TULIPA. 



straight upwards at tho sun. It has a lovely little dwarf alpine form 

 of 3 or 4 inches called T. m. Julia. 



T. chrysantha offers us a golden-yellow T. montanahom Afghanistan, 

 with the added advantage that its bulbs are savoursome and nourish- 

 ing as a chestnut. 



T. sogdiana has similar flowers, but of half the size, and the leaves 

 have no wave at the edge. 



T. Clusiana is the special treasure of the Riviera, where it is now 

 becoming sadly rare, but was not so long ago to be seen still abundant 

 in an old Olive-orchard forgotten in the heart of Cannes. It is a 

 ready grower, but hates being in a pot, as it has a curious habit of 

 pushing the new bulb far down below the old one. In cultivation it 

 is ready and easy : a plant of inimitable grace, with its fine slender 

 growth and fLie narrow pointed foliage, ending in the very long 

 pointed bud, all a flush of broad musty-pink bands down the pale 

 reverse of the segments, that ultimately in May and June (with us) 

 open into a wide star of six long points, softly and coldly pearl-white, 

 with an eye of bluish darkness at the heart. 



T. Eichleri is also T. Julia (Haag. and Schm.). It lives in Trans- 

 caucasia and has all the qualities and habits of T. praecox, but the 

 foot -stalks of the flowers are finely downy instead of being perfectly 

 smooth. 



T. suaveolens, Roth., has nothing to do with T. sylvestris. of which 

 it is made a synon3 T m in catalogues, although it even stands in a dif- 

 ferent section of the race. It is figured in the Bot. Mag., T. 839, and 

 is a dwarf Tulip of South Russia, with downy leaves as long or longer 

 than the flower-stem, and rather flattened. The blossom is big, with 

 very wide-awake spreading bells of gold or scarlet ; or sometimes 

 scarlet with a margin of gold. 



T. baeotica lives by Parnes, and in the seaward fields of Baeotia. 

 It is about a foot high and bending in the stem, and downy, with nobly 

 large wide flowers of intense purple, with the three inner segments 

 running to a sharp tip like a tail. And each has a yellow-bordered 

 oblong blotch of blackness at its base. It has a dwarfer variety with 

 even larger blooms, called T. b. eriantha, from the mid-alpine regions 

 of Malevo in Laconia. 



T. undulati folia (Bot. Mag., T. 6308) has a stem of 6 or 9 inches, and 

 is quite like T. montana, but that the stem is finely downy, and the 

 segments of the flower specially long-pointed, suddenly drawing to a 

 tail-tip at the end. The star-cups are pure scarlet and held sturdily 

 erect. From the fat fields at the foot of Tartalos in Ionia by Smyrna. 



T. Oreigi, with its ample grey leaves marked with broken blurred 



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