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SCILLA Peruviana; var. discolor. 

 Dingy-flowered Peruvian Squill. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. LiliacejE. 

 SCILLA. L. 



S. peruviana; foliis lato-lanceolatis patentibus planis "W^^ff 

 longioribus, racemis confertis conicis, bracteis lanceolat.s elongatis ner 

 vosis, capsulis mucronatis ? Gussone FL Sic. 1 . 4 1 i>. 



S. peruviana. Linn. sp. pi- 442. &c. ■„ 



Var. discolor, sepalis petalisquejiavescenti-brunneis, ^noc^leo. 



1 Ornithogalum siculum floribus cinereo-carneis in rotundam metam fast.gi 

 atis. Bonanni, t. 19. ex Gussone. 



That the Peruvian Squill doe* not grow in Peru is well 

 known, the name having been »W^,ft^^ M ^£" 

 sequence of some erroneous statements ™^*™2 

 Neither is it found in India, as one of its old _ og 

 would lead us to suppose. Its rea country is £°W ™£ 

 Cintra according to Brotero; Algiers, where Destontaines 

 fc^tTcLrf- field.; Tripoli, on hill ^^^ 

 Delia Cella; Corsica, near S. Bo f acl % r ]^ 

 found it; clayey hills in Sicily, as wele ^ n / romG ,^^^ 

 even the sterile hills outside the gate Degh angwh of Genoa, 

 as we are assured by Viviani. 



ThP present nlant was sent from Algiers to the Hon. and 

 VeJLSXDean of Manchester, and *«*«•££ 

 in its native eountry with S. peruana. At first «#%*" 

 ever, it seems so different that it cannot be rcg arded as 

 the same species. We most, however, ^"^S 

 after a careful examination, to discover MTJ ^TwwS 

 between them than that of the colour of ^the flowers wh.c 

 are neither white nor bright blue, as m the pre vmusly known 

 states of S. peruviana, hut a dirty pale j™™™ ^ s _ 

 seed-vessels have exactly the mucronate form ascr.bcd 



peruviana. 



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