Pirate LXVI. 
FRITILLARIA montana, Hoppe. 
Natural Order LintacEes. 
Gen. Cuarn.—See description of Plate XXV. Part. I. 
Spec. Cuar. — Flower small, yellowish, densely chequered with 
purple-brown. Divisions of perianth oblong-elliptic, rounded at apex, 
the nectariferous depression at base, narrow-oblong. Leaves 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 leaves alternate. Stem stiff, and 
nearly straight. 
Fritillaria montana, Hoppe, Bot. Zeit. xv. pars 2, p. 476; Woods, 
Tour. Fl. p. 364. ritillaria caussolensis, Goaty et Pons in Ardoino, 
Fl. Alp. Mar. p. 875. (Oxs. The specimens from which this descrip- 
tion and drawing were made were not absolutely fresh, having been in 
press for some hours before I received them. For these I am indebted 
to the kindness of M. Thuret.) 
Hasirat.—Caussols, near Grasse (Alpes Maritimes), collected by 
M. Huet on April 22, 1867. 
Remarxs.—tThis plant is nearly allied to Fritillaria involucrata, All., 
and is principally distinguished by its smaller and darker flowers, and 
stiffer, more scattered leaves. The European members of this genus are 
not separated from one another by well-marked characters, the differ- 
ences between them being chiefly those of aspect and habit, such, in 
fact, as gardeners and not botanists are wont to make use of. How- 
ever, no one who had before him fifty or sixty living specimens of F. 
involucrata, All., mixed with an equal number of specimens of F. mon- 
tana, Hoppe, would have any difficulty in separating the one from the 
other. The recent re-discovery of F. montana, Hoppe, near Grasse, is 
one of great interest, as the plant has hitherto been only cited as found 
in Istria. I say re-discovery, for there are specimens in the Herba- 
rium of the late M. Gay, at Kew, labelled, “ F. meleagris, Caussols 
(Var.), Hassenot misit; Perreymond, April, 1838.” M. Gay has added 
below, “ F. montana, Hoppe P”’ 
EXPLANATION oF Prats LX VI.—Fig. 1, an inner and outer division 
of the perianth, viewed from within, showing the nectariferous hollow; 
of the natural size. 
