THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Fritillaria continued. 

 F. p. lutescens (yellowish) has a yellowish-green stripe on the 



outer segments of the perianth. 

 F. p. nigra (black) is a garden form, with leaves Jin. to fin. 



wide, and three or four dark-coloured flowers. 

 F. pyrenaica (Pyrenese).* fl. deep purple, large. June. h. lift. 



Mountains of Southern France and Northern S 



664.) 



ce and Northern Spain, 1605. (B. M 



Fritillaria continued. 



oblong, obtuse, or obtusely apiculate, rusty brown-purple within, 



not tessellated ; the outer dark glaucous blue, streaked with the 



FIG. 40. FLOWERING STEM OF FRITILLARIA PALLIDIFLORA. 



F. recnrva (recurved).* fl. bright scarlet; perianth segments 

 recurved. May. Stems one to nine-flowered. A. 2ft. California, 

 1870. A very distinct and beautiful species, with flowers nearly as 

 large as those of F. Meleagris. See Fig. 42. (B. M. 6264.) 



F. ruthenica (Russian). fl. brown and yellow. May. I. linear- 

 lanceolate, h. 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 sub-equal, oblanceolate-oblong, sub-acute, with a raised 

 keel outside down the lower half, which is more strongly marked 

 in the outer three, and a yellow-green linear nectary at the top of 

 the claw inside. I. five or six below the inflorescence, all except 

 the lowest opposite or sub-opposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, 

 rather glaucous when young. Stem long, glaucous, terete. 

 h. lift. Turkestan, 1873. A very curious plant. (B. M. 6371.) 

 SYN. Korolkowia Sewerzowi (B. G. 760). 



FIG. 41. FRITILLARIA PUDICA. 



F. tenella (tender).* fl. yellowish, densely chequered with purple- 

 brown ; perianth divisions oblong-elliptic, rounded at apex, the 



nectariferous division at base narrow-obl 



from one another, near 



two or three forming a whorl, rathe 



t base narrow-oblong. April. I. distant 

 ly straight, linear-oblong ; the uppermost 

 whorl, rather distant from the flower ; the 



lowest pair opposite or nearly so, the intermediate ones alternate. 

 Stem stiff,' nearly straight. Maritime Alps, 1867. SYN. F. mm- 

 tana (under which name it is figured in Fl. Ment. 66). There is a 

 variety racemosa (figured in B. M. 952). 



. tuliplfolia (Tulip-leaved).* fl. glaucous blue, solitary, variable 

 in size, nodding, tulip-shaped ; perianth segments sub-equal, 



FIG. 42. FRITILLARIA RECURVA. 



same purple outside ; the inner with a broad glaucous blue band 

 down the back. March. I. elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, sub- 

 acute, concave, sessile, straight; sheath very short, nerveless, 



c 



FIG. 43. FLOWERING STEM OF FRITILLARIA VERTICILLATA 

 THUNBERGII. 



