TULIPA. 



3. T. hiflora. Two-flowered Yellow Tulip. Pallas 

 It. V. 3. 727. t. D. f. 3. Linn. Suppl. 196. Willd. 

 n. 4 Stem two or three-flowered, with two fpreading lan- 

 ceolate leaves. Stigma triangular, abrupt, downy, fcarcely 

 notched. Petals widely fpreading, hairy, like the ftamens, 

 above their bafe ; fmooth at the tip, — Native of fait deferts 

 about the river Wolga, in a ftifF clay foil, along with the 

 laft, but flowering a few days earlier, and of much (horter 

 duration. This is fcarcely half the fize of T. Celfiana, of 

 which a two-flowered fpecimen has fometimes been taken for it. 

 The more firaple_/?;^Hi7, more elliptical and expanded petals, 

 green at the back, and more oblong anthers, are abundantly 

 different from that fpecies. From the fylvejris the prefent 

 is ftill more unlike, as to fize, fmoothnefs of the tips of 

 its petals, and their flat fpreading polition, to fay nothing 

 of an orange fpot at their bafe. The foliage too is faid 

 by Pallas to be more glaucous and fucculent. Thejlowers 

 vary rarely to one or three, and are fragrant. 



4. T. Sibthorpiaua. Yellow Greek Tulip. Sm. Prodr. 

 Fl. Grsec. Sibth. v. i. 229. Fl. Grace, t. 330, unpubl. — 

 Stem fingle-flowered, fmooth. Flower drooping. Petals 

 obtufe. Stigma club-fliaped. Filaments hairy all over. — 

 Firit obferved by the late profeflTor Sibthorp, near the an- 

 cient Crelfa, now Porto Cavalieri, in Afia Minor ; and af- 

 terwards, as Mr. Hawkins informs us, on a fmall rocky 

 eminence near Navarin, in the Peloponnefus. The root is 

 a white, roundifh, deprefTed bulb, fcarcely an inch in dia- 

 meter, furrounded by numerous lateral offsets. Stem a fpan 

 high, bearing two alternate ereft fmooth leaves, of which 

 tite lowefl; is largefl and moft ovate. Flower entirely yel- 

 low, pendulous, an inch long. Petals apparently fmooth in 

 every part. Stamens whitifh as well as the piflil. Anthers 

 linear, beaked, nearly as long as the filaments, which are 

 clothed from top to bottom with fhort denfe prominent hairs. 

 Germen Ihort, obtufely triangular, fmooth. Stigma twice 

 or thrice the length of the germen, triangular-clublhaped, 

 obtufe, (lightly three-lobed, almoft as hairy in every part as 

 the filaments. This is a very diftinft fpecies. 



5. T. Clufiana. Red and White Italian Tulip. Redout. 

 Liliac. t. 37. Ait. Epit. 375. Curt. Mag. t. 1390. Sm. 

 Prodr. Fl. Grxc. Sibth. v. i. 229. Fl. Gtxc. t. 329, 

 unpublifhed. (T. perfica precox ; Cluf. Cur. Poft. 9, with 

 a figure. T. perfica, flore rubro, oris albidis, elegans ; 

 Ger. Em. 142. T. perfica ; Park. Parad. 52. t. 53. f. 6. 

 T. variegata perfica ; Rudb. Elyf. v. 2. 1 1 1, f. 7.) — Stem 

 fingle-flowered, fmooth. Flower ereft. Petals acute, 

 fmooth. Leaves linear-lanceolate. — Native of Italy, Sicily, 

 and Perfia, flowering in March. About the fize of T. J'yl- 

 vfjlris, but the fiem bears four or five leaves, gradually 

 fmaller and narrower upwards, moft glaucous beneath, 

 fmooth, fomewhat undulated, at leaft the lower one ; all 

 taper-pointed. The three inner petals are white on both fides, 

 fometimes bluntifh ; three outer rather larger, acute, white 

 or blufh-coloured within, crimfon at the back, with white 

 edges, and a green tip ; all of them marked at the bafe in- 

 ternally with a dark-violet fpot, and all quite fmooth in every 

 part, as are the violet-colouredy/amfnx, and green^//?;/. The 



Jligma confifts of three rounded, comprelTed lobes, each 

 marked with a downy furrow, like the Garden TuHp here- 

 after defcribed. 



6. T. ftiaveolens. Early Dwarf Tulip. Roth. Catal. 

 V. I. 45. Curt. Mag. t. 839. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. 2. 

 Redout. Liliac. t. 1 1 1. (T. Pumiho; Lob. Ic. 127. Ger. 

