SCIL'LA CAMPANULA'! A. 
var. alba. 
CAMPANULATE SQUILL. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ASPHODELACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Spain. 
1 foot. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1683. 
No. 652. 
Scilla is derived from the Greek skillo, to dry. 
The name alludes to the medicinal drying proper- 
ties attending the external use of the plant to which 
it was applied. Our Scilla maritima is supposed to 
have been the skilla of the Greeks, but is now 
not used as an external remedy. 
The coloured varieties of Scilla campanulata are 
more common than the white, and less beautiful. 
In the borders the fine racemes of delicately white 
little bells, in the month of May, are very orna- 
mental, and present themselves at that season when 
most desirable — when crocuses and their attendants 
have disappeared, and the summer flowers are only 
preparing to greet us with their presence. A small 
collection of Scillas would progressively afford 
flowers from the beginning of March to the end of 
June, Scilla Sibirica; bifolia — blue, white, and 
red ; amcena ; and campanulata, are all hardy and 
desirable. 
Scilla campanulata increases freely ; but will be 
grown in the greatest perfection by taking up the 
bulbs when the leaves decay, and planting them a 
few inches apart. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 263. 
