May. 
often wav’d or twitted, and they ftand irregularly, 
————"_ except at the Bottom, where Wis commonly are 
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found in Pairs. 
At the Top of the Stalk are plactd four, five, 
or fix Flowers, in an elegant Clutter. Each has 
its feparate flender Footftalk, and they all droop as 
in the other Kinds. The Points of many Leaves 
rife above them, and give the Whole fomewhat — 
the Bafe, and turn’d up a little at the Edges of May, 
the Petals. 
The Colour is a deep dufky Purple, with Va- 
riegations of a yellowifh green. On the Outfide 
the Colours are lefs diftinct; on the inner Part 
they are much more regularly difpos’d; and the 
whole Infide is of a polifh’d Surtace. 
This is produc’d from the Seeds of the Pyrenean 
the Appearance of the Crown Imperial. This is Kind ; but, like the laft defcrib’d, it muft, when 
not wonderful, for the Crown Imperial is alfo of | once obtain’d, be propagated farther by Roots, 
the Fritillary Kind. 
| for it fearce ever ripens any Seeds itfelf. 
The Flowers are fmall, hollow, angulated at : 
6 YELLOW ITALIAN FRITILLARY. 
This is a Variety from the Seed of the common 
. Purple Kind, but it varies greatly and elegantly 
from it in the Colouring of the Flower, and even 
in the general Eonforpiation of the Plant. 
The Root is large and whitifh. 
The Stalk is round, flefhy, and Bin: but rare- 
ly exceeds eight Inches in Height.. 
The Lewes are earkalsle broad, lef hol- 
Flower. It is very large, and particularly beau- 
tiful; round at .the Bafe, regularly open at the 
Mouth, and chequer’d all over with perfect Regu- 
larity. 
. The Ground Colour is a very fine Yellow: the 
Spots of a deep Crimfon, enclining a little to 
| Purple; and the outfide and inner both have a 
slofly Surface. This ripens Seeds in great Per- 
Crem nema owm tah, 
of the Seed brings on the fame: Change in. the 
Flower, 
wer, while there is no Want of Nourifhment, | entire, admit fometimes a faint Variegation. This | 
pile, and eight Inches high. 
low’d than in the other Kinds, and obtufe at the | fection, and they fhould be fav’d with Care. 
End, From the Top of the Stalk hangs one EE ty ie, ae 3 oer 
m, GREEN FRITILLARY., 
This is a Einal Variation of the Pyrenean unite into a broad flat common Pedicle, and the 
Kind: and, if lefs worthy to be cultivated than | Flowers grow from its Top together. This i is-a 
fome others for its Beauty, it has a Singularity | very fingular and not inelegant Appearance. 
that will very well fupply the Place. — The Flower is large, and compos’d, as in the 
The Root is large, and in favourable Soils will | others, of fix Petals: they are rounded at the 
fwell to a Bionefs beyond all Thought. | Ends, and naturally turn up a little at the Edges. 
‘The Stalk is round, uptight, green, and fpotted . The Colour is a dufky yellowifh green, {potted 
with purple and brown. on the Outfide obfcurely, and within more di- 
The Leaves are moderately broad, and of a | ftinctly with a deep blackifh Purple. The Spots 
fine frefh green. are not difpos’d in Chequers, as are moft of the 
The Flowers hang from the T op of the Stalk, 
often two, rarely more; fometimes only one; | rable Regularity. ‘This ripens its Seeds freely, 
and tho’ each, when there are more, has naturally and they fhould be fav’d for Sowing, 
its Footftalk feparate, the two will fometimes 
| 8. SNOWY FRITILLARY. 
This is a Variety of the common Purple Friti/- | pointed, and of a lively green. 
dary, and tho’ lefs fpecious than the generality of From the Top hangs one Flower : this is large, 
the others, fhould be preferv’d by all who culti- | broad at the Bafe, and fomewhat angulated, plain 
vate this Flower, for the Variety it ada among | at the Opening, and form’d as ufual of fix Petals, 
PHC. ieeet sf whofe Extremities ‘are pointed. 
: Nature fhews it in thofe Places where the Plant The Colour is often a pure and perfect White, 
is half ftarv’d; as we fee for the fame Reafon our | like Snow. Sometimes it has a Creamy Tinge, 
Blue-bell Flower, and many other wild Plants, | and fome Flowers fhew a pearly grey. All very 
whofe Flowers are naturally colour’d, become } elegant, with a lively Afpeé&t and glofly Surface. 
white thro’ Want of Nourifhment; but in thofe | — . 
The fame Seeds will produce others, which are 
Places the white is dead and dufky. dufky, and want the proper Luftre; but thefe 
In Gardens, where fome Accident in the Growth fhould be deftroy’d. : 
The White, which is generally uniform and 
the White becomes Satteny, bright, and delicate. | is not in Chequers, but in a kind of little Cref- 
This is the Flower the Curkons fhould preferve. | cents. 
‘The Root is fmall. ~The Stalk is round, weak, It ripens Seeds, but they need not be fav’d. I 
have, from repeated Experience, found them 
weak in the Principle of Growth, and there is no 
Certainty of their producing the fame Flower. 
Three or four Leaves ftand at’ Diftances upon 
it, and thele are narrow, ner hollow’d, fharp- 
% 9. DOUBLE 
| others, but they are thrown together with a tole~ 
