Tas. 5052. 
FRITILLARIA Graca. 
Greek Fri tillary. 
Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Hexanpria MoNnocGynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3280.) 
FRrivtnuarta Greca 3 glabra glauca, caule humili basi nudo dein 5-8-phyllo, 
foliis omnibus alternis, inferioribus approximatis od/ongis vel oblongo-lanceo- 
latis obtusis acutiusculisve, summis remotioribus anguste linearibus acutis, 
floribus mediocribus 1 rarins 2 terminalibus nutantibus ultimo foliosis 
breviori approximatis, perigonii breviter campanulati basi rotundati non 
gibbosi diametro suo eequilongi phyllis extus fascia viridi-lutescente longi- 
tudinali percursis, cxterum rubris obscure tessellatis ellipticis apice ro- 
tundato vel subattenuato obtuso vel subretuso pilosulis, nectario oblongo- 
lipeari, staminibus corolla dimidio brevioribus, filamentis glabris e basi di- 
latata attenuatis anthera breviter apiculata duplo longioribus, stylo glabro 
sogitadinis ovarii stamina paululum superante ad medium usque trifido. 
ois. 
Frivrenarta Greeca. Boiss. ef Sprunner in Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. — : 
n. 7. 1846, p. 104. 
FRrrriiania tulipifolia. Fl. Greca, non M. Bieb. (Boiss. in Herb. Nostr.) 
A native of Mount Hymettus, about the middle of the moun- — 
tain, and hardy in our gardens. Of this pretty Fritillary, like — 
the Rose-flowered Solomon’s-seal of this number, Tab. 5049, we 
have the advantage of possessing authentic living plants, derived — 
from M. Boissier’s garden at Geneva, and from which our 
figures have been taken. They flower readily in the open 
border, and in a frame in the month of March, when flowers 
oe ific character given by 
are always welcome. Long as is ae ee to the authors of the, 
Boissier and Sprunner, it is only j , ey 
Species to vie. their own wiedis for indeed so — pes | 
allied to F. talipifolia of Bieberstein, Centur. Plant. Ross. ta. 
41, that I should have a difficulty im aes : me a ah 
except by the markings of the flowers;—m™ a pag BS 
tessellated, very much like 7. Meleagris; ™ ‘ie stare of ee 
tessellated, and having a green line down the o 
MAY Ist, 1858. 
