1878 
* SCILLA Cupaniána. 
Cupani's Squill. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACER, $ SCILLEA. 
SCILLA —Suprà, vol. 16. fol. 1355. 
S. Cupaniana ; foliis lanceolatis planis brevissime densissimeque ciliatis, corymbo 
paucifloro, capsulis rostratis. Römer et Schult. Sp. pl. 7. 559. 
S. Cupaniana.  Gusson. prodr. fl. Sic. 1. 416. 
S. fistulosa. Rafinesque. 
Ornithogalum ceruleum. Rafinesg. Caratt. 85. 
Hyacinthus stellatus coeruleus umbellatus latifolius. Cupani pamph. sic. vol. 1. 
t. 20. 
Communicated by Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. from the 
garden at Lacock Abbey. The bulbs were sent by the Hon. 
William Strangways from Sicily, where they are found wild 
near Villafrata, Ogliastro, and Cool 
A hardy bulb, of great rarity in this country, flowering 
in June. lts bright blue pistil contrasts in a remarkable 
manner with the dull purple of the remainder of the flower. 
Itis very near the Scilla, erroneously called peruviana, which 
is also a Sicilian plant, but is altogether much smaller. 1 
find the leaves edged with a broken cartilaginous margin, 
rather than ciliated as Gussone is represented to describe 
them. 
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# See folio 1355. 
