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TULIPA* Oculus sdlis ; va7\ praecox. 

 The Earhj Suns Eye Tulip. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. LiLiACE^ Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 279.) 



TULIPA.—Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 127. 



T. Oculus soils ; integumento bulbi intCis lanato, foliis 4 subciliatis caule 

 floreque g^laberrimis, labris conuiventibus stigmatum villoso-fimbriatis. 

 Ker supra, vol. 3. fol. 20 4. 



Var. prsecox. Strangways, non Tenorii. 



At tab. 204, and subsequently at tab. 1143 of this work, 

 two varieties of this beautiful species have been figured. 

 We are now enabled to add a third by favour of the Hon. 

 T. F. Strangways, who was so obliging as to communicate 

 the specimen, from which our drawing was made, on the 

 18th of March last. 



Mr. Strangways himself collected the roots in the culti- 

 vated grounds belonging to Mr. Baring's villa, near Florence, 

 and he informs us that this is the earliest Tulip that blows 

 with him. Its roots are woolly, and it is grown in this 

 country in the open ground. 



This must not be confounded with the plant of the 

 same name, described by Tenore, which Mr. Strangways 

 considers the Tulipa Raddii. J. L. 



*■ In Persia, the land ol'Tulips, the nanv^ of the genus is thoulyban. 

 Hence its appellation with ns. 



