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presents a Tulip to his mistress, he gives her to understand by the general colour 

 that he is on fire with her beauty, and by the black base that his heart is burned to 

 a cinder. In many Eastern countries the presentation of a Tulip is considered to be 

 a declaration of love. Gerarde says of the Tulip, "I do verily think that these are the 

 lilies of the field, because the shape of these floures resembles lilies ; and in the places 

 whereof our Saviour was conversant, they grow wilde in the fieldes, and also because 

 of the infinite variety of colour which is to be found, more than in any other sorte of 

 floui-e, and, thirdly, the wondrous beauty and mixture of these floures. This is my 

 opinion, and these are my reasons which any may approve or gainsay as he shall 

 think good." After all the disquisition, however, as to which is the lily of the field, 

 it seems most likely that a species of Martagon lily, called Liliuin Syriacum, is 

 the flower which our Saviour especially bade us consider. Among cultivators and 

 fanciers of Tulips, those that are of one colour are called "Selfs;" when the flowers 

 are white, with \'iolet, brown or purple markings, they are called " Bybloemeus ;" 

 when white, and the markings are any shade of pink, red, or crimson, they are 

 " Roses ;" and when the ground is yellow marked with purple, scarlet, red, or any 

 other contrasted colour, they are " Bizarres." The last are prone to become double, 

 and these afibrd excellent examples of teratology, the ovary becoming partially con- 

 verted into petals, with ovules along the margin. The Dutch have long been famous 

 for theii' success in the cultivation of the Tulip, and we hear of fabulous prices being 

 given for rare bulbs ; indeed, at one time in England, as well as on the Continent, 

 the passion for this flower became something marvellous, and resulted in a sei-ies of 

 the most exti-aordinary speculations, amounting to a mania, now written of as the 

 " Tulipomania." It is recorded in the register of Alkmaar in Holland, that in 1639, 

 120 tulips with the offsets were sold for 90,000 florins, and that one called " The 

 Viceroy," sold for 4,203 guilders. The States at last put a stop to this ruinous 

 traflBc, which became in fact a gambling transaction, and was carried on in the 

 same manner as the sale of stocks on the Stock Exchange. 



GENUS X.—L L O Y D I A. Salish. 



Perianth coloured, widely rotate-funnelshaped or -cupshaped ; peri- 

 anth leaves 6, free, persistent, spreading, with a transverse plaitlike 

 nectariferous pore at the flat base, or without a nectariferous pore, not 

 papillose within. Stamens 6, adhering to the base of the perianth 

 leaves ; anthers inserted by their base upon the filaments. Style cylin- 

 drical-subclavate ; stigma trigonous. Capsule trigonous, 3-celled, 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds numerous, in two rows in each cell, 

 subhorizontal and subdiscoid, plano-convex, faintly margined; testa 

 rather soft, dusky brown. 



Herbs with a minute bulb surrounded by numerous membranous 

 envelopes. Leaves radical and cauline, linear ; those on the stem 

 sessile. Flowers small, erect, generally solitary, white, marked with 

 reddish lines on the inside. 



This genus is called after a botanist named Lloyd, a famous Cambrian antiquary, 

 linguist and botanist, the discoverer of the plant on the mountains of Cai-nai-voushii-e. 



