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From the tree her step she turn’d; 
But first low reverence done, as to the power 
That dwelt within; whose presence had infus’d 
into the plant sciential sap deriv’d 
From nectar, drink of gods. Milton. 
SCIENTI'FICAL, or Scienti'fick, adj. [ scientia and 
fiacio, Lat] Producing demonstrative knowledge ; producing 
certainty.'—No man, who first trafficks into a foreign country, 
has any scientifick evidence that there is such a country, but 
by report, which can produce no more than a moral 
certainty ; that is, a very high probability, and such as there 
can be no reason to except against. South. —The systems 
of natural philosophy that have obtained, are to be read 
more to know the hypotheses, than with hopes to gain there 
a comprehensive, scientifical, and satisfactory knowledge of 
the works of nature. Locke. 
SCIENTIFICALLY, ado. In such a manner as to 
produce knowledge.—Sometimes it rests upon testimony, 
because it is easier to believe than to be scientifically 
instructed. Locke. 
SCIERIA [2f aefia,, Gr.], in Antiquity, a festival in 
honour of Bacchus, kept in Arcadia. 
It was so called, because that god's image was exposed 
vito ti) ckouIi, i. e. under an umbrella. At this time the 
women were beaten with scourges, in the same manner with 
the Spartan boys at the altar of Diana Orthia, which punish¬ 
ment they underwent in obedience to a command of the 
Delphian oracle. 
SC1GLIANO, an inland town of Italy, in the kingdom 
of Naples, in Calabria Citra. Population 5700. It stands 
near the great road leading from north to south; 12 miles 
south of Cosenza. 
SCIGLIO, or Scilla, a small town in the south of the 
kingdom of Naples, in the province of Calabria Ultra, on 
the strait of Messina, near the well known rock of Scylla. 
It has a strong castle, and 2000 inhabitants; 10 miles north 
of Reggio. See Scylla. 
SCIGLIO, a cape on the south-west coast of Naples, at 
the entrance into the straits of Messina. Lat. 38. 12. N. 
long. 16. 1. E. See Scylla. 
SCILLA [of Pliny, 'S.KiXka, or rather a-taWy of Theo¬ 
phrastus and Dioscorldes], in Botany, a genus of the class 
hexandria, order monogynia, natural order of coronariae 
asphodeli (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx none. Co¬ 
rolla : petals six, ovate, spreading very much, deciduous. 
Stamina: filaments six, awl-shaped, shorter by half than 
the corolla. Anthers oblong, incumbent. Pistil: germ 
roundish. Style simple, length of the stamens, deciduous. 
Stigma simple. Pericarp : capsule subovate, smooth, three- 
grooved, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, roundish. 
— Essential Character. Corolla six-petalled, spreading, 
deciduous. Filam, filiform. 
1. Scilla maritima, or officinal squill.—Naked flowered 
with refracted bractes.—Root very large, somewhat pear- 
shaped, composed of many coats as in the onion, and having 
several fibres coming out at the bottom, and striking deep 
in the ground. From the middle of the root arise several 
shining leaves, a foot long, and two inches broad at their 
base, lessening all the way to the top, where they end in 
points; they continue green all the winter, and decay in 
the spring: then the flower-stalk comes out, rising two feet 
high, naked about half way, and terminated by a pyramidal 
thyrse of flowers, which are white.—Native of Spain, 
Portugal, Italy, Barbary, and Syria, on sandy coasts. Desfon- 
taines says it is common in Barbary, in fields: flowering in 
autumn. In England it flowers in April and May. 
There are two varieties; one with a red, the other with a 
white root; but the white is generally preferred for medicinal 
use. 
2. Scilla lilio-hyacinthus, or lily-rooted squill.—Raceme 
few-flowered, peduncles without bractes, leaves lanceolate, 
pressed close to the ground, bulb scaly.—The stalk is slender, 
and rises a foot high; it is terminated by blue flowers; 
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which appear in June.—Native of Spain, Portugal, and the 
Pyrenees. 
