92 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Tulipa. 



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

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

 Spatha pointed, deciduous. Siam. 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. lU'sinum.^ Broad-leaved G. Ramsons. Stalk im- 

 mediately from the root, naked, semicylindrical, %vith 

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

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

 G. E. 179. 



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



Copse. Sb. 

 Per. June. 

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



root. Spatha two-leaved. FL white, numerous, large. 



Difficult of eradication. Communicates its nauseous flavour to 



milk and. butter, when cows eat the plant. 



FHITILLA'RIA.^ Fritillary. 



F. Meleagris. ^ 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 meadoivs, pastures. 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. 

 Var. FL white. 



TULIPA.-^ Tulip.5 



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

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



' Bears, 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, /rjfi/Zu*. 



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

 Melehgris, Guinea-hen, or Pintado. 



* F'rom toliban, Pers. a turban, from the shape and colour of the flower. 



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



