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fecond fpecies, the kaiiss are perfcftly linear ; the root by 

 no means fafciculate, except its fibres, being exaftly like 

 the former ; to which the fynonyms, even of Linnxus him- 

 felf, undoubtedly belong. A figure of T. cepacca is much 

 wanted. The plant is faid to flower at Kew in April. 



3. T. hypoxidea. Short-crowned Green Tulbagia — 

 Flowers dro(>ping. Neftary very ihort and obtufe. Seg- 

 ments of the limb of the corolla taper-pointed. — This 

 hitherto nondefcript fpecies flowered in March 1792, in 

 the ftove of Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammerfmith, 

 who received the root from Holland. There can be little 

 doubt of its having been brought to that counti-y from the 

 Cape of Good Hope. The leaves are linear and very 

 narrow, about one-fourth the breadth of T. alliacea. The 

 tnjlorefcence, as well as the pofture and general afpeft of the 

 jtonuers, moft refemble that fpecies. The corolla is green, 

 but its fegments more taper-pointed, and full as long as the 

 tube ; while the neSary is extremely (hort and blunt, rifiag 

 but little above the mouth of the tube, and confifting, if 

 we miftake not, of three undivided lobes. — Mr. Sowerby 

 made a drawing of this fpecies at the period above-men- 

 tioned, which, though now miflaid, may one day probably 

 be given to the public. 



Tulbagia, in Gardening, contains plants of the 

 tender, herbaceous, exotic kind, among which the fpecies 

 cultivated are, the alliaceous or garhc tulbagia (T. alli- 

 acea) ; and tiie cepaceous or onion tulbagia (T. cepacea). 



Method of Culture. — In each of thefe forts, the young 

 plants may be increafed by fowing the feeds, flipping the 

 branches, and offsets from the roots. 



The feeds ihould be fown while frefh in pots filled with 

 light mould, and be plunged into a tan hot-bed any time 

 in the autumn or fpring feafons, when they vnll foon begin 

 to grow. And the flips and offsets may be planted and 

 managed in the fame way. The young plants in all the 

 cafes mull conilantly remain in the ftove, and have water 

 occafionally given them. 



Both thefe plants afford an agreeable diverfity in ftove 

 eoUedlions. 



TULBING, in Geography, a town of Auftria ; 4 miles 

 S.S.E. of Tuln. 



TULCZA, a town of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, 

 on the fouth fide of the Danube, oppofite Ifmail. In the 

 year 1771, this town was taken by the Ruffians, and again 

 in 1790. 



TULCZIN, a town of Ruffian Poland ; 12 miles S.W. 

 of Braclaw. 



TULEBRAS, a tovvn of Spain, in Navarre, on the 

 Queios ; 7 miles from Tudela. 



TULIAN, a town of South America, in the province 

 of Cordova; no miles N.W. of Cordova. 



TULIPA, in Botany, an acknowledged barbarous name, 

 faid to be of Perfian origin, like the celebrated and popular 

 flower which bears it. The Perfian word from whence, with 

 a very little alteration, this name is taken, feems to be 

 nearly fynonimous, in that language, with a turban ; nor 

 is this article of drefs, in a Perfian of rank, unlike the 

 fwelling form of a tulip. — Linn. Gen. 165. Schreb. 220. 

 WiUd. Sp. PL V. 2. 96. Mart. MiU. DiA. v. 4. Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. V. 2. 248. Sm. Fl. Brit. 361. Prodr. Fl. 

 Graec. Sibth. v. i. 229. Juff. 48. Tourn. t. 199, zoo. 



Lamarck Illuftr. t. 244. Gxrtn. t. 17 Clafs and order, 



Hexandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Coronarie, Linn. Lilia, 

 Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cat. none. Cor. bcH-fhaped, inferior, of 

 fix ovate-oblong, concave, creft, deciduous petals. Stam. 

 Filaments fix, awl-lliaped, much (horter than the eoroUa, 



taper-pointed ; anthers oblong, quadrangulai", ereft, ver- 

 fatile, diftant. P'ljl. Germen fuperior, large, oblong, 

 bluntly triangular; ftyle none; ftigma with three promi- 

 nent angles, or three divided lobes, permanent. Perk. 

