4QO 



LIIJACE/E 



lemies and globular, 6-merous [lowers in a stalked, bracteate 

 raceme; stajnens mcXuAeA; /r!//7 a 3-chainbcrcd capsule. (Name 

 from the musk-like scent ) 



I. .1/. raccmosiim {Gra|)e, or Starch, Hyacinth). — Leaves slender, 

 prostrate, semicylindric, 6 — 12 in. long; seape shorter, bearing a 

 short; cylindric, many-flowered, dense raceme of small, dark blue, 



ovoid flowers with minute 

 brads, the stalks lengthen- 

 ing after flowering. — .Sandy 

 fields in the eastern coun- 

 \*S^^^,.. • ties; rare. — Fl. April, 



May. Perennial. 



9. SciLLA (Squill). — 

 Herbaceous plants with 

 tunicate hidbs ; radical, 

 linear leaves : flwiners 6- 

 merous, in a raceme ; 

 periajith - segments free, 

 S(_ireading, blue, purple, or 

 white, deciduous ; fruit a 

 3-chambered, many-seeded 

 capsule. (Name, the Clas- 

 sical Latin name of the 

 group.) 



1 . S. a II t u ti! I! a lis 

 (Autumnal Squill). — A 

 little plant with a bulb the 

 si/e of a walnut ; leaves 

 3^ — 6 in. long, appearing in 

 autunui after the shortly 

 racemose, reddish-purple 

 ftinaers ; braels absent ; 

 *pcriaiith - segments free, 

 spreading ; a)itliers purple. 

 ^I'r)' pastures, especially 

 near the sea, in the soutli ; 



sciLLA viikNA il\-rnat ^KjiniT). 



rare.-- 



July ■(.)ctober. Perennial. 

 2. S. ver,ia (Wriral Si-|uiU). — A lovely little plant, about the 

 same si/e as the last ; -with leeives brotider anil produced in spring 

 before the corymbose clusters of fragrant, blue, star-like llowers^ 

 which have lanceolate /';(i(7,<. — Sea-coast in the west and *notth ; 

 uncommon. The turfy slopes of the sea-coast of ( 'ornwall arc in 

 many places as thickly studded with thijsc pretty flowers as iifland 



