HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scilla. 429 
purple, small. ( Stalk rarely more than one, about three inches high, 
cylindrical. E.) 
Autumnal Squill. Dry pastures. St. Vincent’s Rocks, near Bristol; 
Lizard Point, Cornwall: Blackheath; near Ditton, on Moulsey-Hurst, 
over against Hampton Court. Common, near Chase-Water mine, Corn¬ 
wall. Mr. Watt (On the downs above the cliffs near Torquay. E.) 
P. Aug.—Sept. 
S. bifo'Lia. Root solid : flowers nearly upright, without floral-leaves: 
root-leaves two, spear-shaped. 
Jacq. Austr. 117— E. Bot. 24— Clus. 184. 3— Bod. 219— Fuchs. 837— Bauli. 
Hist. ii. 579. 2. 3 —Pet. 67. 5. 
{Bulb egg-shaped. Flowering-stalk but little higher than the leaves, up¬ 
right, cylindrical. Bunch inclined to branch. Flowers from four to ten 
on long fruit-stalks. Leaves two, rarely three. Flowers in a somewhat 
corymbose cluster, mostly unilateral. Blossom blue. Petals egg- 
shaped, spreading. E.) 
(Two-leaved Squill. E.) Introduced in the English Botany on the 
authority of Buddie’s Herbarium in the British Museum; but no parti¬ 
cular place of growth is there assigned. (Received from the west of 
England by Mr. Sims of Norwich. FI. Brit. E.) P. March—April. 
S. ver/na. Corymb hemispherical, of few flowers, furnished with 
floral-leaves: blossoms bell-shaped: leaves from the root several, 
strap-shaped, channelled: bulb coated. 
Dicks. H. S. — FI. Dan. 568— E. Bot. 23. 
{Plant four to five inches high. Leaves deep green. E.) Bunch terminal. 
Flowers from three to sis, seldom more, on fruit-stalks. Petals egg- 
shaped, keeled, deep blue. Anthers blue. E.) In its wild state the root- 
leaves are seldom more than two. Floral-leaves longer than the fruit- 
stalks, (membranous. E.) 
Vernal Squill. (Welsh: Serenyn ygwanwyn. E.) Meadows and pas¬ 
tures. Cliffs on the sea shore in Anglesey and Wales ; about St. Ives, 
and other places in Cornwall: received under the name of S. bifolia . 
Hudson. Gloddaeth, Carnarvonshire. Cliffs in the Isle of Man. Mr. 
Hall. Near Redruth, Cornwall. Mrs. Watt. Near Penzance. (On the 
rocks near the village of Babicombe, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. 
Brading, Isle of Wight. Dr. Bostock. Abounding in Iona and Staffa. 
Lightfoot and Hook. Scot. Sea banks at Gun’s Green, near Eyemouth. 
Mag. Nat. Hist. P. May—June. 
(S. nu'tans. Leaves strap-shaped: spike drooping: blossoms pendu¬ 
lous, cylindrically bell-shaped: segments rolled back: floral- 
leaves in pairs. 
E. Bot. 377. E.)— Curt. 139— Clus. i. 177. 1— Dod. 216. 1 —Lob. Obs. 53. 
2— Ger. Em. 111. 1— Ger. 99. 1— J. B. ii. 586— Wale. — Park. Par. 125. 
5— Swert. 13. 1, 2, 3, and 4. 
{Bulb globular, coated, mucilaginous, but acrid. Leaves numerous, channel¬ 
led, flaccid, springing from the root, their lower half nearly upright, then 
reflexed. Flower-stalk nearly a foot high, cylindrical, succulent, brittle. 
Flowers pendulous, fine blue, sweet-scented, each three parts of an inch 
