LEUCO'JUM jESTI'VUM. 
SUMMER SNOWFLAKE. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
AMARYLLIDEZE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
1 foot. 
May. 
Perennial. 
moist mead. 
No. 186. 
Leucojum, a name from the Greek, supposed to 
have been applied by Theophrastus to the Linnean 
Galanthus. It is derived from leukos, white; 
and ion, a violet. Our old English writers termed 
this a bulbous violet ; and some have also conformed 
to the Greek, by spelling it Leucoium. iEstivum, 
from the Latin aestas, summer. 
This plant was first noticed, growing wild, by 
Mr. Cirtis, near Woolwich, and has since been 
gathered by others in moist situations near the 
Thames; and also in Westmoreland, and other parts. 
When it is well established, and the bulbs in- 
creased, so as to produce several flowering stems 
near together, they become strong and very attrac- 
tive; and certainly need not, as intimated by a 
modern writer, be distinguished as belonging alone 
to rustic gardens. It is not always so luxuriant 
in a cultivated as in a wild state; which arises 
merely from a deficient supply of moisture. It suc- 
ceeds well in peat earth, in an eastern aspect, and 
damp situation, where many other plants would 
decay. The bulbs sustain the least injury by being 
removed in August or September. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 212. 
