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Plschrinia scilloides. Squil-like 

 puschkinia. 



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Class and Order. 



Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 1-petala, 6-partita, infera. Nectarium brevissimum, 

 6-dentatum, coronans faucem. Stamina intra nectarium. 

 Marschall d Bieb. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Pusciirinia scilloides. Adam in Nov. act. Petrop. Marsch. 



Cent. 2. t 91. 

 Puschkinia scilloides; foliis radicalibus geminis. Fl. Tavr. 



Cauc. 1. p. 211. et. 3. p. 266. 

 Adamsia scilloides. Willd. Enum. suppl. p. 16. 



Descr. Stature and habit of Scilla amaena. Leaves ra- 

 dical, two or three, lanceolate, striate, concave, sheathing-, 

 erect. Scape very little longer than the leaves, bearing* a ter- 

 minal corymb of about six flowers, white, streaked and tinged 

 "with a delicate blue : footstalks unequal, lower ones much the 

 longest. Corolla six-parted : lacinice patent, lanceolate. Nec- 

 tarium half the length of the Iaciniae, tubular, divided half 

 Way into six connivent laciniae, unequally toothed at the point. 

 Anthers yellow, bilocular, on very short filaments attached to 

 the upper part of the tube of the nectary. Germen superior, 

 oval, marked with six longitudinal lines, three-celled, with 

 many globular, shining ovules. Style somewhat longer than 

 the tube of the nectary : stigma obtuse, lobular. 



This plant differs from Scilla and Ornithogalum by the 

 nectarium or corona, which perhaps may be considered as 

 formed by the union of six broad filaments, the free part ex- 



tendins: 



