HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Anthericum. 431 
(HYACIN /r rHUS. # Bloss. inferior, deciduous; limb in six 
segments ; tube swollen : Siam, uniform : Caps, three- 
celled : Seeds globose. E.) 
(H. racemo'sus. Flowers ovate, six-furrowed, the upper ones sessile, 
barren : leaves strap-shaped, channelled, spreading. 
E. Bot. 1931— Curt. Mag. 122— Jacq. Austr. 187— Dod. Pempt. 217— Ger. 
Em. 118— Lob. Ic. 107— Clus. Hist. v. 1. 181. 
Bulb ovate, brown externally. Leaves many, deep green, flaccid, and 
loosely spreading, very narrow, about a span long; channelled above, 
semicylindrical at the back. Stalk solitary, erect, cylindrical, much 
shorter than the leaves, often brownish. Cluster ovate, dense, of nume¬ 
rous, little, drooping, dark blue flowers, whose tube is oval, their limb 
minute and whitish. Several of the uppermost are pale, diminutive, and 
imperfect. Caps, with three-rounded lobes. Seeds two in each cell. 
The flowers smell like wet starch, sometimes occasioning head-ache and 
nausea. 
Starch Hyacinth. On a sandy soil at Cavenham, Suffolk. Rev. G. R. 
Leathes. Near Newbury, Berks. Dr. Lamb. On the earthy ledge of 
the old city wall, on the north side of Norwich, plentiful. 
P. May. Sm. E.) 
ANTHER ICUM.f Bloss. six petals, expanding: Caps . ob¬ 
long, superior, three-celled : ( Seeds angular. E.) 
A. sero'tinum. (Leaves semi-cylindrical; those on the stem dilated 
at their base : stem mostly one-flowered. Sm. E.) 
Jacq. Austr. App. 38— (E. Bot. 793. E .)—Bay 17. 1. at p. 474— -J. B. ii. 
665. 1. 
I am indebted to J. W. Griffith, Esq. of Garn, near Denbigh, for the fol¬ 
lowing description of this rare and almost inaccessible species. 
Plant from four to eight inches high. Boot a club-shaped, bent bulb, 
covered with white laminated membranous scales. Leaves two, strap- 
awl-shaped, very slender, bending downwards, often longer than the 
stalk. Stalk with three or four floral-leaves, spear-awl-shaped, the 
upper ones decurrent, bent inwards, the lower ones sheathing, slanting 
outwards. Flowers from one to four, but most frequently single. Petals 
six, oblong, expanded, permanent, veined, white within, keel dull pink 
with a^tinge of green. Germen obscurely triangular. Summits triangu- 
Confirmed also by a description in Ovid, x. These equally display 
“ Del languido Giacinto , che nel grembo 
Porta dipinto il suo dolore amaro.” 
Though the Hare-bell be often admitted into our gardens, the expensive varieties which 
ornament the parterre or the boudoir are derived from H. orientalis, of Aleppo and Bagdad, 
and sometimes obtain a prize of from ten to twenty, or even thirty pounds, for a single 
bulb, especially the fine kinds produced near Haerlem (of which there are nearly two 
thousand, and cultivated by the acre), a species of extravagance scarcely justifiable. E.) 
* (The name thus applied by the ancient Greeks, as to the flower which sprung from 
the blood of the beloved of Apollo, when slain by the rival Zephyrus. It may be derived 
either from <a, a violet, or emphatic of grief, and Cynthus , a cognomen of Apollo. E.) 
*f* * (From «i/9o;, a flower, a wall or precipice. E.) 
