HO HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Tulipa. 



F. variegata. Ger. Em. 149./. 



Meleagris. Dofl. Pempt. 233./. Renealm. Spec. 147. t. 146. Jig. 

 with the root and capsule. 



In moist meadows and pastures, chiefly towards the southern parts 

 of England. 



In Maud fields near Rislip Common, Middlesex ; Mr. Ashby. 

 Blackstone. Between ^Iortlake and Kew, and near Enfield. 

 Hudson. Near Laxfield, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. At Little 

 Stonham, in the same county, a troublesome weed. Mrs. Cob- 

 bold. Near Reading. Mr. Murray. 



Perennial. April. 



Bulbs small, depressed, roundish, aggregate, lobed. Stem a foot 

 high, round, leafy chiefly in the upper part, quite simple, droop- 

 ing at the top. Leaves alternate, rather distant, erect, chan- 

 nelled, pointed, somewhat glaucous. Flower terminal, pendu- 

 lous, the size of a large walnut, inodorous, regularly chequered 

 with pale and dark purple j sometimes white, but still chequered. 

 The points of the petals are more or less turned inwards, distin- 

 guishing this species from some exotic ones that have been con- 

 founded with it. The capsule is obovate, abrupt, with 6 furrows, 

 aud quite erect. 



189. TULIPA. Tulip. 



Linn. Gen. 165. Juss.48. Fl. Br. 361. Tourn. t. 199, 200. Lam. 

 t.244. Gccrtn. t. 17. 



Nat. Ord. see «. 188. 



Cal. none. Co7\ inferior, bell-shaped, of 6 ovate-oblong, 

 concave, erect petals. Nectaries none. Filam. 6, stout, 

 oblong, compressed, upr'ght, taper-pointed, shorter than 

 the pis fil. Anth. oblong, quadrangular, terminal, erect, 

 versatile. Germ, superior, large, oblong, with .3 more or 

 less blunt angles. Style none. Stig?na either triangular 

 or three-lobed, permanent. Caps, triangular, with 3 in- 

 termediate furrows, 3 cells and 3 valves, which are fruiged 

 at the edges, and have central partitions. Seeds very nu- 

 merous, flat, obovate, crowded one above another, in 2 

 rows, many of them usually abortive. 



Bulb coated, ovate. Stem simple, leafy at the bottom only. 

 Leaves lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, entire, tapering at 

 each end, smooth or downy. 2*7. terminal, yellow or red- 

 dish, mostly erect. 



I. T. st/lvestris. Wild Tulip. 



Flower solitary, a little drooping. Leaves lanceolate. Stigma 

 triangular, abrupt. Stamens hairy at the base. 



