| | Scilla chinensis, Benth. (Barnardia scilloides, Lindl.). Chinese Squill. Lvs. 2 or 3, equaling or exceeding the scape, rather hard, acute, channeled: bulb small, ovate: scape erect, slender, or wand-like: raceme spicate, dense, elongated: pedicels short; bracts whitish, minute: perianth rose-colored tipped with green; stigma a mere point. June. China. B.M. 3788.—Half-hardy. A beautiful species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored fls., worthy of cult. in any rock-garden. | | Scilla chinensis, Benth. (Barnardia scilloides, Lindl.). Chinese Squill. Lvs. 2 or 3, equaling or exceeding the scape, rather hard, acute, channeled: bulb small, ovate: scape erect, slender, or wand-like: raceme spicate, dense, elongated: pedicels short; bracts whitish, minute: perianth rose-colored tipped with green; stigma a mere point. June. China. B.M. 3788.—Half-hardy. A beautiful species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored fls., worthy of cult. in any rock-garden. |
| | + | Scilla japonica, Baker (Ornithogalum japonicum, Thunb. Barnardia japonica, Schult. f.). Japanese Jacinth. Bulb ovoid, 9-12 lines thick: lvs. 2-3, fleshy, herbaceous, 6-12 in. long, 4-16 lines broad, acute: scapes 1-3, strict, erect: raceme 20-60-fld.: pedicels ascending: bracts minute, linear, white: perianth 1 1/2 lines long, rose-purple: caps. turbinate, trisulcate, 2 1/2-3 lines long; ovules solitary in each ovarian locule. Japan. |