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HYACINTHUS amethystinus. 
Spanish Eyacinth. 
HEXANDRIA ston ETE} 
Nat. ord. Aspuopzxt. Jussieu gen. 51. Div. III. Flores spicati. Ra- 
dix bulbosa. Corolla basi tubulosa. 
ASPHODELE# (includentes Asparagos plerosque Jussieuii). 
Brown prod. 1. 274. 
HYACINTHUS. Cor, infera, tubulosa, cis medium sexfida, fauce 
soluta, laciniis patentibus. Stam. inclusa tubo; fil. ex toto fermé adnata. 
Stylus triquetro-subulatus; stigma apex obtusus. . Caps. ovato-trigona, _ 
triloc. Sem. plura, subrotunda. 
Bulbus tenicatus, indusiis membranaceis. Folia radicalia, subcarnosa, 
varié lorata. Scapus teres, carnosus. In H. orientali germen poris tribus 
subtilibus stilla stante limpidé coronatis apice perforatum. Nob. in Curtis's 
magaz. 937, et 1185, vers. fol. 
H. amethystinus, corollis basi cylindricis. 
Hyacinthus amethystinus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.1. 454. Mill. dict, ed. 8. n, 5. 
- Hort. Kew. 1. 458. ed. 2. 2. 982. Willd. sp. pl. 2.167; (excluso Pall. 
it.) ejusd. enum. 1. 377. Redouté liliac. 14. es 
Hyacinthus hispanicus. Lamarck encyc. 3. 191. 
Hyacinthus angustifolius. Ustert ann. st. 2. 18. 
H. oblongo ceruleo flore minor. Rudd. elys. 2. 27. fig. 8. 
H. hispanicus minor, orientalis facie. Park. par. 120. 
H. minor hispanicus. Clus. app. alt. 
Bulbus magnitudine Olive. Fol. plurima (6-7) equantia scapum v. bre- 
viora, + v. } uncie lata, ligulata, attenuata, canaliculata, subtis: striata, 
sub anthesin laxata, recumbentia. Scapus 9-uncialis ad pedalem; racemo 
multifloro, laxo, sparso, erectiusculo floribus nutantibus, ceruleis: pedicelli 
recurvatt, gprpintie forum», breviores: bractese membranacee, subcolorate, 
lineari-lanceolata, anguste, equantes pedicellos. Cor. oblongo-campanulata, 
subsemuncialis, teres diametro penne corvine satis majore, nec fundo tumida 
ac in H, orientali, superné obsoleté hexagona angulis saturatits ceruleis, pro 
5, fere longitudinis sue sexfida ; limbus pallidior tubo, equalis, recurvo-diva- 
yicatus, lac. obovato-rotundis, exterioribus incrassato-apiculatis, intertoribus 
retusis. Stam. immersa tubo, dimidio fere breviora corolla, alterné longiora ; 
fil. pro 4 partibus adnata, subulata, conniventia: anth. erect, a dorso ap- 
pense, Skene, polline sulphureo. Pist. staminibus 3 brevioribus sub- 
quale: germ. subrotundum, obsolet2 3-lobum, 6-lineatum, Sinapeos granum 
viz aquans: stylus subulato-continuus, strictus, subtriqueter, ad lentem 6-stri- 
alus: stig. punctum simplex obtusum. 
aan ieeenennmaertenmet 
Cultivated by Miller, in 1759, in the Chelsea Garden; but 
we believe long since lost to our collections; never having 
met with a specimen of it in any, till favoured with the pre- 
sent by Mr. Sabine, secretary to the Horticultural Society, 
in whose garden it flowered in May last. Native of Spain. 
