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[ Scilla . 
ft. high. Bulbs numerous. Spatha of one deciduous leaf Flowers 
on longish peduncles, which are thickened upwards, few, erect, red- 
dish, green on the keels, shorter than the stamens, whose filaments , as 
well as the anthers, are protruded. A. compaction Thuill. is a form of 
this species, in which the umbel is composed of bulbs only, without 
flowers. 
6. A. sphterocephalum L. ( [small round-headed G.) ; umbel 
globose without bulbs, stem leafy below, leaves subcylindrical 
channelled above smooth fistular, spatha 2-valved short, stamens 
twice as long as the perianth the alternate ones 3-cleft, middle 
point longer than the lateral ones as long as the entire part of 
the filament, bulb accompanied by stalked offsets. E. B. S. 
t. 2813. 
St. Vincent’s Rocks, Bristol. Sands of St. Aubin’s Bay, Jersey. 
If- 6,7. 
***** Leaves not fistulose, all radical. Stamens all simple, 
7. A. *triquetrum L. {triangular- stalked G.) ; perianth sub- 
campanulate, segments oblong about twice as long as the 
stamens, leaves of spatha nearly equal, leaves linear acutely 
keeled not attenuated into a petiole, scape acutely triangular. 
Hedges in Guernsey. if. 5, 6. — Flowers white. This is a south 
of Europe plant : even in France it is confined to the southern 
provinces, so that we have no doubt that in Guernsey it has escaped 
from gardens, or been intentionally sown ; it is now however quite 
naturalized there. 
8. A. ursinum L. {broad-leaved G., or Ramsons); perianth 
spreading, umbel nearly plane, leaves ovato-lanceolate on foot- 
stalks, scape bluntly triangular. E. B. t. 122. 
Moist woods and hedge-banks, frequent, 'if., 4 — 6. — Flowers 
white. Umbels without bulbs, level-topped. Spatha of 2 ovato-lan- 
ceolate leaves. 
[ Allium ambiguum Sm. (E. B. S. t. 2803) has been found a little 
above Rochester, and at Eye-Castle Hill, Suffolk, but is not a 
native of this country. It differs from the other two of this section 
by the terete scape, umbels with bulbs, and flowers pink ; the leaves 
are narrow, and do not taper into a petiole.] 
10. Scilla Linn. Squill. 
Perianth of 6 sepals, spreading and deciduous. Filaments 
filiform, glabrous, inserted on the base of the perianth. — 
Flowers blue or purple, racemose or corymbose , on a leafless 
scape, without a spatha. Bracteas membranous or obsolete. — 
Name: dsqyl, in Arabic; also rnaXXa, in Greek, perhaps from 
okiWuj, to dry up ; in allusion to its medical properties. 
1. S. verna Huds. {vernal S.); bulb coated, raceme in a 
hemispherical few-flowered corymb, bracteas lanceolate obtuse 
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