FEITILLARIA 



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FEITILLARIA 



Fio. 156. — Fritillaria pudica. 



ins. high, native of Turkestan. It 

 has round stems and oblong glaucous 

 leaves. The drooping flowers are 

 borne in March and April, and are of 

 a lurid or plum-purple outside, with 

 a glaucous hue, and greenish-yellow 

 within, veined with deeper veins. The 

 variety hicolor has pale olive-green 

 flowers having a brownish crescent- 



Fio. 157. — Fritillasia jpyrenaica. (J) 



Fig. 158. — Fritillaria recurva. 



shaped blotch at the base of each 

 segment {Bot. Mag. t. 6371 ; Gartenfl. 

 t. 760). The variety discolor is a fine 

 one, figured in Flora and Sylva, 

 November 1905. 



F. tenella {F. montwna). — A native 

 of the Maritime Alps, having narrow 

 oblong leaves and yellowish flowers 

 distinctly chequered with purple {Bot. 

 Mag. t. 952). F. Ordniana, figured 

 in the Wierier Illustrirte Garten 

 Zeitwng, 1901, 127, 1. 1, is very closely 

 allied to this, if not actually identical. 



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