For the foregoing note I am indebted to the Hon. W. F. 

 Strangways. No synonyms beyond those of Linnaeus are 

 quoted, because they are both uncertain and uninstructive. 

 The plant figured under this name in the present work, folio 

 380, from bulbs sent from Constantinople, is T, oculus Soils; 

 and I douTbt whether the Cappadocian plant referred to by 

 Gesner as the origin of our garden Tulips, was any thing 

 else, if it really came from Cappadocia. It seems impos- 

 sible to say what the kinds were which Clusius had from 

 Cajffa and Caroba, but they were probably also T. oculus 

 Solis in part at least. The form of the flower of the species 

 now represented, its smoothness and its robustness, appear 

 sufficient evidence of its identity with the self tulips from 

 which the gay varieties of the Tulip fancier are bred. 





