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* TÜLIPA scabriscápa. 
Rough-stemmed Tulip. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LiLiacez. lp i 
TULIPA. Supra, vol. 2. fol. 127. 
T. scabriscapa ; bulbo solido. prolifero tunicà castaneà levi obtecto; scapo pu- 
bescente scabro, foliis glaucescentibus flaccidis subundulatis, sepalis acumi- 
natis, germine prismatico-triangulari stigmate plus (minusve angustiore. 
Strangways in litt. j 
Like many other garden flowers, the Tulip has in its 
cultivated state assumed appearances so unlike what are 
proper to it when wild, that it is only after long and patient 
investigation that the garden varieties can be referred to 
their original species, Mr. Strangways' residence at Flo- 
rence, and the enquiries he was able to institute into this 
subject, have enabled him to investigate the genus success- 
fully, and I am extremely indebted to him for the following 
interesting memoranda, drawn up with reference to the four 
Tulips represented in the annexed plate, from specimens 
supplied out of the garden at Abbotsbury. 
^ This name (7. seabriscapa) would unite four different varieties of tulip, 
found wild near Florence, which do not appear to differ specifically one from the 
other, while they agree in several characters, the most remarkable as well as the 
most constant of which (in the wild plants) is the roughness of the stalk. 
They were first noticed, though under a different arrangement, by M. Reboul, a 
French gentleman residing at Florence, to whom, however, only two varieties 
seem to have been known, viz. Nos. 3 & 2. 
No. 4. T. seabrise, var. primulina, is that which may be taken as the 
of the species, both as being most distinct in colour and character from all the 
other wild Tulips with which Tuscany abounds; and as being the least variable 
of the four varieties here represented, Indeed the only frequent variation observ- 
able in it, is that the bases of all the petals, interiorly, are sometimes marked 
with a dusky spot, which at other times is hyaline or smooth and semitransparent ; 
the same variation of colour extends also to the filaments and anthers, and, 
rarely, to the petals. T. sc. primulina was first noticed by Viscountess Hawarden 
In some vineyards on the slope of the hill under the Cl u h of S. Miniato, i 
short distance from Florence ; it has since been found abundantly higher up t 
T ki It has been introduced into some En gardens under the name 
o Hawarden's Tulip. p m : d 
No. 3. T. scabrisc. te v v , This, in red, is nearly as — 
as primulina in yellow ; nevertheless it | as om: a ds bM. Reboul, 
which serve to unite it with No. l. It 
fi i hich the tips of the petals cross 
rom the character of the unexpanded flow a jen dre P He found it first at 
each other, as if a ligature had been appl : 
Sa, Margherita, de thres.miles from Figrence, on the south, and zn. 
the same valley with No. 4. Its colour is a remarkably brilliant crimson, 
petal having a black spot, forming an eye round the germen, not unlike that of. 
* See folio 1419. 
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