GALAN'THUS PLICA'TUS. 
0 
PLAITED SNOWDROP. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
AMARYLLIDACEit. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Crimea. 
I foot. 
Jan. April. 
Perennial. 
in 1597. 
No, 700. 
By the Greeks the present genus was called 
Lucoium, and the name continued to be used by 
our early herbalists till the time of Linneus. 
Galanthus, its modern appellation, was deduced 
from GALA, milk; and anthos, a flower; the literal 
translation, therefore, is Milk-flower, an allusion to 
its milky whiteness. This name, however, it would 
appear, was not acceptable to later English her- 
balists; they required a more poetical term, and 
found it in the doubly applicable name — Snowdrop. 
Although this species of Galanthus was intro- 
duced to this country from Constantinople many 
years ago, and figured by Gerard and Parkinson, 
it is probable that it was entirely lost, perhaps from 
being confounded, by common observers, with the 
English species, the Galanthus nivalis. The Ga- 
lanthus plicatus was re-introduced about the year 
1818, and attracted considerable attention. The 
fact on which its specific name is founded, marks 
one prominent distinction which exists between it 
and nivalis. We allude to the folding of the leaf 
along its margin. It is also larger, both in foliage 
and flower. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Loudon’s Ency. PI. 248. 
