LILIACE^. 19!) 



Bulb flowering when about the size of a filbert, but often much 

 larger, with tlie outside coat brown. Leaves only beginning to appear 

 M'heii tlie flowers are expanded, and not fully developed till the com- 

 mencement of winter, dark green, flaccid, at length recurved and 

 flcxuous, 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 i 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 pur()le. Pedicels elongating and 

 curving inwards till the fruit is quite erect. Capsule subglobular- 

 turbinate, trigonous, about the size of hemp-seed. Seeds black, 

 angular. 



Autumnal Squill. 

 Frencli, Scille d'automne. 



SPECIES n.— SCILLA VERNA. Emh. 



Plate MDXXVII. 



Bcich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Hclv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXIII. Fig. 1010. 



Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. Exsicc. No. GG5. 



S. unibellata, Ramond; B.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 Fra.ser- 

 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, l)roadc.st 

 beyond the middle, deep green. Scape rarely more than cue Irom 



