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Scilla Serotina. Brown-Flowered 



Squil. 



Clqfs and Order. 



HeXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Charafter.-^-Vid. N os - 663 8c 746. 



Specific Charafter and Synonyms. 



SCILLA ferotina racemo fpicato, nutante, fubfecundo ; bra&eis 

 folitariis, fubfagittato-ovatis, ariftatis; corolla ultra 3 

 quartas partes divifa ; laciniis intimis cylindrico- 

 conniventibus, partim cohaerenterincumbentibus, ex- 

 timis recurvo-patulis; ftylis trinisconjun&is. G. 



LACHENALI A ferotifta. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 175. 



DIPCADI ferotina. UJleri Ann. St. 2. p. 13. 



HYACINTHUS/^™//^. Sp. PL 453. Cava*. Ic. 18. /. 30. 

 Gcertn. Sem. & Fr. 38. /. 12. Desf. FL At I. 1. 

 p. 307. Hort. Kew. 1. 457. Syn. Stir p. Indig. 

 Arragon. 44. 



ALBUCA minor. Gleditjck aft. Berol. 1769. (necut in Willd. 



HYACINTHUS obfoleto flore hifpanicus. Ger. Emac. 115. 



/ 14. 

 HYACINTHUS obfolete coloris hifpanicus ferotinus. Ciuf. 



Hiji. 177. cum fig. bona. 



While non fcripta (nutans Sm. FL Brit. 1. 366 J cermta 

 and campamdata continue attached to this Genus, and we think 

 they certainly Ihould be, no one can be at a lofs where to ar- 

 range the prefent plant. Scilla, Hyacinthus, and Mus- 

 cari are feftions violently artificial and too arbitrary, yet 

 fafer to be retained than united, from their long {landing 

 and from the fpecies being fo univerfally known by their 

 prefent generic denominations ; perhaps the eafieft characters 



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