458 FlorlcuUural and Botanical Notices. 



which INIr. Herbert lias pronounced to be the same," {Bat. 

 Mag., Aug.) 

 'LilidcciC. 



1017. TITLIPA ^ ['eg. 1990. 



*scabriscapa Strangways rough-stemmed tf A or 2 ap.my R.Y Italy 1837 O r.m Bot. 



The tulip, in its cultivated state, assumes appearances so un- 

 like what are proper to it when wild, that it is only after long 

 and patient investigation that garden varieties can be referred 

 to their original species. ]\Ir Stvangways's residence at Florence, 

 and the enquiries he was able to institute on this subject, have 

 enabled him to investigate the genus successfully ; and he has 

 characterised four varieites of T. scabriscapa ; yiz. T. s. primu- 

 lina (Lady Hawarden's tulip), T. s. strangulata, T. s. mixta, 

 and T, s. Buonarrottian^, which might be taken as the wild or 

 original of the Van Toll, or Dutch sweet-scented tulip. 



" These four tulips agree in the form of the flowers, which are 

 elegantly cup-shaped ; petals pointed, though less so than in T. 

 O'culus solis; germen prismatic; stigma overhanging, not so large 

 as in Gesnei7«//« ; bulb smooth ; scape rough, pubescent, or even 

 hairy in strong plants, in which they differ from all other tulips. 

 The petals of all have two strong furrows down the middle. 

 Their leaves are glaucous, more or less undulated. They may 

 possibly be the original stock of a tribe of second-rate garden 

 tulips, neglected for the more showy varieties of T. Gesneridna, 

 which are met with in some of our gardens, and which betray 

 their origin by their pointed petals, honey smell, and more or 

 less pubescence on the stalk. Of these garden varieties, the Van 

 Toll has been noticed. Those that are in cultivation at Florence 

 are either the improved T. s. mixta, or a large very double sort 

 of a mixture of white, pink, and green-pointed petals ; short 

 scape, smooth as far down as one or two green or party-co- 

 loured leaves, like bractas, and rough below them, where the 

 true scape begins ; the upper smooth part with its leaves (de- 

 tached petals) being, in fact, a monstrous elongated flower; also 

 some English or Dutch pink or lilac, and white, with pointed 

 petals, and stalks pubescent towards the base : that called the 

 early Edgar is one of this set. In cottage gardens in the west of 

 England are often seen two varieties that can only be referred 

 to this class of tulips : one is exactly the strangulata of Florence, 

 with a perfectly smooth stalk ; the other, a handsome variety of 

 the same, having the black and yellow eye of T. O. solis, from 

 which, however, it differs in every important character. These 

 pointed-petaled tulips are frequently introduced into Italian 

 paintings ; and in the gallery Gualtieri at Orvieto are six ob- 

 long pictures of flowers, with the date 1614, in which many of 

 these tulips are represented, besides other flowers, with the Italian 

 names of that time." {Bot. Beg., Sept.) 



