FRITILLAKIA 



THE BULB BOOK 



FEITILLAKIA 



Fio. 156. Fritillaria pudica. 



ins. high, native of Turkestan. It 

 has round stems and oblong glaucous 

 leaves. The drooping flowers are 

 borne in March and April, and are of 

 a lurid or plum-purple outside, with 

 a glaucous hue, and greenish-yellow 

 within, veined with deeper veins. The 

 variety bicolor has pale olive-green 

 flowers having a brownish crescent- 



FIQ. I!fi.FrUilla.Tia pyrenaica. 



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Fio. 158. Fritillaria recurva. 



shaped blotch at the base of each 

 segment (Sot. Mag. t. 6371 ; Gartenft. 

 t. 760). The variety discolor is a fine 

 one, figured in Flora and Sylva, 

 November 1905. 



F. tenella (F. montand). A native 

 of the Maritime Alps, having narrow 

 oblong leaves and yellowish flowers 

 distinctly chequered with purple (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 952). F. Orsiniana, figured 

 in the Wiener Illustrirte Garten 

 Zeitung, 1901, 127, 1. 1, is very closely 

 allied to this, if not actually identical. 



