MUSCARI botryoides, P. r
Grape Muscari, three varieties.
Natural Order. A sp h o d e le ^ . Brown prodr. 274.
M U SCARI. Perianthium coloratura, ventricoso-tubulosum ;
fauce coarctata, crenis sex brevissimis marginata. Stamina 6,
tubo medio inserta. Stigma 1. Capsula loculis sapius
2-spermis.
M. botryoides, perianthiis globosis uniformibus ; inferioribus
remotioribus, foliis strictis linearibus basi angustatis canal-
iculatis.
Muscari botryoides. Willd. enum. 1. p . 378. Link enum. 1.
p . 331. Hort. sub. lond. p . 73.
Hyacinthus botryoides. Willd. sp. pi. 2. p . 170. Pers. syn.
1. p . 375. Botan. magaz. 157. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2.
p . 283.
a. azureum, floribus azureis. Sky-hlue Grape Muscari.^ fig. a,
ß. pallidum, floribus pallidis. Pale-blue Grape Museari. fig. c.
y. album, floribus albis. White Grape Muscari. fig. b.
R o o t bulbous, increasing rapidly by its numerous
offsets. Leaves several, smooth, erect, linear, channelled,
bluntish, narrowest at the base. Scapes generally
2 from the same bulb, erect, about the length of
the leaves, smooth, round on one side, and flat on the
other, slightly angular. Flowers in a crowded cluster,
globular, all of the same form, lowermost farthest
apart, nodding. Bractes 2, at the base of the peduncle,
1 on each side, very short, succulent. Peduncles
cylindrical, shorter than the flowers, more than double
the length of the bractes. Perianthium globular,
mouth contracted, and terminated in 6 slight raargiiR
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