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TU'LIPA* * 
Linnean Class and Order. Hexa'ndria, Monogy'nja. 
Natural Order. Lilia'cea^, Juss. — Lindl. Synop. p. 266 ; 
Introduct. to the Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 279. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 
403 . — Tulipa'cete, De Candolle. — Hemerocalli'bete, Dr. R. 
Brown. 
Gen. Char. Calyx none. Corolla f Perianthium , see p. 33.) 
inferior, bell-shaped, of 6 egg-shaped, concave, upright petals, 
without nectaries (honey-pores J at the base. Filaments 6, (fig. 1.) 
awl-shaped, flattish, upright, very short. Anthers oblong, four- 
cornered, upright, distant. Germen (fig. 2.) superior, large, ob- 
long, with 3 more or less blunt angles. Style none. Stigma either 
three-cornered (triangular) or three-lobed, permanent. Capsule 
triangular, with 3 intermediate furrows, 3 cells, and 3 valves, which 
are fringed at the edges, and have central partitions. Seeds numer- 
ous, flat, inversely egg-shaped, crowded one above another, in 
two rows. 
The naked, inferior, bell-shaped corolla, of 6 petals, which have 
no nectaries, the sessile stigma, and the flat seeds, will distinguish 
this from other genera in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
TU'LIPA SYLVE'STRIS. Wild Tulip. 
Spec. Char. Stem 1-flowered, a little drooping. Leaves spear- 
shaped. Stigma triangular, abrupt. Stamens hairy at the base. 
Engl. Bot. t. 63. — Hooker’s Flora Londinensis, t. 19. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 
361. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 140. — With. Bot. Arr. (7th ed.) v. ii. p.425. — Lindl. 
Syn. p. 266. — Hook. Br. FI. p. 159. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 173. — Abbot’s 
FI. Bedf. p. 75. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 171. v. iii. p. 351. — Hooker’s Flora 
Scotica, p. 101. — Walker’s Flora of Oxfordshire, p. 92. — Tulipa bononiensis, 
Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 138. 
Localities. — In old chalk-pits in some parts of ENGLAND, and in SCOT- 
LAND. — Not common. — Oxfordshire ; near Bullington, and by the side of 
the walk round Christ Church Meadow, Oxford : Dr. Williams, Regius Pro- 
fessor of Botany. — Berks ; Besselsleigh, near Oxford : Miss Hoskins. — Bed- 
fordshire ; Whipsnade, on the borders of Hertfordshire: Rev. D. Jenks, in 
FI. Bedf.— Dorsetshire ; In the hollow way, near the church at Melbury, near 
Shaftsbury : Dr. Pijlteney, in Bot. Guide. — Durham ; near Blackwell : Mr. 
Winch, in With. Bot. Arr. — Gloucestershire ; In Bitton meadows, opposite 
the church: Rev. H. T. Ellicombe, ibid. — Middlesex ; Top of Muswell 
Hill: Mr. J. Woods, jun. in With. Bot. Arr. — Norfolk; In old chalk-pits 
near Norwich: Mr. Rose, in Sm. FI. Brit. — Suffolk; Chalk-pit near St. 
Peter’s Barn, Risby Gate Street, Bury : Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart, in Bot. 
Guide. — Surrey ; At Wimbledon: Mr. W. Pampun, jun. Abundant near 
Leatherhead : Air. G. Penny, A. L. S. — Warwickshire ; About Allesley; 
and in meadows by the Bourne at Shustock : Rev. W. T. Bree, in Purt. Mid. 
FI. — Worcestershire ; Among the limestone quarries on Malvern Hilis : J. T. 
Goodman, in Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, v. iii. p. 161. — SCOT- 
LAND ; Near Hamilton and Brechin, and in an old quarry at Bennie Craig, 
Firth of Forth : Mr. J. T. Mackay, in Hook. Br. FL 
Perennial. — Flowers in April. 
Fig. 1. Stamens, Germen, and Stigma. — Fig. 2. Germen. — Fig. 3. Section 
of Germen. 
* From' loWmn, the Persian name for a turban, the shape and colour of the 
flower somewhat resembling that kind of Eastern head-dress. 
t See p. 1. 
