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TULTPA gesneriana. 

 Common Tulip. 



HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIAt (mbis.) 



Nat. ord. Lilia. Jussieu gen. 48. 

 TULIP A. SuprA vol. 3. fol. 204. 



T. gesneriana, caule unifloro, floribus erectis, petalis obtusiusculis Btammi- 



busque glabris, foliis lanceolatis. Marsch. Bieb.Jl. tnur. cauc. 1. 271. 

 Tulipa gesneriana. Lin. sp. pi. ed. 2. 1. 438. Hort. Kew. 1. 435. ed. 2. 2. 



249. Brot.Jl. lusit; (in hortis). Desfont. ail. 1. 293; (in hortit). 



Soxuerby fi. lux. 5, 6, 11, 17. Nobis in Curtis s magaz. 11 35. 

 Tulipa hortensis. Gartn. sent. 1. 64. 1. 17. Jig. 2. 



Tulipa. Clus. hist. 137-148; passim. Park. par. 4 5-65; passim. Stent. 

 Jloril. 8, 9, 10; passim. Hort. eyst. ord. 4. vern. passim. Tourn. inst. 



passim. Beckman beytr. zur gesch. der erfind. 1. 223. 2. 548. 

 Tulipa turcarum. Gesn. in cordi hist. 213. 



Proles lateralis. Folia trim ovato-lanceolala, subconvoluta. Caulis gla- 

 ber. Corolla erecta, laio-campanulata, laciniis obtusis. Filamenta cequalia, 

 glabra; germine prismatico-columnari duplo breviora, antheras adaquantia. 

 Capitellutn stigmatosum continuum, trifaria'm trilobum; stigmata cristato- 

 ad?iata, revoluta, canaliculata. Nobis in Curt. mag. fol, 1135. 



The first Flora, in which the Common Tulip has been 

 included as one of the indigenous plants, is that of Cau- 

 casian Tartary by Mr. Marschall of Bieberstein; and the 

 first Herbarium in this country, known to contain a native 

 specimen, is that formed by the Chevalier Pallas, and now 

 in the possession of Mr. Lambert. The species grows natu- 

 rally on the borders of the Caspian Sea, and on the sides 

 of the hills and in the plains of the country about Mount 



Caucasus. 



The drawing of the present splendid variety was taken 

 from a plant sent by Mrs. Liston, the Lady of the British 

 Ambassador at the Porte, to Messrs. Whitley, Braraes, and 

 Milne, of the Fulham nursery. 



It appears that this popular species was first brought 

 from Constantinople to Vienna, about the middle of the 

 sixteenth century; and that it has since gradually found 

 its way over the rest of Europe. From the varieties bred 

 from this species by the florists in Holland, arose the well- 

 known Tulipi mania that towards the middle of the seven- 



