1878 



* SCILLA Cupaniaiia. 



Cupanis Squill. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace^, § Scille^. 

 SCILLA.— Supra, vol. 16. fol. 1355. 



S. Ciqmniana ; foliis lanceolatis planis brevissime densissimeque ciliatis, coiymbo 

 paucifloro, capsulls rostratls. Romer et Schult. Sp.pl. 7. 559. 



S. Cupaiiiana. Gusson. prodr.Jl. Sic. I. 416. 



S. fistulosd. Rajincsque. 



Ornithogaluni coeruleum. Rafinesq. Caratt. 85. 



Hyacinthus stellatus coeruleus umbellatus latifolius. Cupani pamph. sic. vol. 1 . 

 t.20. 



Communicated by Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. from the 

 garden at Lacock Abbey. The bulbs were sent by the Hon. 

 William Strangways from Sicily, where they are found wild 

 near Villafrata, Ogliastro, and Castrogiovanni. 



A hardy bulb, of great rarity in this country, flowering 

 in June. Its bright blue pistil contrasts in a remarkable 

 manner with the dull purple of the remainder of the flower. 

 It is very near the Scilla, erroneously called peruviana, which 

 is also a Sicilian plant, but is altogether much smaller. 1 

 find the leaves edged with a broken cartilaginous margin, 

 rather than ciliated as Gussone is represented to describe 

 them. 



* Scclolio 1355. 



