92 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Tulipa. 



slightly furrowed. Ls. long^, tapering, hollow, fading before the 

 flowers come out. Fl. pet. closed, pale-rose-colour, keels green. 

 Spatlia pointed, deciduous. Stam. longer than the pet., the hair- 

 like, side extremities of three thrice divided ones, horizontally 

 spreading. Young shoots in salad, or boiled. 



* * Stalks immediately from the root, naked. 



A. ursinum.^ Broad-leaved G. Ramsons. Stalk im- 

 mediately from the root, naked, semicylindrical, with 

 four angles. Leaves elliptic-spear-shaped, stalked. 

 Umbel level-topped. Stamens simple. E. B. 122. 



G. E. 179. 



Woods, hedges, meadoivs. Stow Wood. B.v. Headington Wick 



Copse. Sb. 

 Per. June. 

 Root a slender bulb, fibres long, fleshy. The broad Is. all from the 



root. SpatJia two-leaved. Fl. white, numerous, large. 



Difiicult of eradication. Communicates its nauseous flavour to 



milk and butter, when cows eat the plant. 



FRITILLA'RIA.* Fritillary. ' 



V. Meledgris? Common F. Chequered Daffodil. Snake' s- 

 head. All the leaves alternate, linear-spear-shaped, 

 pointed. Stem single-flowered. Nectary linear. Points 

 of the petals bent inwards. E. B. 622. C. 3. 20. 

 Baxter's Plates, 1. F. variegata. G. E. 149- 



Moist meadows, j)astures. Magdalen College Meadow. Cowley 

 Meadows. Sb. Burghfield Meadows, near Reading. Mrs. 

 Bockett. Standlake. IFh. 



Per. April. 



Root a small bulb. Stem erect, about one foot, round, leafy. Fl. 

 bell -shaped, elegantly chequered with pale and dark purple, 

 drooping. Fruit erect. 

 Far. Fl. white. 



TULIPA.* Tulip.5 



T. sylvestris. Wild T. Flower solitary, a little droop- 

 ing. Leaves spear-shaped. Stigma triangular, abrupt. 



' Be?flr's, or bearish, Lat. Sir J.E.Smith observes, — the coarseness of its qua- 

 lities, like the manners of some human beings, may, in both cases, justify a 

 comparison. E. F. 



* From the chequered appearance of the flower, somewhat resembling a 

 chess-board, /riiJWiw. 



3 Meleagris, from the resemblance of the flower to the painted wings of the 

 Meleagris, Guinea-hen, or Pintado. 



* From toliban, Pers. a turban, from the shape and colour of the flower. 



* See Beckmann's History of Inventions, &c. 



