. 
S. uniflora (one-flowered). 
S. versicolor (various-coloured). 
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Scilla—continued. 
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Fig. 450, SCILLA SIBIRICA, showing Habit and detached 
—* Single Flower. 
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lines long ; scapes one to six, fleshy, 3in. to 6in. long. February. 
l. two to four, ascending, narrow, lorate, at length 4in. to 6in. 
long, four to six lines broad, slightly cucullate. Europ. Russia, 
Siberia, &c., 1796. Hardy. See Fig. 450. (A. B. R. 355; 
L. B. C. 151.) SYNS. S. amena sibirica (B. M. 1025), S. amenula 
(B. M. 2408), S. uniflora. 
S. socialis (social). fl., perianth greenish, rounded-campanulate, 
żin. long, the segments falcate ; pedicels {in. long, the lower ones 
- drooping; raceme dense, twenty to thirty-flowered, oblong, 14in. 
to 2in. long, lin. broad ; scape firm, terete, unspotted, 2in. to ŝin. 
long. Spring. J. three or four, spreading, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, 2in. to 2sin. long, fin. to lin. broad, slightly narrowed at 
base, pale glaucous-green and spotted on the face. Cape of Good 
Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 180.) 
ò 13in. broad; 
flexuous, din. to 4in. lo : 
late, 6in. to 8i > lżin. ljin. broad, pale glaucous-green, 
wi f green and purplish blotches. Cape of Good Hope, 
Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 187.) 
S. sub-glauea (rather glaucous). fl, perianth greenish outside, 
purple within, oblong-campanulate, jin. long; pedicels six to 
seven lines long, the lower ones drooping ; raceme rather loose, 
thirty to forty-flowered, 3in. to 4in. long, 14in. or rather more 
broad; scape spotted, din. to 4in. long. Spring. J. tive or six, 
lorate-lanceolate, 9in, to 10in. long, lin. broad, acute, distinctly 
narrowed at base, pale glaucous-green on the face, purple-spotted 
at back. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 186.) 
S. tricolor (three-coloured).: fl., perianth green, the segments 
oblong; filaments bright mauve-purple; lower pedicels spreading, 
jin. or more long ; raceme dense, oblong-conical, 2in. to 3in. long, 
iin. to ldin. broad; scape flexuous, terete, 6in. te 8in. long. 
Spring. l. six or seven, lanceolate, erecto-patent, glabrous, 1ft. 
long, 2in. broad, narrowed to lin. at the channelled base, dark 
a green, blotched-an the face with lighter green, and on the back 
with claret-brown. Port Elizabeth, 1880. Greenhouse. 
A synonym of S. sibirica. 
verra (spring). Sea Onion. jt. fragrant; perianth bright blue, 
in. in diameter ; bracts as long as the pedicels, or longer ; lower 
icels }in. long ;-raceme six to twelve-flowered, sub-corymbose 
or deltoid, Zin. to ljin. broad ; scapes one or two, shorter than 
the leaves, April and May. l. preceding the flowers, linear, 
sub-obtuse, Jin. to 10in. long, gin. to in. | recurved, con- 
cave. Europe (Britain). (Sy. En. B. 1527; F. D. 568, under 
name of S. bifolia.) 
F — ianth whitish, tinged 
with green, tin. long, the segments lignlate, — obtuse ; 
anthers blue; lower — at length spreading, l}in. to 2in. 
long; raceme rather dense, fifty to eighty-flowered, bin. to 8in. 
long, 34in. broad ; scape erect, 6in. to 8in. long. Spring. l. six 
to eight, glabrous, ascending, linear-lorate, 6in. to 9in, long, four 
to six lines broad, green on both sides, acute and narrowed at 
apex. Cape of Good Hope, 1872. Greenhouse. (Ref. B. 305.) 
S. villosa (villous). /l., perianth blue, sin, or rather more long, 
the se nt: ptic, rather obtuse; pedicels erecto-patent, the 
lower ones in. to llin. long ; raceme sub-corymbose, six to eight- 
flow ; Scape 2in. to gin. long. Spring. J. three or four, lorate, 
reading, din. to Sin. long, jin. to żin. broad, ciliated, loosely 
oe — F face, channelled below. Barbary, 1831. Hardy. 
