ORD. XLVI. Liliacee. 4% 
SCILLA MARITIMA. OFFICINAL SQUILL, or, SEA ONION. 
SYNONYMA. Scilla. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Scilla vulgaris 
radice rubra. Bauh. Pin. p. 73.  Raii Hist. p. 1164. Scilla 
rubra, sive Pancratium verum. Park. Parad. p. 133. Scilla rubra 
magna vulgaris. J. Bauh. Hist. ii. p. 615. . Pancratium Clusii. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 172. Ornithogalon maritimum, seu scilla radice 
rubra. Tourn. Inst. p. 381. §& Scilla radice alba. Bauh: 1. c. 
Class Hexandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 491. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor, 6-petala, patens, decidua, Filamenta filiformia. 
Sp. Ch. S, nudiflora, bracteis refractis. | 
THE root is large, perennial, bulbous, coated, of a reddish hue, 
abounding with a tenacious juice, and furnished with many white 
fibres, which issue from its base: the stem is round, smooth, suc- 
culent, and rises two or three feet in height: the leaves are sword- 
shaped, radical, smooth, pointed, long, and of a deep green colour: 
the flowers are whitish, produced in a long close spike upon 
purplish peduncles, and appear in April and May: the bracteze 
are linear, twisted, and deciduous: it has no calyx: the corolla is 
composed of six petals, which are ovate, patent, with a reddish 
mark in the middle: the filaments are six, tapering, shorter than 
the corolla, and furnished with oblong anther, placed trans- 
versely: the germen is roundish, supporting a simple style about 
the length of the filaments, and furnished with a simple stigma: 
the capsule is oblong, smooth, marked with three furrows, and 
divided into three cells, which contain many roundish seeds, 
This plant is a native of Spain, Sicily, and Syria, growing in 
sandy situations on the sea coast, and hence the name maritima. 
It was first cultivated in England at the botanic garden at Oxford 
about the year 1648.". The red rooted variety has been supposed 
_ * Vide Hort, Oxon. ed. 1, p. 48. 
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