belween Frittleford and Sturminster Newton 1 Dr. Pulteney, in Bot. Guide. — 
Leicestershire; Near Leicester: Dr. Arnold. — Middlesex; “In Mawde 
Fields near Rislip Common, plentifully, where they have been observed near 
60 years:” Blackstone, in Specimen Botanicum, (1746), p. 23. F.nfield : 
Mr. Hudson, in Flora Anglica. Meadows at Totteridge : Rev. J. Davies, in 
Bot. Guide. — Norfolk ; In a field called the Seven Acres, and the adjoining 
ones, by the side of Mendham long lane, near Harleston, where it also varies 
with a white flower: Rev. H. Tilney. — Staffordshire ; In a meadow near 
Blymhill, plentifully : Mr. Dickenson, in Bot. Guide. Meadows on the right 
hand side of the road leading from Wolesely Bridge to Stafford : Dr. Wither- 
ing. — Suffolk; Meadows at Laxfield, near the Church: Mr. Davy, in Bot. 
Guide. Between Laxfield and Stirrup-street : Mr. Woodward, ibid. At 
Little Stonham, a troublesome weed : Mrs. Cobeold. Meadow at Hawsted : 
Sir T. G. Cullum, ibid. — Surrey ; Meadows near the Thames between Mort- 
lake and Kew : Mr. Hudson, and Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. — Warwickshire ; 
Wroxall Field : Mr. W. G. Perry, in Purton’s Midland Flora. 
Perennial. — Flowers in April and May. 
Root, a small, depressed, roundish bulb, throwing out numerous 
fibres from beneath. Stem from 6 to 12, or 1 8 inches high ; round, 
smooth, leafy, quite simple, drooping at the top. Leaves alternate, 
half embracing the stem, round on the under, and channelled on the 
upper side, pointed, somewhat glaucous. Flowers terminal, pendu- 
lous, regularly chequered with pale and dark purple, sometimes 
white. Petals oval, their points turned inwards. Nectary, a strap- 
shaped cavity at the base of each petal. Capsule obovate, blunt, 
6-furrowed, upright. 
It varies with white flowers, and sometimes with two flowers on 
a stem. Both these varieties, as well as others of different shades 
of purple, are common about Oxford. Dr. Withering observed 
the white flowered variety in great abundance in a meadow on the 
right of the road leading from Wolesely-bridge to Stafford, not a 
quarter of a mile from the bridge ; and Mr. W. G. Perry found 
the same variety in a meadow by the road-side opposite to Wroxall 
Abbey, Warwickshire. 
There are few plants that are greater favourites with the Horticulturist and 
the Florist than the various exotic species and varieties which compose the 
Lilia'ce-e. The plants of this Natural Order are all monocotyledonous 
(having only one seed-lobe), and mostly herbaceous, with scaly, or solid, bul- 
biferous (seldom fibrous) roots. Their leaves are spear-shaped, or heart- 
shaped, with parallel veins. The flowers are sometimes solitary and terminal, 
sometimes in simple spikes, or branched racemes, often large and handsome, 
and frequently variegated with the most lovely colours. The perian'thium 
(calyx and corolla confounded) is inferior, coloured, and regular, of 6 pieces 
(petals of Linnjeus), which occasionally cohere at the base, so as to form a 
tube ; these 6 pieces are disposed in two rows, three being external, and three 
internal ; the former are, by some Botanists, called sepals, the latter petals. 
The stamens are 6 in number, inserted into the pieces of the perian'thium. The 
ovary ( germen J has 3 cells, and 3 prominent ribs, each cell contains many 
ovules (unripe seeds). The style is simple or wanting; and the stigma is 
simple or 3-lobed. The fruit is a 3-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded capsule, 
with a loculicidal dehiscence, (i.e. the dissepiments, or partitions, are situated 
on the middle of the inner surface of the valves). The seeds are flat, and 
packed one upon the other in 1 or 2 rows ; they have a spongy, dilated, often 
winged integument ; their albumen is fleshy, and contains the embryo, the 
radical of which is turned towards the hilutn or scar. This order contains only 
two British Genera, namely, FritillaHiia and Tu'lipa. 
