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Fritillaria Latifolia. Broad-Leaved 

 Fritillaria. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Fid. N um - 664. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



FRITILLARIA latifolia foliis virentibus, paucis, lanceolato- 

 oblongis, verfus fupernam fcapi. partem fere 

 comofo-approximatis, pedunculum obval- 

 lantibus ; corollae laciniis oblongo-ovalibus, 

 furfum incurvulis, obtufatis. G. 



FRITILLARIA latifolia. Willd. Sp. PI. 2. 92. Lil. a Redoute 

 tab. 51. 



FRITILLARIA lutea maxima. Park. Parad. p. 43. /. 41. 

 /.8. 



FRITILLARIA lutea praeftanftiflima nedum defcripta — 

 Fritillaria flore luteo. Swert. Floril. t. 7. /. 6. 



FRITILLARIA flore pleno. Hort. Eyjl. Vern. Ord. <$. fol. 8. 



MELEAGRIS flos maximus Italicus. Id. eod. f. 1. ? 



This has a much larger bulb than Fritillaria meleagris, 

 and is, we think, very fufliciently diltinguifhed by the above 

 fpecific character ; thofe that wifh to know the minuter 

 differences between the two, will find them largely detailed, 

 in Redoute's IAliaceis y and concifely in Willdenow, by 

 whom the plant was firft raifed to the rank of a fpecies ; in 

 the figure of Redoute which is very characteriftic the colour 

 of the flower is confiderably paler than in ours and the leaves 

 appear flatter, or rather more expanded, circumftances that 



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