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SCILLA MARITIMA. OFFICINAL SQUILL, 



Or, SEA ONION. 



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STNONTMJ. Scilla. Fbarm. Lond, 'd Edlnh. Scilla vulgaris 



radice rubra. Bauh. Pin, p, 73. Rail Hijl, p-, 1164. Scilla 



rubra, five Pancratium verum. Park, Parad/p, 133. Scilla rubra 

 magna vulgaris, y, Baiib, Hift, ii. p. 615. Pancratium Clufii. 

 Gerard Emac, p, 172. Ornithogalon maritimum, feu fcilla radice 

 rubra, l^ourn, Lijl, p, 381. ^.Scilla radice alba. Baiih, l,c. 



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■Clafs Hexandria. Ord» Monogynia. Lin, Geft, Plant, /^i(^. 



EJf, Gen, Ch, Cor, 6-petala, patens, decidua. Filame?ita £liformia. 



ISp, Ch. S. nudiflora, bradeis refradls. 



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THE root is large, perennial, bulbous, coated, of a reddilli hue, 

 abounding with a tenacious juice, and furnifhed vv^ith many white 

 fibres, which iffue from its bafe v the ftem is round, fmooth, fucculent, 

 and rifes two or three feet in height ; the leaves are fword-fhaped, 

 radical, fmooth, pointed, long, and of a deep green colour : the flowers 

 are whitifh, produced in a long clofe fpike upon purplifh peduncles, 

 and appear in April and May : the bradtese are linear, twifted, and 

 tleciduous : it has no calyx : the corolla is compofed of fix petals, which 

 .are ovate, patent, with a reddiih mark in the middle: the filaments 

 .are fix, tapering, ihorter than the corolla, and furnifhed with oblong 

 .-antheras, placed tranfverfcly : the germen is roundilh, fupporting a 

 fimple ftyle about the length of the filaments, and furnifhed with a 

 fimple fligma: the capfule is oblong, fmooth, marked with three fur- 

 .rows, and divided into three cells, which contain many roundifh feeds. 



This plant is a native of Spain, Sicily, and Syria, growing in fandy 

 fituations on the fea coafl, and hence the name maritima. It was 

 firfl cultivated in England at the botanic garden at Oxford about the 

 J&^x 1 648,' The red rooted variety has been fuppofed to be more 



Vide, Hon, Oxon, ed. I. /. 48 



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