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Fritillaria Obliqua. Violet-Flowered 



Fritillary. 



Clafs and Order, 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Fid. N um - 664. * 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



FRITILLARIA obliqna foliis glauciffimis, numerofis, con- 

 fertius fparfis, obliquatis ; racemo pauci- 

 floro ; corolla obovato-campanulata, fub- 

 cyathiformi, deorfum fenfim anguftata ; 

 laciniis obovato oblongis, ad fummitatem 

 confle&enter incurvulis. G. 



Except in fize, fewnefs of flowers, and the pedicles having 

 a leaf on or near them, we can fee no difference between this 

 and Fritillaria per/tea; but as we did not fee the flowers be- 

 fore they were tot) far decayed for defcription, poffibly we loft 

 the opportunity of difcovering other diftinclions. Of what 

 country a native we are uncertain ; in the Bankfian Herbarium 

 we faw a four-flowered fpecimen ftated to have been fent by 

 Jacquin, but without any notice of the habitat; it is there con- 

 founded with the many- flowered variety of Fritillaria pj* 

 renaica, from which, however, it is fufficiently diftinft. Our 

 drawing was taken from Mr. Williams's Nurfery, at Turnham- 

 Green, a collection in which there are many rare liliaceous 

 plants ; he received it from Holland. Seems to be of the fame 

 degree of hardinefs as F. perfica ; flowers in our gardens the 

 firfl of the genus. When we have an opportunity of givmg 

 the Perfian fpecies, we mall offer fome further obfervations on 

 the diftin&ions between the two fpecies. G. 



