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GALANTHUS NIVALIS. 
NAT. CLASS,—MONOCOTYLEDONES; ORDER,— AMARYLLIDACEÆ. ART. 
CLASS,—HEXANDRIA ; ORDER,—MONOGYNIA. 
From the base of a laminated egg-shaped bulb pro- 
ceed numerous unbranched fibrous roots; and from 
its summit rises the flower-stalk, between two strap- 
shaped, keeled, and blunt leaves, wbich are enclosed 
through half their lengtb in a tubular sheath. To- 
wards the summit of the flower-stalk is a membra- 
nous spathe, and above this a single nodding flower, 
with a superior perianth of six white segments, set 
in two distinct whorls ; the three outermost are 
obovate, and longer than the three inner ones, which 
are ob-cordate-oblong, and marked on the outside with 
a green blotch, and on the inside with about seven 
yellow-green lines. The stamens are six, with the 
filaments shorter than the terminal anthers, the latter 
ending in a bristly point, and discharging the pollen 
through two pores. The pistil has a globose, three- 
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