





HEXANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. Anthericum. 



331 



expanding, deciduous : 



SCII/LA. BIoss. 6 petals, 



Filaments thread- shaped. 



S. Leaves strap-shaped, narrow: flowers in a spike-like autumnafts. 



corymbus : fruit-stalks naked; ascending, about as 

 long as the flower, 



Curt.-E. bot. 78-Clus. i. 185. 1-Dod. 21 9. \-Lob. obs. 53. 3 



-Get. em. 110. l-Ger. 98. 4. 



Root bulbous, coated. Leaves numerous, much shorter than 

 the stalks. Mr. Woodward. Flowers rather forming a bunch 

 than a corymbus ; blueish purple. « 



Autumnal Squill. Dry pastures. St. Vincent's Rock, near 

 Bristol ; Lizard Point, Cornwall; Black Heath ; near Dit ton, 

 on Moulsey Hurst, over against Hampton Court. [Common, near 



Chace Water Mine, Cornwall. Mr. Watt.] 



P. Aug. Sept. 



S. Root solid : flowers nearly upright, without floral leaves : bifo'lia 



root-leaves 2, spear-shaped. 



J acq. austr. llf-ff. bot. 24r-Cltts. 184. 3-ZW. 2\§-Fuchs. 

 %S1-Jiauh. hist, ii. 57.9. 2. 3~Pet. 67. 5. 



Leaves C, rarely 3. 



Lloss. blue. 



Flowers in a bunch, mostly pointing 



one way 



This is introduced in English bot. on the authority of Buddie's 

 Herbarium in the British Museum ; but no particular place of 

 growth is assigned. Jacquin tells us that it is found in islands of 

 the Danube, and in woods upon hills, flowering in March. P. 



S. Bunch of few flowers, furnished with floral leaves: ver'na. 



blossoms bell-shaped : leaves from the root, strap- 

 shaped, channelled : bulb-coated. 



Dicks, h. s.-Fl. dan.-56%-E. bot. 23. 



In its wild state the root-leaves are seldom more than 2, and 

 the flowers from 4 to (i. Floral leaves longer than the fruit- 

 stalks. BIoss. blue. 



Vernal Squill. Meadows and pastures. Cliffs on the sea shore 

 *n Anglesea and Wales ; about St. Ive's, and other places in 

 Cornwall. I have received specimens of it under the title of 

 S. bifolia, but that species is not a native of these islands. Huds. 

 Gloddaeth, Caernarvonshire. [Cliffs on the Isle of Man. Mr. 

 Hall.— Near Redruth, Cornwall. Mrs. Watt. Near Pen. 



sance.] 



P. May, June, 



ANTHE'RICUM. BIoss. 6 petals, expanding, 



caps, oblong, superior, 3 -celled. 



