94 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nartheciuni. 



Per. May. 



Magdalen College Meadow. Miss Edwards. 



SCILLA. Squill. 



S. nutans. Hare-bell Sq. Wild Hyacinth. Leaves 

 linear. Cluster drooping. Flowers hanging down, 

 cylindrical-bell-shaped ; the points of their petals bent 

 back. Bracteas in pairs. E. B. o77' Hyacinthus 

 non scriptus. C. 2. 18. Sb. H. anglicus. G. E. 111. 



Tliickets, groves, hushy fields, hedges. 



Per. il/fw/. 



Bulb, solid, acrid, poisonous, abounding with starch mucilage. Ls. 

 acute, limber. Stalk erect. El. blue, sweet-scented. Bract. 

 in pairs, linear, acute, blue, like the fi.-stalks. 

 An ornamental and graceful plant. Fresh roots poisonous, may 



be converted into starch. 



Far. Fl. white, to flesh-coloured. 



(Scilla autumndlis. Autumnal S. E. B. 78. H. 

 autumnalis minor. G. E. 110. Clifton, Gloucester- 

 shire. Tu7\) 



(HYACINTHUS. Hyacinth. 



H. 7'acem6sus. Starch H. Flowers egg-shaped, with 

 six furrows ; the upper ones stalkless and abortive. 

 Leaves linear, channelled, limber. E. B. 1931. C. 

 Mag. 122. H. botryoides coer ulcus. G. E. 118. 



Grassy fields, sandy soil, or among ruins. Near Newbury, Berks. 



Sm. Eng. El. 

 Per. May. 

 El. dark-blue, smelling like wet starch.) 



(NARTHE'CIUM. Bog-asphodel. 



N. ossifragum.^ Lancashire Bog-asphodel. Cluster 

 uninterrupted. One bractea at the base, the other 

 above the middle, of each partial stalk. E. B. 535. 

 H. L. 139. Asphodelus Lancastriae. G. E. 95. 



Black, turfy hogs. Coleshill Bog, Warwickshire. Pn. Windsor 



Great Park. Tur. 

 Per. July, August. 

 Ls. sword-shaped. Stem, simple. El. yellow, with red anth.) 



' Lat. i. e. bone-breaking ; from a supposed effect in the plant fed upon, to 

 soften the bones of cattle. 



