Refugium Botanicum.] (January, 1870. 
TAB. 176. 
Natural Order Lrnrace#. 
Tribe HyactntTuHex. 
Genus Hyacinruus, Linn. 
H. ortentauis (Linn. Sp. Plant. 454). Lusus perigonio omnino viridi 
valde angustato et elongato, tubo cylindraceo ultra pollicari laciniis 
linearibus semper erectis tubo subduplo brevioribus, ovario clavato 
sursum sterili sensim angustato, stylo obsoleto, filamentis valde 
elongatis antheris rubro-purpureis triplo-quadruplo longioribus. 
This remarkable form of the common cultivated Hyacinth 
appeared in the garden of G. Simpson, Esq., at Reigate, in Feb. 
1869. The bulb and leaves did not present any deviation from the 
ordinary type. The pedicels were erecto-patent and considerably 
lengthened out. Flowers an inch and a half to two inches long, 
the perianth within and without a uniform bright green, the 
hexagonal cylindrical tube exceeding the divisions, throughout 
scarcely more than an eighth of an inch in thickness, the per- 
manently ascending fleshy linear divisions half to three-quarters 
of an inch long. Ovary clavato-cylindrical, nearly as long as the 
tube, narrowed upwards, the cells only ovuliferous in the lower 
half, the style obsolete, unless the sterile upper half of the ovary 
be considered to represent it, the stigma represented by six 
minute papillose knobs. The filaments, which in the ordinary 
form of the plant are scarcely at all developed, were here three 
to four lines long. Anthers linear-oblong, like those of the 
normal plant, reddish purple, being the only coloured portion of 
the flower. 
We give by the side of the lusus, for comparison, a flower of 
the cultivated form which most nearly represents the original 
wild state of the species; and also, on the left-hand side of the 
plate, a single flower of the “Robert Steigar” of the ordinary 
shape and colour. 
Tab. 176.—1, flower cut open, slightly magnified. 2, stamen; 3, 
pistil; 4, horizontal section of the ovary; 5, 6, flower cut open, and 
separate stamen of the typical form, for comparison with the monstrosity : 
all magnitied.—J. G. B. 
ese 
The description given above by Mr. J. G. Baker is from a 
spike of flower which was well in bloom on the 15th of February, 
