Refugium Botanicum.} [January, 1870. 
EA Daelias 
Natural Order LiniacEs. 
Tribe HyacInTHE. 
Genus Muscari, Tourn. 
Sub-genus Borryantuus, Kunth. 
M. Hewpretcui (Boiss. Diagn. ser. 2, No. 4, p. 109). Foliis 5—6 
lineari-filiformibus semiteretibus profunde canaliculatis erecto-fal- 
catis scapo subduplo longioribus, racemo sublaxo 8—12-floro, pedi- 
cellis patulis floribus quadruplo brevioribus, perigonio saturate 
azureo obovato-globoso sesquilongiore quam lato, superne ieviter 
angulato fauce sgre constricto, dentibus albis deltoideis recurvatis 
tubo 5—6-plo brevioribus—M. hymenophorum, Held. Herb. Graec. 
No. 662. 
A native of Greece, imported to this country by M. Orphanides. 
It was originally gathered on Mount Parnassus by M. von 
Heldreich. 
Bulb ovoid, white, tunicated, six to nine lines in thickness. 
Leaves about half a dozen to a bulb, erecto-falcate, nearly or 
quite a foot long when fully developed, linear-filiform, semiterete, 
not more than an eighth of an inch broad, deeply channelled on 
the face, a moderate not glaucous green. Scape four to six inches 
long. aceme eight- to twelve-flowered, the pedicels about a line 
long and all nearly horizontal, the uppermost flowers subsessile 
and barren. Perianth a bright sky-blue, obovate-subglobose, 
nearly a quarter of an inch deep, scarcely half as long again as 
thick, slightly angular upwards, very little constricted at the 
throat, the divisions pure white, deltoid, recurved, abont a sixth 
as long as the tube. Stamens, style and capsule as in the other 
species of the section Botryanthus. 
This handsome new species comes nearest to M. botryoides in 
the shape of the perianth, but it is considerably larger and much 
less constricted at the throat, and the segments are twice as 
large, and the raceme is not so dense and has the lower flowers 
scarcely at all cernuous. In the leaf it most resembles M. 
neglectum. 
Tab. 172.—1, perianth; 2, the same opened: both magnified.—J. G. B. 

I am indebted to the Messrs. Backhouse, of York, for this 
charming little species of Muscari. It is quite hardy, and to be 
seen in perfection it should be grown with the alpine plants, 
planted in good sandy loam in well-drained pots.—W. W. 8. 
