HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Fiitillaiia. 159 



By Fast castle, on the borders of Berwickshire, observed by Dr. 

 Parsons of Oxford ; also in Argylshire. Lightfoot. In West- 

 moreland. Huds. With. 



Perennial. June. 



Bulbs slender, pale, forming dense tufts. Leaves and Jlower-stalks 

 about a span high, cylindrical, hollow, glaucous and smooth ; 

 the former sheathing at the base. Umbel dense, hemispherical, 

 without bulbs. Bracteas 2, ovate, short. Fl. erect, of an ele- 

 gant purplish rose-colour. Petals acute, nearly upright. Stam. 

 awl-shaped, concealed within the flower. Germ, roundish, with 

 a very short style. 



188. FRITILLARIA. Fiitillary. 



Linn. Gen. \QA. Juss. 48. FLBr.360. Tourn.t. 201. Lam. t. 245. 

 Gartn. t. \7 . 



Nat. Orel. Coronarice. Linn. 10. Lilia. Juss. 14. N. 189 

 the same. 



Cal. none. Cor. inferior, bell-shaped, spreading at the base, 

 of 6 elliptic-oblong, parallel petals. Nectary a cavity just 

 above the base of each petal, at the inside. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, attached to the bottom of each petal, close to the 

 style, shorter than the corolla. Anth. oblong, quadrangu- 

 lar, attached by the back, erect. Germ, superior, obloiig, 

 obtuse, triangular. Style vertical, longer than the sta- 

 mens, simple. Stigmas 3, oblong, spreading, downy on 

 the upper side. Caps, oblong, obtuse, with 3 lobes, 3 cells, 

 and 3 valves, connected by network, with central parti- 

 tions. Seeds very numerous, flat, crowded one above an- 

 other in 2 rows ; their outer margin rounded. 



Root a lobed or scaly bulb. Stem unbranched, leafy. Leaves 

 linear-oblong, entire, smooth, sessile. Fl. one or more, 

 terminal, pendulous. Capsule erect. 



1. F. Meleagris. Common Fritillary. Chequered 

 Daffodil. Snake's-head. 



AU the leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, pointed. Stem 

 single-flowered. Nectary linear. Points of the petals 

 inflexed. 



F. Meleagris. Linn.Sp. Pl.42>&. mild.v. 2.91. Fl.Br.360. Engl. 



Bot.v.9.t.622. Curt. Lond.fasc.S.f. 20. FLDan.t.972. Jacq. 



Austr. app. t. 32. Redout. Liliac. t. 222. Wikstroem in Stockh. 



Trans. f or \S2\.Zb5. 

 F. n. 1235. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 115. 

 F. praecox purpurea variegata. Bauh, Pin. 64. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 



113./.]. 



