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SCILLA Peruviana; var. discolor. 
Dingy-flowered Peruvian Squill. 
HEXANDRIA M ONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LiliacEjE. 
SCILLA. L. 
S. peruviana ; foliis lato-lanceolatis patentibus planis margine ciliatis scapo 
longioribus, racemis confertis conicis, bracteis lanceolatis elongatis ner- 
vosis, capsulis mucronatis? Gussone FI. Sic. 1 . 415 . 
S. peruviana. Linn. sp. pi. 442 . &c. 
discolor, sepalis petalisque jlavescenti-brunneis, ovario cceruleo. 
. Ornithogalum siculum floribus cinereo-carneis in rotundara metam fastigi- 
atis. Bonanni, t. 19 . ex Gussone. 
That the Peruvian Squill does not grow in Peru is well 
known, the name having been applied by LinnsBus in con- 
sequence of some erroneous statements of Clusius or Morison. 
Neither is it found in India, as one of its old synonvms 
would lead us to suppose. Its real country is Portugal, about 
Cmtra,. according to Brotero ; Algiers, where Desfontaines 
found it in corn-fields; Tripoli, on hill sides, according to 
Della Celia ; Corsica, near S. Bonifacio, where Seraphini 
found it; clayey hills in Sicily, as we learn from Gussone, and 
even the sterile hills outside the gate Degli angioli of Genoa, 
as we are assured by Viviani. 
The present plant was sent from Algiers to the Hon. and 
Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester, and therefore agrees 
in its native country with S. peruviana. At first sight, how- 
ever, it seems _ so different that it cannot be regarded as 
the same species. We must, however, confess our inability, 
after a careful examination, to discover any other distinction 
between them than that of the colour of the flowers, which 
aie neither white nor bright blue, as in the previously known 
states of S. peruviana, but a dirty pale fawn-colour. The 
seed-vessels have exactly the mucronate form ascribed to 8. 
peruviana. 
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