198 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
GENUS XTU7.—S CILLA. Linn. 
Perianth coloured, blue or lilac, funnelshaped- or cupshaped-rotate 
or cylindrical or bellshaped ; perianth leaves 6, free, deciduous or sub- 
persistent and marcescent, spreading or connivent, without a nectari- 
ferous pore at the base, the outer leaves not herbaceous on the back. 
Stamens 6, free, or the three outer ones adherent to the perianth 
leaves; anthers affixed by their back to the filaments, extrorse. Style 
filiform or trigonous; stigma minute, obtusely trigonous or entire. Cap- 
sule obtusely trigonous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds few or several, 
angular or subglobose; testa hard, black or fuscous, nearly smooth. 
Herbs with tunicated or very rarely scaly bulbs, and linear or linear- 
lorate radical leaves, or with rather broad channelled leaves. Flowers 
small or large, on leafless scapes, racemose, normally blue or lilac, but 
in many of the species varying to pink or white, open in all weather. 
The name of this genus comes from the Greek word cxvA\w, to excite or disturb, 
as an emetic does the stomach. 
Sus-Genus I.—EU-SCILLA. Coss. 
Perianth leaves free, spreading while in flower; filaments adnate 
to the perianth leaves only at the base. Seeds angular, without a 
strophiole at the base. 
SPECIESI—-SCILLA AUTUMNALIS. Linn. 
Prare MDXXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXIII. Fig. 1012. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 664. 
Bulb coated. Leaves several, appearing in autumn after the 
flowers, and remaining green through the winter, very narrowly 
linear, semicylindrical, channelled above. Flowers rather few, in an — 
oblong raceme, spreading on all sides. , Pedicels spreading-ascend- 
ing in flower, incurved-erect in fruit, longer than the flowers. — 
Bracts none. Perianth leaves spreading, pale purple with a darker 
stripe down the middle of each. Filaments attached only by the base — 
to the perianth leaves. 
In sandy and gravelly pastures, and on commons. Rather local, 
and confined to the south of England. It occurs in Cornwall, Devon, 
Isle of Wight, Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, and Gloucester. 
England. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
