520 Liliacece S cilia. 



In the following the bracts are nearly as long as the 



pedicels. 



4. 8. campanulata (Endymion campanulata). A South 



European species resembling our common Blue-bell. A large 



plant with leaves about a foot 

 high and an inch wide. Scapes 

 equalling the leaves. Flowers 

 bell-shaped, variable in colour 

 from deep blue and rose to 

 white. South Europe, flower- 

 ing in May. 



5. S. natans (fig. 253), syn. 

 Hyacinthus non-scriptus. 

 Blue-bell, Wild Hyacinth. - 

 This is too well known to need 

 description. It varies in colour 

 like the last, though the pre- 

 vailing colour is blue. 



6. S. Peruviana. Named 

 in error, being a native 

 of South-western Europe. A 

 much larger plant than any of 

 the foregoing, 12 to 18 inches 

 high, with broadly -linear 

 ciliate leaves. Scape stout ; 

 flowers very numerous, deep 

 blue. Stamens white ; bracts 

 solitary. May and June. 



7. 8. Itdlica. A similar 

 but smaller plant than the 

 last, with pale blue flowers 

 having two bracts at the base 

 of each pedicel. Leaves bright 

 green, lanceolate. There is a 

 white variety of this and the 

 last. 



16. ORNITHOGALUM. 



Fig. 253. Scilla nutans. (i nat. size.) 



This genus differs from 



Scilla in having hypogynous stamens, and the nerve of the 

 perianth -segments of more than one rib. And the flowers 

 are either white or yellow, never blue or red. Dwarf bulbous 



