LILIACE®. 199 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a filbert, but often much 
larger, with the outside coat brown. Leaves only beginning to appear 
when the flowers are expanded, and not fully developed till the com- 
mencement of winter, dark green, flaccid, at length recurved and 
flexuous, 2 to 5 inches long. Scape 3 to 9 ‘inches high, two or three 
often produced one after the other from the same bulb. Flowering 
raceme } to 1 inch long, but in fruit sometimes lengthening till it is 
3 or 4 inches. Perianth leaves 1 inch long, oval- oblong, ‘spreading 
while in flower, afterwards connivent, the colour varying from pale 
purple to nearly white, the midrib always darker, the dried flowers 
much darker purple. Anthers purple. Pedicels elongating ,and 
curving inwards till the fruit is quite erect. Capsule subglobdlar- 
turbinate, trigonous, about the size of hemp-seed. Seeds black, 
angular. 
Autumnal Squill. 
French, Scille d’automne. 
SPECIES I1—SCILLA VERNA. Huds. 
Pirate MDXXVILI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXIII. Fig. 1010. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 665. 
S. umbellata, Ramond; D.C. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 213. 
Bulb coated. Leaves several, appearing in early spring before the 
flowers, and withering at the close of summer, broadly linear, widely 
channelled. Flowers rather few, in a hemispherical corymbose raceme. 
Pedicels ascending-erect both in flower and in fruit; the lower ones 
longer than the flowers, the upper shorter. Bracts about as long as 
the pedicels, scarious, transparent white, acuminate. Perianth leaves 
spreading, pale slaty-blue with a darker stripe down the middle of 
each. Filaments attached only by the base to the perianth leaves. 
On sandy pastures and on ledges of rocks on the sea coast. Local. 
On the west coast it extends from Cornwall and Devon north to 
Argyle, and reappears in Sutherland, Orkney and Shetland; but on the 
east coast it is extremely rare, occurring in Northumberland near 
Howick, and between Craster and Dunstanborough; again at Guns- 
green, Berwick; but after that it does not occur till near Fraser- 
borough, Aberdeenshire; and at Gamrie and Banff. In Ireland it is 
very local, and confined to the east and north coasts. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a hazel-nut, and seldom 
larger than a nutmeg. Leaves recurved, 2 to 9 inches long, broadest 
beyond the middle, deep green. Scape rarely more than one from 
