616 LILI AGILE. 



was named non-scriptus, not written. It is sometimes, 

 though incorrectly, called Hair-bell ; the true Hair-bell 

 being Campanula rotundifolia. Modern botanists have 

 removed it from the genus Hyacinthus into that which 

 it at present occupies. FL May, June. Perennial. 



6. SCILLA (Squill). 



1. S. verna (Vernal Squill). Flowers in a corymb ; 

 bracts narrow ; leaves linear, appearing with the flowers. 

 Sea-coast in the west and north of England. A lovely 

 little plant, 3 4 inches high, with corymbs, or flat 

 clusters of blue, star-like flowers. The turfy slopes of 

 the sea-coast of Cornwall are in many places as thickly 

 studded with these pretty flowers as inland meadows 

 are with Daisies. In a few weeks after flowering no 

 part of the plant is visible but the dry capsules, con- 

 taining black, shining seeds. FL May. Perennial. 



2. S. autumndlis (Autumnal Squill). Flowers in an 

 erect cluster ; bracts ; leaves appearing after the 

 flowers. Dry pastures, especially near the sea, not 

 common. About the same size as the last, but less 

 beautiful. Flowers, purplish blue. FL August 

 October. Perennial. 



7. ORNITHOGALUM (Star of Bethlehem). 



1. 0. Pyrendicum (Spiked Star of Bethlehem). 

 Flowers in a long spiked cluster. Woods, not common ; 

 very abundant in the neighbourhood of Bath, where the 

 spikes of unexpanded flowers are often exposed for sale 

 as a pot-herb. A bulbous plant, with long, narrow 

 leaves, which wither very early in the season, and a 

 leafless stalk about 2 feet high, bearing a long erect 

 cluster of greenish- white flowers. Fl. June, July. 



* 0. umbelldtum (Common Star of Bethlehem), though 

 not an English plant, is not unfrequently found in the 



