Chap VAI. ELORA 
| Fritillaria Pyrenea. 
pik black Fritillary is in all things like the yellowith green, but 
that the ftalk and flowers.are-fhorrer~than thofe of the laft, and 
of a dark fullen blackith green colour, _ 
| Frit Maria Hifpanica umbelisfera. 
Te _spanifsblack-Fritillary only differeth from the laft,in chat itis 
bigger, and beareth four or five flowers hanging round about the 
ftalkylikethofe:of the Crown Impertal, , 
The early'kinds of Fritillaries do flower about the end of March 
or beginning of Aprils, the other after thofe are paft, for the fpace.of 
a moneth onéafrer anothers the great yellow is the laft; whofe time, 
of flowering is in the end of May. 3 
oe = paties well snot bo; at react Fi 
The: foots lofe their fibres ds foon as thé ftalks. are dry 5 
ahd may ‘then, or any tinte:before the middle of <Asgu/f, be 
taken up and kepe dry for fome time, butif taken up too foon, 
or kept too long out. of ground, ; . will either perith or be much 
weakened.thereby 5 therefore take tfrem not up before the middle of 
Fuly, nor keep them.out of the ground after the beginning of As- 
guft', they may befet among ordinary Tulips, and other roots that 
lofe their fibres, in the beds of aKnot or Fret, where the nakednefs 
of the ftalks (efpecially of thofe of the firft kind) may be covered with 
the leaves of athe bd 
Doubtle(s many more diverfities of thefe Fritillaries may be rai- 
fed from the feeds of the beft»kinds, being fowed, preferved, and 
ordered in the famemanner as thofe of Twlips, few particulars need- 
ing exception either in: this, orimany other bulbous-rooted Plant, 
that lofeth the fibres; wherefore thofe that defire to practife che 
fowing of fuch feeds, Irefer to the general directions in the, end 
the Chapter of Tw/ips, where they will meet with ample fatisfacti- 
on therein, 2: ashy 
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