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Scilla Serotina (/3.) Pink Late- 

 Flowering Souil. 

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SCILLA ferotina g (bmfte<e fimplices ; corolla citra medium 

 fexfida, breviter tubulofa, limbo diffbrmi ;) foliis pau- 

 cis (4 — 5), lorato-acuminatis, convoluto-concavis, 

 nervofis, caudato-mucronatis, glauciufculis; racemo 

 ere£to, oblongo, fubfecundo, remotiufeulo; bracleis 

 ftriato-membranaceis, ovato-attenuatis, pedicello 

 fublongioribus j corolla pendulo-nutante ; laciniis 

 externis oblongo-acuminatis, fublongioribus, paten- 

 dbus ; internis fubanguftioribus, lincari-oblongis, 

 concaviufculis, obtufulis, in ampullam e collo 

 conftri&o ore trilobo patulo hiantem coadunatis ; 

 filamentis ligulato-fubulatis, inclufis, akernis faltem 

 tubum, akeris lacinias interiores fere totis decur- 

 rentibus; antheris fagittato-linearibus, ereQo-con- 

 niventibus ; germine inverfe pyramidato, alato- 

 trigono; ftylo (in 3 facile pari ibili) trifulco-fubulato, 

 minutiffime pubente, in punttum fimpliciffimum 

 defmente. G. 

 S C I L L A ferotina. Fid. fupra No. 85 p. 



Obs. Cum quibufdam Albucis congruit dtfformi corolla limbo, germine 

 obconico triquetro, Jtylo perinde pubefcente ; differt autem ab iifdem, corolla in- 

 fra tubulofe coalita, ac lacinias habente internas ex furfum conferruminatis et 

 warcJatis in tot idem lobules diver genter folutas, filamntis quoque alternatim 

 Mis adnatis. G. 



We refer to No. 859 for what relates generally to the 

 fpecies. Of the prefent variety we find no mention in any 

 book ; nor had we ever heard of it, when it was pointed out to 

 us by Mr. Greville, who received a recently-imported bulb 

 laft fummer, but without any clue to enable him to trace from 

 what part of the world it came. We attribute the greater 

 expanlion in the outer fegments of this, than in thofe of that 

 which is reprefented in No. 859, to the plant's having been 

 kept in the hothoufe. 



We have, more than once, faid that Scilla, Hyaa'nlbus, 

 and Mufcarr, were extremely artificial fe&ions, if not unne- 

 ceflary interruptions of natural affinity ; and that we adhered to 

 them, becaufe we found them already eftablilhed, and adopted 

 ty very eminent Botanifts. In fact, each is more eafily dif- 

 t,r *gui(hable from each other, than the firft from Ornilhogalum. 

 Below, we have enumerated fuch fpecies as appear to us rcaJJy 

 to ktiong to them. Of the others found in Wuldenow, 

 9 fome 