(B. M. x 
S. zebrina (zebra-st#iped). A. perianth greenish and purple, 
rounded-campanulate, łin. long; licels tin. to 4in. long, the 
lower ones drooping ; suing — thirty to forty-flowered ; 
4in. to bin. long, spotted below. Spring. l. tive or six, 
igulate-lanceolate, nearly erect, 8in. to 12in. long, lin. to lłin. 
broad, acute, slightly narrowed us-green above, 
— copiously Eara Sire 
t base also wit ofizoni ; s, passing into 
purple. Cape of Good Hope, 1862. Greenhousë (Ref. B. 185.) 
'SCIMITAR PODS. The pods of Entada scandens. 
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— 
S. setacets (bristly). A. spikelets one to three, lateral, 
SCINDAPSUS (from Skindapsos, an old Greek name 
for an Ivy-like plant), Orp. Aroidew (Aracew). A genus 
comprising about nine species of tall, robust, climbing, 
stove shrubs, natives of tropical Asia, the Indian Archi- 
pelago, New Guinea, and the Fiji Islands, Flowers all- 
perfect, densely disposed on a sessile, cylindrical, inappen- 
diculate, hermaphrodite spadix ; spathe eymbiform, thick, 
longer than the spadix; peduncle terminal, short, thick. 
Leaves ovate, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; 
petioles elongated, sheathing at apex. S. officinalis, the 
only species introduced, requires culture similar to 
Caladium (which see), Some of the plants formerly 
included here are now placed under Rhaphidophora. 
S. argyrea —— L. thickly coriaceous, of a beautiful green, 
unspotted, or with numerous silvery spots, obliquely cordate- 
ovate, very inequilateral, 4in, to 6in. long, Shin. to 34in. broad, 
shortly and tely acuminate, the posterior lobes rounded ; 
petioles l}in, to 2in. long, Stem climbing, the internodes Sin. 
to 4in. long, Philippine Islands, 1859. Syn. Pothos argyrea 
(of — 
S. officinalis (officinal). fl., spathe 
within, four times as long as the thick peduncle, Ley. 
spadix as 
een outside, dirty-yellow 
date ; 
thick, attenuated at both ends. May. long as 
emar 
in. ; i 
— 
SCION. 
shoot. | 
‘SCIOPHYLLA. A synonym of Maianthemum 
(which see). 
SCIRPEZX. A tribe of Cyperacee. 
SCIRPUS (the old Latin name used by Pliny, &c., 
for a Rush). Club Grass or Rush. Including Holo- 
schenus and Isolepis. TRIBE Scirpew of ORD. Cyperacee. 
An extensive genus (about 300 species have been quoted) 
of stove, greenhouse, or hardy, annual or perennial, 
marsh or water plants, broadly dispersed. Flowers all 
hermaphrodite, or the upper ones rarely male, several or 
many to a spikelet ; stamens three or fewer ; inflorescence 
variable. Leaves few at the base of the stem, some- — 
times very long, sometimes small and grass-like, or all 
reduced to sheaths. Nine species are found in Britain, 
of which the best-known is S. lacustris. This grows 
freely in any boggy soil; it may be increased by seeds, 
by suckers, or by divisions. The other species may be 
similarly treated. 
Holoschcenus — — Holoschenus, varié ). 
* spikelets minute, crowded into Canda e a to fin. in 
diameter ; stigmas . Summer. Stems erect, terete, with 
A twig employed for grafting; a young 
on — sea-coasts in Europe (North Devon), North Africa, 
and Siberi: : Fa ae 
S. lacustris (stream-loving), Bast; Bullrush. j., glumes 
strap-sha: in streams. Stems terete or nearly so, to 
high, * Europe (Britain), &c. This plant is extensively 
used in making | mats, &c., parts of 
Europe. 
S. (riverside-loving). — ikes — and clustered, 
in a one-sided, compound, umbel-like panicle, principal rays 
of which moa mepes the involucral leaf; involucellate bracts _ 
small, scale-like, and rusty-scarious ; scales of the rusty 
chestnut-brown, scarious, with a salient midrib extended into a 
mucronate point. Culm terete, v 
running rootstock, naked ; the sheaths at the base be 5 a SNORE 
and imperfect leaf, orinone. Extra-tropical . A fave 
plant for conservatory decoration. SYN. Jsolepis graci 
gardens). i 
jin. long, ovoid ; glumes and brown, ovate, obtuse. J 
spike rusty- or 
tall and stout, from a deep 
