Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 918

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-COMMON_NAMES- Common Red-rooted Sea-onion,
Officinal Squill, Sea Onion
-GENUS- Ornithogalum
-SPECIES- Ornithogalum squilla (alpha)
-CLASS- Hexandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler

-MODERN_GENUS- Urginea
-MODERN_SPECIES- Urginea maritima
-MODERN_FAMILY- Liliaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- white, with purple or green
-SEASON- summer
-NATIVE_REGION- Mediterranean
-ZONE- __

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 23
-PUB_DATE- 1806
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0428 IMG0039.PCD
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