 Em. 142. T. Pumilio latifolia ; Rudb. Elyf. v. 2. 109. 

 f. 2.) — Stem fingle-flowered, downy. Flower erecl. Leaves 

 ovato-lanceolate ; downy above. Petals and filaments 

 fmooth. — Suppofcd to be a native of the fouth of Europe. 



Commonly cultivated in Holland, by the name of Due Fan 

 Thai, from whence the beft roots are brought to us. They 

 flower in the open ground in March or April, but in a room, 

 whether in water, fand, or earth, about January. The 

 whole plant is of a dwarf ftature, and glaucous hue. Flonver 

 broad-bellfliaped, fweet-fcented. Petals fcarlet, edged with 

 yellow, more or lefs acute. Stigma like the Jall, but rather 

 larger. 



7. T. Ocuhs folk. Agen Tulip. " St. Araans Rec. 

 Soc. d'Agr. d'Agen, v. 1. 75." Redout. Lihac. t. 219. 

 Ker m Edw. Bot. Regift. t. 204. (T. bolonienfis, five 

 bombycma, flore rubro, major; Park. Parad. 51. t. 53. 

 f. I.) — Stem fingle-flowered, fmooth, as well as the petals 

 and filaments. Flower ereft. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, 

 finely fringed — Found about Agen, in France, and feveral 

 places in the fouthern part of that kingdom, flowering in April, 

 and lately imported into England, by Meflrs. Whitley and 

 Co. of Fulham. This differs from the laft in the particulars 

 contained in our fpccific charafter, and more nearly ap- 

 proaches the following. The coat of the hull is faid to be 

 internally woolly. Leaves broad, fiiglitly glaucous. Flower 

 large and bell-fliaped, of a fine fcarlet red, each petal marked 

 with a broad, black, yellow-edged fpot at its bafe. Stigma 

 like the following. 



8. T. Gefneriana. Common Garden Tulip. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 438. Willd. n. 3. Ait. n. 3. Curt. Mag. t. 1 135. 

 " Sowerb. Fl. Luxur. t. 5, 6. 11. 17." (Tulipje ; Rudb. 

 Elyf. V. 2. 102 — 108.) — Stem fingle-flowered, fmooth, as 

 well as the petals and filaments. Flower creft. Leaves 

 ovato-lanceolate, glaucous, fmooth. Lobes of the iligma 

 decurrent, deeply divided Native of the country border- 

 ing on mount Caucafus, where it flowers in April, and from 

 whence Dr. Fifcher has fent us a wild fpecimen. Conrad 

 Gefner reports, that it was brought from Cappadocia into 

 the European gardens, in 1559. Nothing is now more 

 coinmon or more famous, particularly the many varieties in 

 form and colour, which florifts, efpecially in Holland, have 

 fo much cultivated, and in fome cafes fo highly prized. The 

 old botanical writers, in their wooden cuts, rcprcfent many 

 of thefe, and almoft all the fuppofed fpecies in Bauhin's 

 Pinax, are really, as Linnaeus indicates, mere varieties. In 

 a wild ftate, the petals are crimfon, yellowifh at the bafe, 

 about an inch and a half long ; by cultivation they increafe 

 ill fize, become ilreaked in colour, and fometimes affume a 

 jagged and fpurred appearance, with every variety of fcarlet, 

 yellow, purple, and even green, in their colouring. This 

 we firfl called the Parrot Tulip, a name now generally 

 adopted. It is Rudbeck's T.fiore luteo rubro variegato, 

 petalis laciniatis. Camp. Elyf. v. 2. 1 08. A plain yellow 

 Tuhp, the blunt points of whofe petals are fomewhat re- 

 curved, and whofe whole fiower is of a handfome ovate 

 figure, feems to us poflibly a diftindl fpecies ; but this mull 

 be decided by cultivation from feed. 



TuLlPA, in Gardening, furnilhes plants of the bulbous- 

 rooted, flowery, perennial kind, among which the fpecies 

 cultivated are the Gefner, Turkey, Cappadocia or com- 

 mon garden tulip (T. Gefneriana) ; and the wild or yellow 

 tulip (T. fylveftris). 



The firit is diftinguifhed from the other fort, according 

 to Martyn, by its pubefcent fcapc, fpreading fweet-fmelhng 

 corolla, the earlinefs of its flowering, and the fmallnefs of 

 its fize. 



And in refped to the varieties, the editor of Miller's 

 Diftionary obfervcs, that the old authors divided tulips into 

 pmcoces or early-blowers, zndferotime or late-blowers, with 

 an intermediate divifion of elul/ia medis, doubtful or niiddle- 

 blowers, which flowered between the two others, and for 



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