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May. 
Cia eee 
Pl. 32. 
Fig. 4. 
44 PAINTED AMETHYSTINE 
. The Tulips like the Anemonies, innumerable 
as they are in our Gardens, are the Off-{pring of 
a very few original Kinds. We fhall defcribe 
fome of the moft fingular, but caution the young 
Botanift againft fuppofing them fo many Spe- 
cies. This and a Thoufand others will rife from 
the Seed of one of the good early Tulips, and 
it is one of the largeft and fineft of them all. 
_ The earlier Authors have called it, Tulipa pre- 
cox major it is named by many others, Tulipa | 
. precox Amethyflina varia: 
‘and TournerortT have called it. 
_ the common Stock from the broad-leav’d Tulip, : 
diftinguith’d by Linn aus under the Name Tulipa — 
thus Joun Baunine 
fore ereéto foliis ovato lanceolatis, upright flowerd 
- Tulip, with oval Spear-pointed Leaves. 
The Root is bulbous, of an oblong Shape, 
- white within, and cover’d with a brown Mem- 
| The Leaves are large, broad; oblong, | 
_ hollowed, pointed at the End, and of-a pale | 
greyifh green, they.are waved at the Edges, and 
_. they appear dufty. 
_.. The Stalk rifes. in the Midtt of rete, and is | 
firm. and upright, fifteen Inches high, of a pale 
brane. 
green Colour, dufted with a grey Powder, and 
there are on it two or thrée Leaves perfeétly like 
thofe from the Root, but {maller, 
At the Top ftands one Flower, large, and of 
a true and fine Shape, equal in that refpect to 
moft of the late Tulips, and ate to many of 
them in colouring. 
The Petals which form it are fix, and ieee are 
_ placed. in two Series, three outer and three inner, 
‘The three inner ones are fomewhat larger than. 
the outer three, and are more perfectly colour’d. 
It is one of | 
TULTP. 
They are difpos’d fo as to form a kind of Bell, 
handfomely rounded at the Bottom, and in their 
Courfe upright, {carce sae 3 at all ent, 
| or bending inwards. 
There is no Cup to the Flower; it rifts naked 
at the Head of the Stalk, but the Firmnef of the 
Petals, and hollow’d Form of the whole, are 
| very well calculated to preférve the Parts of Fruc- 
tification without that A ffittance. 
In the Centre rife fix Filaments, erown’d with 
, very long, and large Buttons of a brownith Co- 
| lour; and in the Midft of them is placed a fingle | 
Stigma. of a. triangular Form, and. divided as it 
were into three Parts; ‘there-is ‘no Style, but this 
is fix’d on the Top: of the Rudiment of the Seed- : 
veflel. : 
The Grab Colour of the Flower. is a sscarly 
grey, with a Tinge of faint crimfon: diffus’d. all 
over it; and the whole Body, infide: and: outy 
is beautifully variegated with a deeper . Ting, 
with fome Admixture of blucith, - . This is the 
true Amethyftine Colour, it is difpos’d i in Stripes, 
Streaks and Blotches, with a very pleafing Irre- 
gularity. ‘The Stripes are broad, and they begin 
from the Bottom of the Flower, and are conti- 
nued to the Top: the Streaks, are: flenderer,. and 
lofe. themfelves. at. a fimall Diftance from the | 
Top; and the Blotches. which are oblong, waved, 
and clouded, lofe themfelves in the fame Manner, 
at a {mall Space from their Origin, which is prin- 
cipally, at the Edges of the Petals, near their. Top. 
_ The fix Filaments and fingle Style fhew the 
Plant, one of the Hexandria Monogynia, Its Cul- 
ture we fhall deliver at. large with that of the 
other Tulips i in our next Number, 
50 ¥cB. Lad OLE ASPHODEL tL, 
A Plant well known in our Gardens, ad very | others of the fame Gets, and we fhall treat of 
* well deferving its Place in them;. fpecious, and of | them: this Name diftinguithes the prefent Species ig 
'~ eafy Culture : 
bearing without Shelter, the Seve- , 
‘rity of our worft Seafons. The Root is tuberous and yellow ; s it confitts 
The Botanifts of all late Times have been well | of numerous oblong Parts conneéted to one com- 
acquainted with the Plant, and they have agreed | mon Head, and fing with thick Fibres. 
from. them all. 
to call it by the fame Name ‘A/phodell, A/phedelus, 
to which they have added the Colour of. its 
Flowers as diftinttive from other Kinds, Yellow 
Afphodell. Some from its ereét Form and golden 
Afpect, have named it Ha/tula Regia, whence the 
- Vulgar Englifb Name, King’s Spear, a literal Tran- 
" flation of that Term. 
Others after Camerartius make it the Female — 
of the A/phodels, and name it as he does’ A/pho- 
(feliis jifiulofis triquetris ; 
delus femina, but there is no Foundation in Na- 
ture for this DiftinGtion. 
Linnus in the Place of thefe vague and 
arbitrary Titles, names it Afphodelus caule foliofo 
leafy ftalk’d Afphodel, 
with three corner’d hollow’d Leaves. There are 
N° 33. 
The Leaves rife in a vaft Tuft, and are long, 
flender, and of a pale green, naturally greyith, 
often yellowifh: they are ea No edg’d, hol- 
low’d, and fharp pointed. 
~The Stalk is-a Yard high, round, firm, robutt, 
and perfectly-upright. | 
The Leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
they are like thofe from the Root but fmaller, 
and ufually paler. o 
The Flowers are extreamly numerous, they 
form a long and flender Spike, covering the Stalk 
from the Middle upwards, and furrounding it in- 
numerably ; Buds opening, full blown, and fade- 
ing Flowers always cluftering clofe round it toge- 
ther. 
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