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TÚLIPA* Oculus sólis; var. preecox. 
The Early Sun’s Eye Tulip. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Littacem Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 279.) 
TULIPA.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 127. 
T. Oculus solis; integumento bulbi intús lanato, foliis 4 subciliatis caule 
floreque glaberrimis, labris conniventibus stigmatum villoso-fimbriatis. 
Ker supra, vol. 3. fol. 204. 
Var. precox. Strangways, non Tenorii. 
At tab. 204, and subsequently at tab. 1143 of this work, 
two varieties of this beautiful species have been figured. 
We are now enabled to add a third by favour of the Hon. 
T. F. Strangways, who was so obliging as to communicate 
the specimen, from which our drawing was made, on the 
18th of March last. 
Mr. Strangways himself collected the roots in the culti- 
vated grounds belonging to Mr. Baring's villa, near Florence, 
and he informs us that this is the earliest Tulip that blows 
with him. Its roots are woolly, and it is grown in this 
country in the open ground. 
This must not be confounded with the plant of the 
same name, described by Tenore, which Mr. Strangways 
considers the Tulipa Raddii. J. L. 
* In Persia, the land of Tulips, the name of the genus is thoulyban. 
Hence its appellation with us. 
