520 Litiacee—Scilla. 
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. Svuth Europe, flower- 
ing in May. 
5. S. nitans (fig. 253), syn. 
Hyacinthus non-seviptus. 
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. Peruvicna—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 aud June. 
7. S. [télicu.—- A similar 
but smaller plant than the 
last, with pale blue flowers 
having two bracts at the base 
of each pediecl. Leaves bright 
green, lancevlate. There is a 
\ white variety of this and the 
Fi last. 
a 
li, ORNITHOGALUM. 
Fig, 253. Scilla nutans, (4 nat. size.) ; ea 
This genus differs from 
Scilla in having hypogynous stamens, and the nerve of the 
perianth-segments of more than one vib. And the flowers 
are either white or yellow, never blue or red. Dwarf bulbous 
