TULIPA 



LILY OBDEB 



BEYTHRONIUM 869 



Culture do. as above, p. 860. It is 

 slowly increased by offsets, but seeds also 

 ripen well. It is found wild with the 

 crimson and black flowered T. armena and 

 a fine new Golden Tulip with green basal 

 blotches, T. galatica, neither of which is 

 yet known well. 



T. suaveolens. — This is the wild form 

 of the early red and orange (not scarlet) 

 Due van Thol Tulips. It is a native of 

 the Crimea and S.E. Eussia, and has 

 broad leaves, scapes about 6 in. high, each 

 ending in a single sweet-scented large 

 flower, bright scarlet in colour, bordered 

 with yellow. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



T. sylvestris. — This is our wild British 

 TuHp found in chalk pits and waste ground 

 in various parts of England. It has linear 

 glaucous leaves 6-10 in. long, and bright 

 yellow fragrant flowers 2 in. deep, borne 

 in April and May on flexuous stems 1-2 

 ft. high. The filaments are hairy or woolly 

 at the base. 



T. biehersiemiwna from S. Eussia and 

 Asia Minor may be regarded as a smaU- 

 flowered form of the wild English Tulip. 

 T. fragrana from Algiers resembles 

 T. sylvestris, but is smaller and not so 

 hardy. T. stra/ngulata from the neigh- 

 "bourhood of Florence may also be 

 regarded as a form of T. sylvestris, 

 although there are red and yellow 

 flowered forms, with a black centre. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



T. turkestanica. — A native of 

 Turkestan, with broadly linear lance- 

 shaped leaves, and white flowers about 

 li in. across, with a yellow stain or blotch 

 at the base of each segment. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



T. undulatifolia. — A handsome species, 

 native of the Bozdagh Mountains near 

 Smyrna. It has glaucous narrow lance- 

 shaped leaves about 6 in. long, channelled 

 down the centre and wavy on the edges. 

 The scapes are 6-9 in. high, each bearing 

 a bell-shaped flower about 2 in. deep, 

 bright crimson inside, greenish-red out- 

 side, the centre being black with a yellow 

 border. Some forms have a yellow 

 centre, and flatter, less wavy leaves. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



T. violacea. — A native of the Talysoh 

 Mountains in North Persia, resembling 

 T. clusiana, but has narrower leaves, 



and smaller flowers of a brilliant deep 

 carmine-red, borne on scapes about 6 in. 

 high. It begins to bloom earlier than 

 any other species and is from that point 

 of view very valuable. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



T. viridiflora (Qreen Tulip). — A very 

 curious but not particularly handsome 

 garden form of T. gesneriana, with large 

 greenish or greenish-yellow flowers having 

 brighter yellow stripes and bands of 

 yellow. The Parrot Tulips are supposed 

 to be derived from this peculiar plant. ' 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



T. vitellina. — A sturdy form of T. 

 gesneriana, having ovate lance-shaped 

 acute glaucous leaves, and large and 

 beautiful flowers of a delicate whitish, 

 yellow, the segments of which are bluntly 

 ovate. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 860. 



ERYTHRONIUM (Dog's Tooth 

 Violet). — A genus of pretty herbaceous 

 plants with tunicated corms which pro- 

 duce new ones either at the base vdthin 

 the old coats or at the end of long off- 

 shoots, or along a rhizome, sometimes in 

 succession for several years. The leaves 

 on the stems are unequal, one being 

 usually narrower and more tapering than 

 the other. The mottling varies greatly 

 even in the same species, and may some- 

 times be absent altogether. The flowers 

 are nodding or drooping, solitary, or 2 or 

 more in a loose raceme. The perianth con- 

 sists of 6 distinct narrow segments, which 

 unite into a tube at the base. They are 

 often recurved or reflexed from the middle 

 or near the base, and are furnished with 

 2 am:ioles or scales at the bottom. Sta- 

 mens 6, hypogynous, or scarcely adnate to 

 the base of the segments. Ovary sessile 

 3-celled. Styles united or separated. 

 Capsule many-seeded. 



Until a comparatively recent period 

 the Common European Dog's Tooth 

 Violet was the only species of Bry- 

 thronium cultivated, but now most of the 

 fifteen species knovim altogether are 

 grown, although most of them are still 

 rather scarce. With the solitary excep- 

 tion of the European and Asiatic E. 

 Dens-Canis, they are all natives of the 

 United States. Prom a flower-garden 

 point of view they are a beautiful and 

 hardy group, well suited for the rock 

 garden, the edges of flower borders or 



