BLUEBELL I21 
ripe for dispersal around the parent plant, the stems being jerked by 
passers-by or vibrating in the wind, jerking out the seeds. 
The Bluebell is a humus-loving plant, growing in a humus soil, 
usually sand soil, or clay soil with humus mixed. 
It is attacked by a Fungus, Uromeyces sctllarum. 
Sezlla, Dioscorides, is Greek and Latin for sea onion or squill, or 
from scydlo, | injure, because the tuber is a violent poison; and the 
second name (Latin) means, not written, because of some supposed 
characters like Ai on the petals. 
It is called Bell-bottle, Hare Bell, Wood Bells, Bloody Man's 
Photo. J, H. Crabtree 
BLUEBELL (Sez//a non-scripta, Hoftm. and Link.) 
Fingers, Blue Bell, Blue Bottle, Blue Gramfer Greygles, Blue Rocket, 
Crake-feet, Craw-feet, Craw-flower, Crawtaes, Craw-tees, Cross-flower, 
Crow-bells, Crow-flower, Crowfoot, Crow-leek, Crow-toes, Cuckoo, 
Cuckoo-flower, Cuckoo’s Stockings, Culverkeys, Culvers, Gowk’s-hose, 
Gramfer-Greygles, Snap Grass, Greygle, Guckoos, Hyacinth, Crow 
Leek, Ring o’ Bells. 
Ring o' Bells is an expressive name, referring to the resemblance 
of the spike to a symphonia or ring of bells, which is a number of 
tuned bells hung on a stick and struck with a hammer. 
It is an ornamental plant grown in gardens and shrubberies, and 
often white or pink. 
ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS :— 
302. Scilla non-scripta, Hoffm. and Link.—Scape tall, leaves 
shorter, linear, furrowed, flowers blue, in drooping raceme, campanu- 
late, capsule triquetrous. 
