Turipa Gesnertana. Garpen Tux, ~ 
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| Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpara Monooynta. 
Generie Charafer.—Vid. No.71Je 5 
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3 Specific Character and Synonyms. 
TULIPA gefneriana (uniflora; bullus prolem latevaliter evol- 
vens ;) foliis trinis ovato-lanceolatis, fubconvolutis ; 
fcdpo glabro: corolla ereéta, lato-campanulata, 
_ Jaciniis obtufatis ; filamentis equalibus, glabris, ger- 
mine prifmatico-columnari duplo brevioribus, an- 
theras adequantibus; capitello ftigmatofo continuo, 
trifariam trilobo, lobis criftatim adnatis, revolutim 
.  decurrentibus, canaliculatis. G.- : 
TULIPA gefneriana. Linn. Sp. Pl ed. 2.1. 438. Hort. Kew 
| 1.435. Brot. Fl. Lufit. 1. 520. (in hortis) Desf. Fl. 
Atl. 1. 293 (in hortis.) Sowerby Fl, Lux. Tad. 5, 6, 
“a1, 17. Willd. Sp. Pd. 1. 97- 3 
TULIPA. Cluf. Hift.137—148; pallim. Park. Par. 45—65; 
paflim. Swert. Floril. 8, 9, 10; paflim. Hort. Ey/t. Ord. 
4. Vern. paffim. Tourn, Inf. 373; pallim. Beckmap 
beytr. zur gefch. der Erfind. 1. 223. 2. 548. 
TULIPA turcarum. Ge/w. in Cord Hift. 213. 
re reeiitneriwen: 
_ This well-known and popular ornament of our gardens, is a 
‘ative of certain diftri€s of the Turkifh dominions, and ap- 
Pears to have been firft brought from Conftantinople to Vienna, 
about the middle of the fixteenth century ; from thence it has 
| found its way over the reft of Europe. An account of the 
famous Tulipomania, which, about the middle of the feventeenth 
Century, feized nearly the whole of the Low-Countries, may 
feen in the above-quoted work of Beckman; where we find 
that this plant gave rife to a fyfiem of ftock-jobbing and {pe- 
Culation, nearly equal in extent, and fimilar in confequences, 
to that produced by the well-known South-Sea delufion in our 
©wn country. With this infatuation, however, we muft not 
Confound the value fet upon the plant by the Florift, by whom 
» thas been cultivated for his amufement, and on account of its 
beauty ; this feems to have maintained the ufual level; and 
never 
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