BLUEBELL 121 



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, Uromyces scillarum. 



Scilla, Dioscorides, is Greek and Latin for sea onion or squill, or 

 from scyllo, I 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 (Scilla non-scripfa, Hoffm. 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 

 >rter, linear, furrowed, flowers blue, in drooping raceme, campanu- 

 e, capsule triquetrous. 



