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Fritillari a Persica (3). Lesser Persian 

 Fritillary. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Char after. — Fid. N um - 664. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



FRITILLARI A per/tea ; racemo nudiufculo, foliis obliquis. 



Hort. Up/. 82. Sp. PL 436. Reich. 2. 47. 



Willd. 2. 90. Mart. Mill. Dicl. a. 2. 

 FRITILLARI A racemo nudo terminali. HorL Cliff. 119. 

 LILIUM Perficum. Battb. Pin. >jg. Rudb. Ely/. 2. p. 183. 



/, 1. Be Bry Floril. 63. Swert. Floril. 44. 



/. 1. Dod. Pempt. 220. Morif. Hijl. 2./. 4. 



/. ig.f.1. Park. Parad. 2g.f. 2. Ger. Em. 



201. Rati Hifi. no6. Bank Hi ft. 2. p. 



699. /. 2. 

 LILIUM fufianum. C/uf. Hi/I, 1. p. 130. Hifp. 130, 131. 

 03} FRITILLARI A racemofa. Mill. Dicl. 

 FRITILLARI A minima. Swert. Floril. j.f. 2. 

 FRITILLARIA ramofa, five Lilium Perficum minus. Morif. 



BleJ. 266. 



Varies in ftature from fix inches to three feet, bearing from 

 twelve to fifty flowers, growing in a pyramidal form. 



Probably of Perfian origin; but, as we are told by 

 Parkinson, was introduced to this country from Turkey, 

 by merchants trading to that country, and « in efpecial by the 

 H procurement of Mr. Nicholas Lete, a lover of all fair 



J flowers/' 



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