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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class VI. 
772. TU'LIPA. W. Tunp. 
4504 sylvestris W. wild 
4505 turcica liot/i. nar.-waved-lvd. 
4506 oculus solis JR. L. Agen 
4507 Gesneriaiia W. common 
4508 suaveolens W. Van Thol 
4509 clusiana B. M. Clusius's 
4510 celsiana P. S. Cels's 
4511 cornuta R. L. horned 
4512 biflora L. two-flowered 
773. FRITILLA'RIA. JV. Fritillary. 
4513 Imperialis W. Crown Imper. 
a. rUbra red-flowered 
(ifldva yellow-flowered 
4514 persica W. Persian ?f 
/3 minima Swert. dwarf-Persian ^ 
4515 obliqua B. M. oblique-leaved ^ 
4516 tubpifolia Bieb. tulip-leaved ^ 
4517 verticillata TV. whorled ^ 
4518 pyrenaica H. K. cluster-flowered ^ 
4519 nigra B. M. Pyrenean ^ 
4520 nervosa W. en. nerved-leaved ^ 
4521 lutea Bieb. yellow-flower. ^ 
4522 latifolia W. broad-leaved $ 
4523 Bleleagris W. chequered $ 
4.524 lanceolata Ph. spear-leaved ^ 
Lilium kamchatsense W. 
774. DRACffi'NA. W. Dragon-Tree. 
4525 Draco W. common 
452fj ensifolia W. sword-leaved )£ 
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Liliiacece. Sp. 9 — 11. 
1 ajxmy Y England ch. pit. 
2 ap.mv St 
Italy 1816. 
Levant 1577. 
S. Europe 1603. 
W.pu Sicily 1636. 
Y Levant 
St Levant 
Y Russia 
Sp. 12—19 
Persia 
Persia 
Persia 
Persia 
Persia 
1816. 
1806. 
1596. 
1596. 
1596. 
1596. 
1596. 
1 ap R.B 
2 ap.my St 
i mr.ap R.y 
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2 my St 
^ap Y 
Liliacece. 
4 mr.ap 
4 mr.ap R 
4 mr.ap Y 
\\ ap.my Br 
^ ap.my Br 
1 ap Br.p Caucasus 
1 my Br.p' Crimea 
la Pu Crimea 
llmy.jn D.P 
1 my Y.Pu Pyrenees 1596. 
l|my D.P Caucasus 
1 ap.my Y Caucasus 1812. 
1 ap.my R Caucasus 1604. 
1 mr.my Pu Britain moi.p. 
f my Kamschat. 1759. 
Asphodelece. Sp. 7—20. 
10 ... W E. Indies 1640. 
2 ... W 1800. 
O s.l Eng. bot. 63 
O s.l 
O s.l Bot. reg. 204 
O r.m Bot. mag. 1135 
O r.m Bot. mag. 839 
O r.m Bot. mag. 1390 
O r.m Bot. mag. 717 
O r.m Bot. reg. 127 
O r.m Bot. reg. 535 
1823. 
1605. 
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O CO 
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Bot. mag. 194 
Bot. mag. 1215 
Bot. mag. 1537 
Bot. mag. 962 
Bot. mag. 857 
Bot. mag. 952 
Bot. mag. 664 
Bot. mag. 1538 
Bot. mag. 853 
Eng. bot. 622 
Lin. tr. 10. 1. 11 
C p.l Blackw. t. 
C p.l 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
emblem of whiteness. This is a splendid genus, all the species of which are considered border flowers of great 
beauty. The more common sorts, species, and varieties, will thrive in any soil and situation, even under the 
shade of trees. The Canadian, Pomponian, and Philadelphian martagons are somewhat tender, and require 
the protection of ashes or rotten bark in winter. They are generally planted in borders, and need not be 
taken up oftener than every three or four years in September, and replanted six inches deep in the October 
following. None of the species can be safely transplanted after they have pushed leaves, without weakening 
them so as to prevent their flowering for several years. This remark, indeed, will apply to most bulbous 
rooted plants. Mr. Griffin, of South Lambeth, whose superior skill in the cultivation of bulbous plants is well 
known {Hort. Trans, iv. 544.), has been in the practice of keeping the lilium japonicum in pots, protected by a 
greenhouse or garden frame ; but he thinks the/ thrive best in the former. He places the bulb in twenty-four 
sized pots, not lower than an inch from the surface of the mould, which is composed of about two-thirds peat 
and one-third loam, the bottom of the pot being covered to the depth of two inches, with broken pieces of 
tile and the rough siftings of peat. The plants are kept entirely from frost, and are watered very little when 
in a dormant state, for they are then very impatient of wet in excess. The pots kept in the greenhouse are 
placed at a distance from the flue to prevent the mould drying quickly. {Hort. Trans, iv. 554.) Mr. S. Brooks 
grows in a brick-pit, which he can cover with mats or glasses at pleasure ; but he says, it " appears to be 
sufficiently hardy to endure our winters, as I have had a bed of them two years in the open ground without 
protection." [Hort. Trans, iv. 552.) 
772. Tulipa. Linnsus classed this among barbarous names. In Persian it is called thohlyban {Be Souza), 
whence undoubtedly its origin. In old Trench it is called tulipan. T. Gesntriana (Gesner, a Zurich botanist), 
may be called the king of florists' flowers, having been a prime object of attention with this class of cultivators 
for nearly three centuries. It appears to have been brought to Europe from Persia by way of Constantinople 
in 1559, and in a century afterwards to have become an object of considerable trade in the Netherlands, and 
a sort of mania among the growers, who bought and sold bulbs at prices amounting to 500/. stei-ling and 
upwards ; in those days an immense sum. The taste for tulips in England was at its greatest height about 
the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It afterwards declined, and gave 
way to a taste for rare plants from foreign countries. The tulip, however, is still extensively cultivated in 
Holland, from which all Europe is supplied with bulbs, and also to a considerable extent in England, both in 
tradesmen's gardens and in those of the opulent. It is, however, like the auricula, pink, &c. more the poor 
man's flower than that of the botanists or country gentleman. 
The varieties of the tulip are endless, and their names arbitrary, like those of all florists' flowers. One of 
the latest London catalogues (Mason's) enumerates six sorts of early blowing tulips ; four perroquets or middle 
blowers ; twenty-two double sorts ; and upwards of 600 single late sorts ; the last being the only sorts valued 
oy florists as competition flowers. These late sorts are classed by the Dutch as under : — 
Prime baguets (ia^we/^e, Fr., a rod or wand); very tall; fine cups with white bottoms, well broken with 
fine brown, and all from the same breeder. 
Baguets Rigaut's (supposed from Rigaud, some eminent florist's name, or rougeaude, red face) ; not quite 
so tall, but with strong stems, and very lai'ge well-formed cups, with white bottoms, well broken with fine 
brown, and all from the same breeder. 
