174 110. Tulipa. 14. LILIACEiE. Plend.ph. 



Old chalk-pits ; perennial ; April. 



Stem upright, 12 in. high; leaves glaucous; _/?o we? .s be- 

 fore they open drooping, then become upright, sweet- 

 scented, yellow. 



II. 111. FRITILLARIA. Lobel. Fritillary, 



Perigonium cupshape, 6-parted ; lobes flat at bottom, 

 keeled, with a linear nectariferous pit on the inside ; stamens 

 as long as the perigonium; capsule 3-sided, blunt; corculum 

 not one-fourth so long as the perisperm. — Combus smooth, 

 round, solid ? one above the other; stem upright, from one 

 side of the bulb, simple ; j^otcer terminal, solitary, or on 

 a loose raceme ; bractece none. 



Fritillaria tessellata. Chequered fritillary. 



Leaves all alternate, linear, channelled ; stem l-flowered. 



Fritillaria variegata, Ger, em. 149. 

 Fritillaria Meleagris, Lin. S. P. 436. 

 Fritillaria tesselata, Salisb. Prod. 236. 

 Fritillaria graminifolia, Stokes B, M. M. 232, 

 Chequered Daffodil, Snakes-heads. Guinea-hen floieer. 



Moist fields and meadows ; perennial ; April. 



Stem 18 in. high, upright, smooth, leafy; leaves rather 

 acute ', flowers dixoo^'mg', fruit upright and much lengthened 

 after flowering. 



&. serotina. Flowers variegated, purple and black. 



y. multiflora. Stem 2 or 3-flowered. 



^. alba. Flowers white. 



e. lutea. Flowers yellow. 



Fam. X. 15. ASPHODELE^. Asphodelearum maxima 

 parSf Brown. Liliacearum sectio, De Candolle. 

 Asphodeli, Jussieu. 

 Perigonium petaloid, 6-parted or 6-cut, regular, free; 

 stamens 6, hypogynous, opposite to the lobes ; outer lobes 

 sometimes dissimilar; ovary 1, free, 3-celled, many-seeded; 

 style 1; stigma 1, not nicked; capsule 3-celled, 3-valved; 

 partitions on the middle of the valves ; seeds roundish or 

 angular, mostly in a double series, affixed to the central 

 margin of the partitions ; spermodermis single, crustaceous, 

 black, brittle ; corculum inclosed ; perisperm fleshy. — Herb 

 bulbose ; leaves radical, sometimes cauline, sheathing, rib- 

 bed ; ribs simple, parallel ; flowers bracteated or naked, 

 terminal, solitary, racemose, or umbelled. 



