Volume Iv Part 8 (2/2)
_Generic Character._
_Corolla_ campanulata: pori 3-melliferi germinis.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
HYACINTHUS _comosus_ corollis angulato-cylindricis: summis sterilibus longius pedicellatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. 336._
HYACINTHUS comosus major purpureus. _Bauh. Pin. 42._ The purple faire haired Jacinth; or Purse ta.s.sels. _Park. Parad. p. 117._
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Most of the old Botanists arranged this plant, the _racemosus_, and others having almost globular flowers with the Hyacinths. TOURNEFORT, struck with the difference of their appearance, made a distinct genus of them under the name of _Muscari_, in which he is followed by MILLER, and should have been by LINNaeUS, for they differ so much that no student would consider the present plant as belonging to the same genus with the Hare-bell.
This species grows wild in the corn-fields of Spain, Portugal, and some parts of Germany, and flowers in May and June.
It is distinguished more by its singularity than beauty, the flowers on the summit of the stalk differing widely in colour from the others, and being mostly barren: PARKINSON says, ”the whole stalke with the flowers upon it, doth somewhat resemble a long Purse ta.s.sell, and thereupon divers Gentlewomen have so named it.”
It is a hardy bulbous plant, growing readily in most soils and situations, and usually propagated by offsets.
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ADONIS VERNALIS.
_Cla.s.s and Order._
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
_Generic Character._
_Cal._ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ quinis plura absque nectario. _Sem._ nuda.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
ADONIS _vernalis_ flore dodecapetalo, fructu ovato. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. ed. Murr. p. 514._ _Ait. Hort. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 264._
h.e.l.lEBORUS niger tenuifolius, Buphthalmi flore. _Bauh. Pin. 186._
BUPHTHALMUM _Dodon. Pempt. 261._
h.e.l.lEBORUS niger ferulaceus sive Buphthalmum. The great Ox-eye, or the great yellow Anemone. _Parkins. Parad. p. 291. f. 6._
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