428 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scilla. 
Woodw. Petals white,, with a broad green streak along the under side. 
Filaments spear-shaped, flat, fleshy ; every other broader. Germen with 
six blunt angles. ( Leaves from the root, strap-shaped, grooved, shri¬ 
velled at the end. Stalk about a foot high, cylindrical, glaucous, bearing 
a bunch of six to nine larger flowers, drooping to one side. E.) 
Common Bethlehem Star. (Welsh: Seven Fethlehem gyffredin. E.) 
Woods, meadows, and pastures, in Norfolk. Plentiful in'a field near 
Knaresborough. Mr. Robson. (On Everton Heath, Bedfordshire. Abbot. 
At Little Stonham, Suffolk. Mrs. Cobbold. Bitton meadows, Glocester- 
shire, opposite the church. Rev. H. J. Ellicombe. In a wood near 
Maes y porth, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Plentiful on the point of land 
adjoining Teddington lock, near London. Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 83. Near 
a pond in Godfreys Lammas, Warwick. Perry. E.) P. April—May.* 
O. (nu'tans. Flowers pendulous towards one side: filaments dilated, 
cohering, bell-shaped, alternate ones longer, and cloven. 
Hook. FI. Lond. — E. Bot. 1997— Jacq. Austr. 301— FI. Dan. 912— Curt. 
Mag. 269. 
Bulb egg-shaped. Leaves all radical, pale, and somewdiat glaucous, strap¬ 
shaped, channelled, sharp-pointed, twelve to eighteen inches long. Stalk 
solitary, rather taller than the leaves, cylindrical, upright. Cluster 
simple, composed of seven or eight large, greenish, and silvery white 
flowers. The permanent petals close over the germen, which becomes a 
roundish membranous capsule. Bracteas shorter than the flowers. Seeds 
rugged, black. E. Bot. This elegant plant having been described and 
figured in the Floras of many countries, in nearly similar latitudes with 
our own, we agree with Sir J. E. Smith, that it ought not to be excluded 
from the catalogue of British natives; especially when we consider for 
how long a time, and in how great profusion, it has been observed in the 
county of Suffolk. 
Drooping Bethlehem Star. Plentiful in the high fields near Bury. 
Rev. G. Leathes. In Eaton-ford field, Bedfordshire. Sir T. G. Cullum. 
Middleton, Suffolk. D. E. Davy, Esq.; and near Framlingham in the 
same county; where the Rev. Mr. Crabbe says it is frequent in orchards 
and church-yards. Bot. Guide. E.) P. May.f 
SCIL'LA.J ( Bloss . six petals, more or less expanding, shri¬ 
velling or deciduous : Filaments thread-shaped. E.) 
S. autumna'lis. Leaves strap-shaped, narrow: flowers in a spike¬ 
like corymbus: fruit-stalks naked, ascending, about as long as 
the flower. 
Curt. —j E. Bot. 78 —Clus. i. 185. 2— Dod. 219. 1— Lob. Ohs. 53. 3— Ger. 
Em. 110. 1— Ger. 98. 4. 
Root bulbous, coated. Leaves numerous, much shorter than the stalks, 
Woodw., (not appearing till after the time of flowering. Hoffmansegg 
and Link. E.) Flowers rather form a bunch than a corymbus; bluish- 
* The roots may be roasted like chesnuts, or boiled in water, and are much eaten in 
the Levant. Poiret. 
+ (A pretty tribe of plants, several of which are worthy of garden culture, and 
flourish in a light sandy soil. E.) 
$ (From <7 mWw, to excite or disturb, as an emetic does the stomach. E.) 