 Capfule triangular, fomewhat elliptical, of three cells, and 

 three ovate valves fringed towards the edges. Seeds very 

 numerous, flat, femicircular, lying horizontally over each 

 other, in a double row, with fcales of the fame fhape (or 

 barren leeds) between. 



Eff. Ch. Corolla bell-fliaped, of fix petals. Style 

 none. Capfule fuperior, of three cells. Seeds flat. Calyx 

 none. 



1. T. fyhejlris. Wild Yellow Tulip. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 438. Willd. n. I. Fl. Brit. n. i. Engl. Bot. t. 63. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 375. Curt. Mag. t. 1202. Redout. Liliac. 

 t. 165. (T. Ijononienfis ; Ger. Em. 138.) — Flower foli- 

 tary, fomewhat drooping. Leaves lanceolate. Stigma tri- 

 angular, abrupt, flightly three-cleft. StamenI hairy at the 

 bale. Petals acute, hairy at the tip. — Native of Sweden, 

 England, Bohemia, Germany, Switzerland, and France, 

 flowering in April. Root an ovate bulb, flattifli at one fide, 

 prominent at the other. Stem quite fimple, ereft, round, 

 fmooth, twelve or eighteen inches high ; leafy in the middle ; 

 tapering at the bafe. Leaves about three, alternate, lanceo- 

 late, acute, keeled, entire, fmooth, fomewhat glaucous ; 

 the uppermoft linear and much the narroweft. Floivsr 

 drooping, till it is fully expanded, of a fine golden yellow, 

 fweet-fcented ; the three outermoft petals greenifli at the 

 back ; all of them elliptical, acute at each end, and tipped 

 with a little white wool at the fummit ; three innermoft 

 fringed with fimilar wool at the bafe. Stamens yellow ; 

 their filaments denfely woolly at the bottom ; anthers linear- 

 oblong. Germen pale yellow or greenifli, crowned with a 

 triangular, abrupt, not dilated Jligma, gradually fplitting 

 into three fmall notches, flightly downy at the top. The 

 Early Yellow Tulip of the gardens, which is figured in 

 the plates of Redoute and Curt. Mag. cited above, can 

 hardly be diftinguiflied from our wild kind, except being 

 larger, with a rather more deci€edly three-lobed woolly 



Jligma. Our Bohemian wild fpecimens are intermediate be- 

 tween the two. 



2. T. Celfiana. Small Yellow Tuhp. Redout. Lihac. 

 t. 38. Ait. Epit. 37 J. Curt. Mag. t. 717, erroneoufly 

 named there Melanthium uniflorum. (T. biflora ; Donn. 

 Cant. ed. 5. 75 ? T. perfica minima; Rudb. Elyf. v. 2. 

 112. f. 8.) — Flower moftly folitary, ereft. Leaves lanceo- 

 late. Stigma triangular, with three ftiort, rounded, downy 

 lobes. Stamens flightly hairy above their bafe. Petals 

 fmooth at the tip. — Native of the fouth of Europe, and 

 of the banks of the Wolga. We have known this fpecies 

 for above twenty-five years in Chelfea garden, where it was 

 cultivated by the late Mr. Fairbairn, in pots, amongft 

 alpine plants, protefted by a frame in winter, and flowered 

 about May. So little was it underftood, that the able writer 

 on this tribe of plants inCurtis's Magazine originally miftook 

 this Tuhp for Melanthium unijlorum ; an error correAed at 

 t. 1135 of the fame work. It is very nearly allied to the 



fylvejlris, but not half fo large, and the jlower is tinged 

 with red externally. The three innermoft /ic/a/f are flightly 

 fringed at the lower part, but all fix are quite fmooth at 

 the extremity. 'Y\\e:Jlamens are fmooth at the bafe, though 

 they bear a tuft of hairs a little way above it. Anthers 

 fliorter, and more elliptical, than in T. fylvejlris. Stigma 

 more decidedly three-lobed, rounded, and downy. Capfule 

 elliptical. Very rarely there are two flowers on a ftem. 

 They have no fcent. Each petal has fometimes, not always, 

 a green keel. 



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