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SCILLA pratensis. 
Meadow Squill. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACE®. 
SCILLA. Botanical Register, vol. 16. fol. 1355. 
S. pratensis ; foliis pluribus proteranthiis ensiformibus canaliculatis subundulatis 
scapo glabro longioribus, racemo elongato bracteolis minimis scariosis, pe- 
dunculis flore tripló longioribus, perianthii foliolis linearibus patulis stami- 
nibus longioribus. 
S. pratensis. Waldst. § Kitaib. plant. rar. Hung. vol. 2. p. 207. t. 189. 
Reichenb. fl. excurs. 1. 106. no. 721. 
For specimens of this rare Squill I am indebted to the 
Honourable W. F. Strangways, in whose garden at Abbots- 
berry it flowers in June. It is a beautiful little rock plant, 
quite hardy, and a welcome addition to our gardens from 
flowering after the spring bulbs are gone, and before the 
autumnal species appear. 
By those authors who have noticed the plant it has been 
compared with Sc. italica, but it is in reality much more 
closely allied to Sc. autumnalis, from which it differs in 
having evident bracts, a perfectly smooth not scabrous scape, 
and in its time of flowering. 
It is a native of Croatia, in fields and meadows by the 
side of the river Korenicza, and especially near the village 
of that name, flowering in the beginning of June. 
Like most plants with bulbous roots it requires a rich 
sandy soil to grow in, with plenty of moisture during the 
growing season, and to be either protected from wet during 
the time of rest or to be taken up after growing, but not 
before the leaves become yellow; as cutting the leaves off 
bulbous plants before the new bulbs are perfectly matured 
November, 1839. z 
