bulbofum majus f multiflorum. Bank. Pin. 55. 
bulbofum ferotinum majus 1. Cluf. hijl. 1. p. 170. 
bulbofum polyanthemum. Dodon. Stirp hijt. p. 230. The great late flowering 
Bulbous Violet. Park. Parad. p. 110. 
RADIX : Bulbus magnitudine nucis caftaneas, fub- 
ovatus, extus pallide fufcus, intus albus, 
tunicatus, lamellis plurimis, tenuibus, denfe 
compaflis. 
FOLIA plurima, fefquipedalia, erefta, fublinearia, 
faturate viridia, unciam fere lata, obtufa, 
fuperne plana, inferne leviter carinata, ca- 
rina obtufa, exteriora breviora. 
SCAPUS foliis paulo altior, multiflorus, fiftulofus, 
fubcompreffus, anceps, fubtortuofus, uno 
latere nonnunquam obtufo, altero acuto. 
PEDUNCULI plerumque quinque ex eadem fpatha, 
uniflori, angulati, longitudine inaequales. 
FLORES albi, penduli, fecundi, vix odori. 
COROLLA campaniformi-patens. Petala fex, ovata, 
alba, intus ftriata, ball minime cohaerentia, 
apicibus crafliufculis, ftriftioribus, macula 
viridi infignitis. 
STAMINA: Filamenta fex, alba, filiformia: An- 
ther a oblongce, fubquadrangulares, ereflae, 
luteae, apice poris duobus dehifcentes,^-. 1,2. 
PISTILLUM: Germen fubovatum, inferum : Sty- 
lus albus, flaminibus paulo longior, in- 
ferne attenuatus, fuperne virefcens; Stigma 
breve, fetaceum, ere£ium, acutum, ^.3. 
PERICARPIUM: Capsula fubpyriformis, mem- 
branacea, trilocularis, trivalvis, Jig. 4. 
SEMINA plura, majufcula, fubrotunda, atra, ni- 
tentia, jig. 5. 
ROOT : a Bulb the fize of a chefnut, fomewhat ovate, 
externally of a pale brown colour, internally 
white, coated, the coats numerous, thin, 
and clofely compared. 
LEAVES numerous, about a foot and a half in 
length, upright, nearly linear, of a deep 
green colour, almoft an inch in breadth, 
obtufe, above flat, beneath (lightly keeled, 
the keel obtufe, the lowermoft leaves (horteft. 
STALK a little higher than the leaves, fupporting 
many flowers, hollow, flightly flattened, 
two-edged, a little twifted, one fide fome- 
times obtufe, the other acute. 
FLOWER-STALKS for the moft part five proceed- 
ing from the fame ffieath, each fupporting 
a fingle flower, angular, and of unequal 
lengths. 
FLOWERS white, pendulous, growing all one way, 
with little fcent. 
COROLLA fomewhat bell-Ihaped, fpreading, Petals 
fix, ovate, white, finely grooved within 
fide, not at all uniting at bottom, tips 
thickifh, a little puckered, and marked with 
a green fpot. 
STAMINA fix white, thread-fhaped Filaments : 
Anther a oblong, fomewhat quadrangular, 
upright, yellow, each cell open at top, 
fig. U 2. 
PISTILLUM Germen fomewhat ovate, beneath ; 
Style white, a little longer than the fla- 
mina, tapering downwards, above greenifh ; 
Stigma like a fmall, fhort, upright, pointed 
briftle, fig. 3. 
SEED-VESSEL : a Capsule fomewhat pear-fhaped, 
membranous, having three cavities and 
three valves, fig. 4. 
SEEDS feveral, fomewhat large, nearly round, black, 
and glofly, fig. 5. 
Flowers about the middle of May. 
Is found undoubtedly wild, betwixt Greenwich and Woolwich, 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 palufir is. Oenanthe crocata, and Angelica fylvefiris : Prof. Tacquin 
who figures it m the Flora Aufinaca, and Scopoli, in his Flora Carniolica, defcribe it as growing in fimilar 
fixations ; their words are, crefcit in pratis udis et fub palufiribus. It has alfo been found in the I lie of Doss 
which is the oppofite fhore. J J 6 ’ 
How fo ornamental a plant, growing in fo public a place, could have efcaped the prying eyes of the manv 
Botanms who have refided in London for fuch a length of time, feems flrange : for my own part I am 
perfectly fattsfied of its being a native of our ifland, and have no doubt but it will be found in many’ other 
parts of it. 1 
The figure we have given, was drawn on the fpot above defcribed, where it grows more luxuriantly than 
■e ufually fee it in gardens ; the reafon of which is, that in gardens it feldom has a foil or lituation f„ffi. 
ciently moift. 
The older Botamfts, and even Tournefort, united it with the Snowdrop; and in our ardens it is 
generally known by the name of the great Summer Snowdrop; but as it differs very effentiallv in its fru&i 
fication from the Galanthus, we have thought it neceffary to give it the new Englilh name of Snowflake to 
correipond in lome degree with the Linnaian generic name Leucojum. 
