and flowers in May and June, but very rarely ripens its fruit in
Gardens.




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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._

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Most of the old Botanists arranged this plant, the _racemosus_, and