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ScILLA AM@:NULA. FEW-FLOWERED SqUuILL. 
Class and Order. 
Buckie ab asleden 
Generic Character. — ; 
_ Cor. 6-petala, patens, decidua. _Filamenta filiformia. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ScinLa amenula; scapo quinqu-angulo, racemo trifloro, 
pedunculis nutantibus, corollis campanulato-patulis, 
bracteis brevissimis. Horn. Hort. Hafn. p. 331. 
Scuta azurea. Goldbach in Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Scrut. 
Mosq. 5, p. 125. 
Scinta ameena. Redouté Lil. t. 130. nec. t. 298. 
cernua; scapo paucifloro, floribus lateralibus nu- 
tantibus campanulatis, pedicellis coloratis brevissimis, 
bracteis minimis. Flor. Cauc. t. 3. p. 266? exclusis 
synonymis omnibus preter Horneman et Goldbach. 
‘Cee 
ca. 
We have little doubt but that Scizua amena (Bot. Mag. 
No. 341), sibirica (No. 1025) and our present plant, are 
three distinct species. The latter has an ovate bulb with 
brown integuments, generally three leaves, at the time 
‘Of flowering scarcely two inches long, erect, divergent, 
ceolate. Scapes three or four, from the same root, an- 
» twice as long as the leaves, bearing from one to 
ee blue flowers. Corolla stellately patent. Filaments 
Subulate, longer than the germen, not half the pis 
of the petals. Anthers oblong, blue with n pollen. 
‘an orbicular, obscurely trigonous. Style shorter 
the Stamens. Stigma simple. 
of eta sibirica differs from amenula in its greater number 
leaves, which are broader upwards, and curved — 
the 