3. Scilla Italica, or Italian squill.—Bulb roundish, solid, 
like that of the hyacinth. The leaves are very like those of 
the English hare-bells. Stem seven or eight inches high, 
terminated by clustered flowers of a pale blue colour; 
at first disposed in a sort of umbel or depressed spike, but 
afterwards drawing up to a point, and forming a conical 
corymb.—Miller affirms it to be a native of Portugal. Alli- 
ani says it is found in the county of Nice. 
4. Scilla tetraphylla, or four-leaved squill.—Stemless, 
flowers in buudles, leaves in fours ovate-lanceolate.—Root 
bulbous. Flowers shorter by half than the leaves: pedun¬ 
cles filiform-setaceous, one-flowered, very abundant.—Na¬ 
tive of Africa. 
5. Scilla Peruviana, or Peruvian squill.—Root large, 
solid, raised a little pyramidal in the middle, covered with 
a brown coat; from this come out before winter five or 
seven leaves, six or eight inches long, of a lucid green, 
keeled, and spreading almost flat on the ground. From the 
centre of these come out one, two or three scapes, thick, 
succulent, six or eight inches high, terminated by a conical 
corymb of flowers, upon pretty long pedicels. 
There are two varieties of this, one with a deep blue, and 
the other with a white flower. It has been long known in 
the English gardens by the name of hyacinth of Peru. How 
it came by that name is uncertain.—It is a native of Spain, 
Portugal and Barbary. 
6. Scilla Japonica, or Japan squill.—Scape erect, simple, 
smooth, a palm high. Bractes on the scape and below the 
flowers alternate, lanceolate, shorter than the interstices. 
Flowers subumbelled, on pedicels about a quarter of an inch 
in length. Corolla spreading, white-purple.—Nativeof Japan! 
7. Scilla amoena, or nodding squill.—Root large, solid, 
purplish, from which come out five or six leaves, lying on 
the ground, above a foot long, and an inch broad, keeled, 
channelled, and of a lucid green; from among these arise 
two, three or four purplish stalks, eight or nine inches high, 
sustaining towards the top five or six flowers, which come 
out singly from the side; they are of a violet-blue colour, 
and appear in April. The seeds ripen in June.—Native of 
the Levant. 
8. Scilla prsecox, or early squill.—Scape angular, ra¬ 
ceme subcorymbed, peduncles twice as long as the flower, 
bractes obscure.—This is distinguishable at first sight from 
the preceding by its habit, smallness, and earliness of 
flowering: but it differs farther in the length of the pedun¬ 
cles, the lower ones being three times as long and more; the 
upper ones twice as long as the flower. 
9. Scilla campanulata, or Spanish squill.—Bulb solid, 
raceme many-flowered, oblong-subconical, corollas bell¬ 
shaped erect, bractes two-parted longer than the peduucle, 
leaves lanceolate.—Corolla of a deep blue violet colour.— 
Native of Spain and Portugal: flowering in May. 
10. Scilla bifolia, or two-leaved squill.—Root solid, 
flowers corymb-racemed without bractes, almost upright, 
leaves lanceolate by twos.—It varies with a white flower: 
and having sometimes three leaves, that is given also as a 
variety.—Native of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, 
Italy and England. 
11. Scilla verna, or vernal squill.—Root solid, corymb 
hemispherical, few-flowered, bractes lanceolate obtuse, leaves 
linear channelled.—Native of Great Britain. 
12. Scilla Lusitanica,or Portugal squill.—Raceme oblong, 
conical, petals marked with lines.—This resembles Scilla 
amoena.—Native of Portugal. 
13. Scilla orientalis, or oriental squill.—Flowers erect, 
racemed, leaves elliptic-ensiform.—Root-leaves many, at¬ 
tenuated below, smooth, a span long. Scape erect, smooth, 
two feet high, with alternate spathaceous scales.—Native of 
Japan, in the island Niphon. 
14. Scilla hyacinthoides, or hyacinth squill.—Raceme 
cylindrical many-flowered, petals half as long again as the 
germ, peduncles coloured, leaves lanceolate.—Flowers nu- 
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