HEXANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. Tulipa. 329 



from the side of the root, 1 4 2 to 18 inches high, cylindrical, 

 smooth, bending at the top into an elegant arch. Leaves 3 to 

 5, shprt, grasslike, half embracing the stem, alternate, distinct* 

 Flower drooping. Petals oval, the outer bulging at the base, 

 the 3 inner flat, of a dull red, chequered with a deeper colour, 

 without any mixture of green or yellow. Woodw. Nectary a 

 fleshy glandular substance connecting the stamens to the petals. 



Fritillary. Chequered Daffodil, or Tulip. Snakes-head* 



Guinea-heti-fivwer. Meadows and pastures. Mawde Fields, 

 near Ri slip Common, Middlesex ; near Bury, Enfield ; and in the . 

 meadows between Mortlake and *Cew. [Between Laxfield and 

 Stirrup-street, Suff. Mr. Woodward. — In a meadow near Blym- 

 hifl, Staffordshire, plentifully. Mr. Dickenson. — Near Leices- 

 ter. Dr. Arnold. J P. April, May. 



Var. , White flowered. , ~ 



In great abundance in a meadow on the right hand side of • 



the road leading from Wolesely bridge to Stafford, not |ofa 

 mile from the bridge. 7th May, IJ 87. 



♦ 



TULIPA. Bloss. 6 petals: bell-shaped: style 



none : caps, superior, 3-celled. 



T\ Flower rather drooping : leaves spear-shaped : stamens silves'tris. 



hairy above the base. 



£. hot. 63-Lob. hist. 63. n -ib. ic. 124. 2-C/us. hist. 151.2- 

 Ger. em. 138. WPark. 1342. 2-J7. dan. 37 o. 



Bloss. yellow, sweet scented. Petals spear-shaped, acute ; outer , 

 enes greenish, with 1 or 2 transverse wrinkles at the base : inner 

 ones dull yellow, with a green keel, and the edges hairy towards 

 the bottom. Filaments very slender at the base, thicker just 

 above, and surrounded with a fringe of white hairs, under which 

 is found honey. Anthers and Pollen yellow* Summit blunt, 

 neither compressed nor dilated. Linic. 



In old Chalkpits in Suffolk and Norfolk; see E. bot. 6% 

 where it is first adopted as a naturalized plant. P. April* 



V 



ORNITHCGALUM. Bloss. 6 petals, upright, 



permanent, above the middle expanding: 

 Ji laments, the alternate ones dilated at the 

 base : caps, superior ; 3-celled. 



Q. Stalk angular, 2-leaved : fruit-stalks in an unbranched lu'teum. 



umbel . 



E. bot. <2,\-Walc.-Kmpb. 1-Cfus. i. 188. 2-ZW. 222-Ia*. 



obs. 72. 3-Ger. em. l65, 2-iV. 66". 12-27. dan, 378- 



