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Fritillaria Racemosa (a). Oriental 

 Fritillary. 



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C/tf/r «»</ Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character.— Vid. N m - 664. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



FRITILLARIA racemofa; (1 — g-Jlora ;) foliis angufte Ian- 

 ceolato-ligulatis, convoluto-explicatis, glau- 

 tiufculis, fubtus nervofe itriatis, fparfis, in 

 fummo caule confertioribus ; corolla ellip- 

 tico-campanulata ; laciniis fubsequalibus,intus 

 fcrobiculo rotundato-oblongo infculptisj ex- 

 timis ellipticis parum anguftioribus cum 

 brevi acumine ; intimis obovato-oblongis, 

 apice rotundatis ; ftaminibus quam hae 

 duplo brevioribus ; germine filamentis ifo- 

 metro ; ftigmatibus viridibus, ftylo aequa- 

 libus, tereti-linearibus, recurvato-divergen- 

 tibus, introrfum rimula longitudinali incifis, 

 apice minutiffime puberulis. G. 



FRITILLARIA racemofa. Vid.fupra No. 952; ubi allegatis 

 fynonymis adde infequentia. 



F. orientalis. Herb. Marfch. v. Bieberftein in Muf Bank/. 



F- Meleagris. Pallas Herb, penes D un - A. B. Lambert. Id. in it. 

 pajfim. Georgi Befcbr. Ruff. R. 3. 4. 900. 



*• viperino flore. Trew. Flor. lmag. t. 7. 



(«) minor ,- 1 — 2-flora. Spec. Spont. in Herb. Bieberft, et Pallas, 

 t c . 



P) major ; flores 4 — 9, modo in racemum produ&i, modo 

 f ubverticillatim approximate Supra tab. 952. Spec.hortenf. 

 in Herb. Pallas I. c. 



Descr. Bulb laterally double; leaves 5—10 or more, 

 lo *er ones longer, about four inches in length and the third of 

 an inch broad ; differs from Meleagris in having a different 

 c °loured and generally fmaller corolla, with the fegments lefs 

 Ruminate, a germen equal to, and not half the length of 



