28 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Pritillaria—continued. 
F. p. lutescens (yellowish) has a yellowish-green stripe on the 
outer segments of the perianth. į 
F. p. nigra (black) is a garden form, with leaves jin. to fin. 
‘is, and Enos of fone dark-coloured flowers. 
F. renese).* jl, deep purple, large. June. h. 1ift. 
ountains of —— oat an Northern Spain, 1605. (B, M. 
664.) 
Fic. 40. FLOWERING STEM OF FRITILLARIA PALLIDIFLORA. 
F, recurva (recurved).* A. bright scarlet; perianth segments 
recurved. May. Stems one to nine-flowered. h. 2ft. California, 
1870, A very distinct and beautiful species, with flowers nearly as 
large as those of F. Meleagris, See Fig. 42. . M. 6264.) 
F, ruthenica (Russian). fl. brown and yellow. May. 1. linear- 
lanceolate. A. 1ft. Caucasus, 1826. (S. B, F. G. ser. ii, 243.) 
F. Sewerzowi (Sewerzow’s). fl. drooping, forming a loose 
raceme; perianth lurid purple, with a glaucous tint outside, 
greenish-yellow within, not at all tessellated, funnel-shaped ; seg- 
ments su oblanceolate-oblong, sub-acute, with a raised 
keel outside down the lower half, which is more strongly marked 
in the outer three, and a Lape ii rn linear nectary at the top of 
the claw inside, l. five or six below the inflorescence, all except 
the lowest opposite or sub-opposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, 
rather glaucous when young. Stem long, gyre ta terete. 
h. 14ft. Turkestan, 1873. A very curious plant. (B. M. 6371.) 
Syn. Korolkowia Sewerzowi (R. G. 760), 
FIG. 41. FRITILLARIA PUDICA. 
. tenella (tender).* 1. yellowish, densely chequered with purple- 
brown ; perianth divisions oblong-elliptic, rounded at apex, the 
néctariferous division at base narrow-oblong, April. l. distant 
from one another, nearly straight, linear-oblong ; the uppermost 
two or three forming a whorl, rather distant from the flower ; the 
lowest pair opposite or nearly so, the intermediate ones alternate. 
Stem copter straight. Maritime Alps, 1867. SYN. F. mon- 
tana (under which name it is figured in Fl. Ment. 66), There isa 
variety racemosa (figured in B. M, 952). - ~ 
F. tulipifolia (Tulip-leaved).* A. glaucous blue, solitary, variable 
in size, nodding, tulip-shaped; perianth segments sub-equal, 
Fritillaria—continued. 
, obtuse, or obtusely apiculate, rusty brown-purple within, 
—— ; the outer dark glaucous blue, streaked with the 
Fic. 42. FRITILLARIA RECURVA. 
same purple outside; the inner with a broad glaucous blue band 
down the back. March.. 1, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, concave, sessile, straight; sheath very short, nerveless, 
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FIG. 43, FLOWERING STEM OF FRITILLARIA VERTICILLATA 
THUNBERGII, 
