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Squier (GEORGE OWEN award)
GEORGE OWEN award of the Elliott Cresson gold medal, and of the Franklin medal. bulbous plants with radical linear numbering about 72 known species of ple or white), in racemes on leafless scapes; perianth segments six, free or nearly so; capsule three-angled, loculileaves; usually blue flowers (rarely purple or white), in racemes on leafless scapes; perianth segments six, free or The genus is confined to the Old World.
Three are British. S. autumnalis, in which the leaves are autumnal, succeed- The genus is confined to the Old World.
Three are British. S. autumnalis, in ing the flowers, is confined to a few counties in Southern England; while S. spring ing the flowers, is confined to a few counties in Southern England; En while S. verna, with leaves appearing in spr in anticipation of the light-blue fragrant flowers, is met with in localities near the coast between Cornwall and Shetland. The third is the familiar wild hyacinth coast between Cornwall and Shetland.
The third is the familiar wild hyacinth often called "bluebell" in England, the "English Iacint" of old writers, the Hyacinthus nonscriptus non of Linnæus, now named S. nutans. It is common from Ross S., often occurring in such profusion as to render large tracts of woodland a sheet of blue from April to June.
The medicinal squill belongs to an allied genus of the tribe Scilleæ, named Urginea, comprising 24 species spread through the whole of Africa, and reaching Hindustan and Southern Europe. It is the species known as U. scilla or ing Hindustan and Southern Europe. It is the species known as U. scilla or maritima (formerly S. maritima), a native of the coast district from Syria to the Canaries, appearing also in the Cape flora. From a bulb of four to six inches in diameter leaves are produced in spring, followed in autumn by a raceme of whitish flowers borne round scape of one to three feet high. raceme of whitish flowers borne by a round scape of one to three feet high. in certain forms of dropsy, and as an expectorant. (2) An in certain forms of dropsy, and as an knight's shield or armor-bearer. (2 attendant on a person of noble or royal rank; hence, colloquially, an attendant attendant on a person of noble or royal companion, a close attendant or follower. (3) The title of a gentleman next in rank to a knight. (4) A title popularly given to a country gentleman. (5) A title given to magistrates and lawyers in some parts of the United States. In New England it is given especially to justices of the peace and judges; in Pennsylvania to justices of the peace only.
New England it is given especially to American educator, born at Cortland, SQUIRREL University of State Normal School, Cortland, N. Y., Brown University, and the Univ N. Y., in 1866. He was educated at the at preparatory schools, he became professor of English at the University of Chicago. After some years of teaching North Dakota in 1897, serving until 1901, and returning in the same capacity to this institution in 1902. In 1914 he was made dean of the College of Liberal Arts of the University of North Dakota.
He was a member of several educational societies and lectured frequently at Caucasus, Southern Siberia, and prob- ably in Persia. It is a little animal