852 



THE LILY FAMILY. 



Fig. 1023. 



In moist meadows and pastures, and 

 occasionally in woods, all across central 

 Europe, from France and southern 

 Scandinavia to the Caucasus, replaced 

 in southern Europe by a closely allied 

 species or variety. Occurs in several 

 parts of England, but perhaps truly wild 

 only in some of the southern and eastern 

 counties, and not in Scotland or Ireland. 

 Fl. spring. It varies occasionally with 

 white or yellowish flowers. 



VIII. TULIP. TULIPA. 



Bulbous herbs, with a leafy stem, and a single terminal flower (or 

 very rarely two), usually large and erect when fully out. Perianth 

 bell-shaped ; the segments free from the base, without any depression 

 in the centre. Stamens free from the perianth ; the anthers erect, 

 attached by their base. Capsule 3-celled, with several flattish hori- 

 zontal seeds in each cell, their testa pale and thin. 



A splendid genus, chiefly south European and west Asiatic, in- 

 cluding the Tulips of our gardens, which are most of them varieties of 

 T. Gesneriana. 



1. Wild Tulip. Tulipa sylvestris, Linn. (Fig. 1024.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 63.) 



Stem about a foot high, with 1, 2, or rarely 3 linear-lanceolate leaves, 

 and a single terminal yellow flower, drooping in the bud, nearly erect 

 when fully out, and with a faint fragrant smell. Perianth-segments 

 narrowed at the base and at the top, about 1\ inches long, the inner 

 ones rather broader than the outer. Stamens about half as long, with 

 a tuft of hairs at the base of the filaments. 



