Floral Illustrations of the Seasons

GALANTHUS nivalis.

Reading edition

Common Snowdrop.

Illustration from Floral Illustrations of the Seasons Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

Class and Order.—Hexandria Monogynia.

Syn. Galanthus nivalis. English Bot. pl. 19.

Root bulbous.—Scape from three to five inches high, one flowered. Leaves two, broadly linear, obtuse, glaucous green, sheathing the lower part of the stem.—Flower drooping, bursting from a sheath, lanceolate.—Corolla white, petals three, oblong, obtuse—nectaries three emarginate, beautifully tipped with green—stamens six, anthers subulate—style one, stigma simple.

This beautiful flower so well known, and so peculiarly interesting from its modest simplicity, hardly requires a description of its treatment or mode of growth. It is a native of England, having been found in many places remote from cultivation, and will grow in any soil or situation.—A double var. is frequently met with in our gardens, there is also another species G. plicatus, a native of Caucasus.

Pl. 55.

Plate 9. Cyclamen Coum. Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.