SCIL'LA PERUVIA'NA. 
PERUVIAN SQUILL. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACEX. 
Native of 
Heia^ht. Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Spain. 
9 inches. ] May, June. 
Perennial 
in 1607. 
No. 971. 
Scilla is a name that vras used bj' the Greeks, 
and it is supposed, was applied to the Scilla mari- 
tima, or officinal squill. Its signification is to 
diy. The squill is said to “dry uji humours.” 
The specific name. Peruviana, was given by 
Clusius, a French botanist — the contemporary of 
our Gerard. This must have arisen from erro- 
neous information, for the plant is not a native 
of Pern, but of Sj>ain. The error was corrected at 
an early period, for Parkinson, in his “ Paradisus 
TeiTestris,” says of the plant, “ It is most gene- 
rally receiued by the name Hyacinthus Pemanus, 
from the first imposer thereof, that is, the lacinth 
of PeiTi : but I had rather giue the name agreeing 
most fitly vnto it, and call it as it is indeede Hya- 
cinthus Stellatus Boeticus, The Spanish Stariy 
lacinth ; and because it is the greatest that I 
know hath come from thence, I call it The great 
Starry lacinth of Spaine, or Spanish lacinth.” 
The Scilla Pemriana is a very showy flower, 
“ bearing at the toppe a great head or bush of 
flowers, fashioned in the beginning, before they 
bee blowne or separated, very like to a Cone or 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
