Hyacinthus Comosus. Two Coloured, or, Tassel Hyacinth.
Class and Order.
Hexandria Monogynia.
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 tassels. Park. Parad. p. 117.
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 Linnæus, for they differ so much that no student would consider the present plant as belonging to the same genus with the Hare-bell.