The Hyacinraus amethystinus of Pallas, a russian plant, 
usually quoted as a synonym of the present species, is very , 
distinct; belongs to Muscart, and comes near to botryoides. 
It has been recorded in the Flora “ ‘aurico-caucasica of Mr. 
Marschall of Bieberstein, by the title of Hyacinruus pallens. 
As at present defined, we know of only two species of this 
enus, viz. the subject of the present article, and the Garden 
dyacinth (H. orientalis) familiar to every one. 
Bulb about the size of an olive. Leaves several (6-7) 
equal to or shorter than the scape, 4-; of an inch broad, 
ligulate, tapered, channelled, streaked beneath, flaccid-and 
recumbent when the plant is in flower. Scape from 9 inches 
to a foot in height. Raceme openly many flowered, scattered, 
somewhat upright; flowers nodding, blue; pedicles re- 
curved, sometimes as long as the flowers, sometimes shorter; 
bractes membranous, somewhat coloured, narrow, linearly 
lanceolate, even with the pedicles. Corolla oblong, cam- 
panulate, about half an inch in length, round, of a consider- 
ably larger diameter than the tube of a crow-quill, not en- 
larged at the bottom as in the Garden Hyacinth, faintly 
hexangular at the upper part, with angles of a deeper blue, 
<ixcleft for about of its length; limb of a paler colour than 
the tube, even, widespread, recurved, with obovately rounded 
segments, outer ones with a small thick point, inner ones 
retuse. Stamens deepishly enclosed within the tube, nearly 
as short again as the corolla, alternating in length ;, filaments 
adnate for three fourths of their length, subulate, connivent: 
anthers upright, suspended from the back, with sulpbur- 
coloured pollen. Pistil about equal to the three shorter sta- 
mens: germen scarcely so large as a mustard-seed, roundish, 
faintly 3-lobed, marked with 6 lines: style subulately con- 
tinuous, stiff, slightly 3-edged, when viewed through a 
magnifier sixstreaked: stigma a simple blunt point. 
