140 HEXANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Tulipa. 



F. variegata. Ger. Em. 149./. 



Meleagris. Dod. Pempt. 233./. Renealm. Spec. 147. t. \46.Jig. 

 with the root and capsule. 



In moist meadows and pastures, chiefly towards the southern parts 

 of England. 



In Maud fields near Rislip Common, Middlesex ; Mr. Ashby. 

 Blackstone. Between Mortlake and Kevv, and near Enfield. 

 Hudson. Near Laxfield, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. At Little 

 Stonham, in the same county, a troublesome weed. Mrs. Cob- 

 hold. Near Reading. Mr. Murray. 



Perennial. April. 



Bulbs small, depressed, roundish, aggregate, lobed. Stem a foot 

 high, round, leafy chiefly in the upper part, quite simple, droop- 

 ing at the top. Leaves alternate, rather distant, erect, chan- 

 nelled, pointed, somewhat glaucous. Flotcer terminal, pendu- 

 lous, the size of a large walnut, inodorous, regularly chequered 

 with pale and dark purple ; sometimes white, but still chequered. 

 The points of the petals are more or less turned inwards, distin- 

 guishing this species from some exotic ones that have been con- 

 founded with it. The capsule is obovate, abrupt, with 6 furrows, 

 and quite erect. 



J 89. TULIPA. Tulip. 



Linn. Gen. \ 65. Juss. 48. Fl. Br. 3G\. Tourn. t. \90, 200. Lam. 

 t.244. Gcertn. t. 17. 



Nat. Ord. see w. 188. 



Cal. none. Cor. inferior, bell-shaped, of 6 ovate-oblong, 

 concave, erect petals. Nectaries none. Filam. 6, stout, 

 oblong, compressed, upright, taper-pointed, shorter than 

 ihe pistil. Anth. oblong, quadrangular, terminal, erect, 

 versatile. Germ, superior, large, oblong, with 3 more or 

 less blunt angles. Style none. Stigma either triangular 

 or three-lobed, permanent. Caps, triangular, with 3 in- 

 termediate furrows, 3 cells and 3 valves, which are fringed 

 at the edges, and have central partitions. Seeds very nu- 

 merous, flat, obovate, crowded one above another, in 2 

 rows, many of them usually abortive. 



Bulb coated, ovate. Stem simple, leafy at the bottom only. 

 Leaves lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, entire, tapering at 

 each end, smooth or downy. Fl. terminal, yellow or red- 

 dish, mostly erect. 



1 . T. sylvestris. Wild Tulip. 



Flower solitary, a little drooping. Leaves lanceolate. Stigma 

 triangular, abrupt. Stamens hairy at the base. 



