red colour. Corolla deep yellow, outer fegments externally 

 fuffufed with green. Native of the fouthern parts of Europe ; 

 and, as it is faid, of Great-Britain. Haller doubts its being 

 fpontaneous in Switzerland, although very common there. 

 Blooms in April ; flightly fragrant. 



At the time we were treating of the Garden Tulip (T.gef- 

 neriana. No. 1 1 35«)> we nac ^ never ^ een or even heard of the 

 exiftence of a fpontaneous individual of that fpecies in tbe pof- 

 feffion of any one; nor had we fatisfaQorily afcertaincd 8tty 

 one fpontaneous fource of that plant. Since then we have been 

 gratified by the infpection of the Herbarium of the Chevalier 

 Pallas, a portion of the fruits of extenfive travels and years 

 of unwearied induftry in the various purfuits of natural hiftory, 

 now, fortunately for the Englifh Botanift, the property of 

 Mr. A. B. Lambert. It was here, we for the fir ft time 

 faw the wild brethren of this popular denizen of the 

 gardens ; they were taken from their native defert on tbe 

 border of the Cafpian-Sea; a fpot which precludes all doubt 

 as to aboriginal exiftence. 1 he fpecimens have been pre- 

 pared with extraordinary {kill, and are in perfect preserva- 

 tion. They differ in no other point than fize and fharpnefs of 

 the petals of the corolla from the garden plant ; are equally 

 inconftant as to colour ; three- leaved and fcarcely ihrec- 

 quarters of a foot high. Here we alfo found in abundance 

 Tulip a ccJfiana. No. 1135, page 2. (previoufly given as 

 the breyniana in No. 71 7); a native of the Banks of ihc 

 Wolga: likewife the "Cloth of Gold Crocus" (Jufu 

 No. 652) : with the " Scotch Crocus" (biforus. No- 845) ■ w 

 well as Crocus ferotinus of the " Paradifus Londinenfis, 

 /. 30 \" which laft three are natives of the Crimea. T. reffiaM 

 differs from biflora, in never having lefs than three leaves and 

 feldom more than one flower, as well as in colour of the corolla, 

 and form of the ftigmas and capfulc ; both differ from fjlveflrih 

 in producing their offsets perpendicularly from the bulb, 

 fometimes forming a chain of leveral link's, and not merely 

 from the fide as that does ; there arc befides other points of 

 diftinaion. G. 



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STNONTMA IN LOCO 1NSERENDA. 



TULIPA celfiana. No. 1135. T.fyhejris v. campefifis. Herh. 



Pall. 

 CROCUS bifiorus. No. 845. C vermis. Herb. Pali 



1 fujlanus. No. 652. C. flaws. Herb. Palh 



Serotinus. Par. Lotid. t. 30. C autumnalis campep**- 



Herb. Palh 



