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segments are not recur-ved. (Name from the Latin fnlillas, a 

 dice-box, the common accompanimcift' of a cliequer-board, which 

 the marking of the flowers of some species resemUes.) 



I. F. Meledgris (Fritillary, Snalce's-head). — The only British 

 species, a beautiful plant, about a fodt high, witli a small bulb of 

 2 — 3 scales ; stem round, leafy, i — 2 flowered ; leaves linear-acute ; 

 flower droopmg, generally solitary, shaped hke a Tulip, curiously 

 chequered with pink and dull red, rarely white. — Water meadows 

 in the south ; rare. — V\. May. Perennial. 



14. TiJLiPA (Tulip). — Bulbous filants with radical and cauline 

 leaves and usually large, sulitary, erect fluvjers with bell-shaped, 

 deciduous perianth of 6 free segments, recurved at their tips, 

 without nectaries. (Name from the Pgrsian tulipan, a turban.) 



I. T. sylveslns (Wild Tulip). — The only British species; bulb 

 chestnut-bi'own ; stei)! about a foot high, round, .smooth ; leaves 

 few, hncar-lanceolate, glaucous ; flowers bright )-ellow, fragrant ; 

 perianih4eaves tipped with hairs. — Chalk pits ; rare. — Fl. April, 

 May. Perennial. 



15. (;.\GE..\ (Yellow Star of BethlelTem).— Bulbous plants with 

 radical, linear leaves ; few, small, yellow flowers, arranged in an 

 umbellate manner ; perianth-leaves 6, free, without nectaries, 

 spreading, persistent. (Named in honour of Sir Thomas Gage, an 

 English botanist.) 



I. G.h'itea (Yellow Star of Bethlehem). — The only British 

 species ; /'////' small ; radical leaf co^iimonly solitar)-, long and 

 narrow ; scape shorter than ihe leaves, with 2 opposite bracts and 

 an umbel of yellow flowers. — Woods ; local. — PI. ]\Pu-ch — May. 

 Perennial. 



16. J^T.6viir\ (Spiderwort). — Small bulbous plants with slender, 

 leafy 5/('//( ; thread-like leaves : and i or 2 small, erect, white or 

 yellow flowers; peria'ilh leaves 6, free, with transveise nectaries, 

 spreading, jjcrsistent. (Named in honour of I'xlward Plo\"d. the 

 antiquary, who discovered it in Nurth 'Wales.) 



1. L. scrotiiia (Mount.ain Spiderwort). — A (irctty little ])lant, 

 with 3 sided lea^'cs, the radical ones longer than the 2—8 m. scape, 

 which bears one white /lower with red veins. — Snowdon : vcr^rare. 

 — PI. June, July. Perennial. 



[7, Ci'.i ciiiri'M (Meadow Saffron).— I'nderground stem a solid 

 corm ; lcavc\ all radical, produced in spring ; flowers mostly 

 solitary, nearly sessile, erect, with a very long fi r/aiith-liibe, 

 resembling thc^se of Crocus, but \laiiicirf(j, extrorse : (rcor\' superior ; 



