Note 2582 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 21)
Reading edition
Journ. of Linn. Soc., Bot., xiii. (1872) 221.—The genus Urginea has flat, discoid seeds, while in Scilla proper they are triquetrous. The name Urginea was given in allusion to the Algerian tribe Ben Urgin, near Bona, where Steinheil (1834) examined this plant.