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FRITILLA'RIA* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Hexa'ndria, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Lilia'cete, Jussieu. — Lindley’s Synopsis, p. 
266 ; Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, p. $79. — 
Richard’s Elements of Botany, translated by W. Macgillivray, A. M. 
p. 403. — Tulipa'cEjE, De Candolle. 
Generic Character. Calyx none. Corolla (Perian'thium, 
see p. 33.) inferior, bell-shaped, spreading at the base, of 6 oblong 
parallel petals, each with a nectariferous cavity at the base on the 
inside, (fig. 1.) Filaments 6, (fig. 2.) awl-shaped, attached to the 
bottom of each petal, close to the style, shorter than the corolla. 
Anthers oblong, 4-cornered, upright, attached by the back. Germen 
(fig. 3.) superior, oblong, 3-sided (triangular), blunt. Style (fig. 3.) 
simple, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 3, oblong, spreading, 
downy on the upper side. Capsule oblong, blunt, with 3 lobes, 
3 cells, and 3 valves, connected by network, with central partitions. 
Seeds numerous, flat, crowded one above another in 2 rows ; their 
outer margin rounded. 
Distinguished from other genera in the same class and order by 
the naked, inferior, bell-shaped corolla of 6 petals, with a nectarifer- 
ous gland at the base of each. 
Only one species British. 
FRITILLA'RIA MELEA'GRlSf. Fritillary. Chequered 
Daffodil. Snake’s-head. 
Specific Character. All the leaves alternate; strap-spear- 
shaped, pointed. Stem single-flowered. Nectary strap-shaped. 
Points of the Petals turned inwards. 
English Botany, (by Sir J. E. Smith, and Mr. James Sowerby,) t. 622. — 
Curtis’s Flora l.ondinensis, t.20. — Hudson’s Flora Anglica, (2nded.) p. 144. — 
Smith’s Flora Britannica, v. i. p. 360. English Flora, v. ii. p. 139. — Wither- 
ing’s Botanical Arrangements, (7th ed.) v. ii. p.424. — JLindley’s Synopsis, 
p. 266. — Hooker’s British Flora, p. 158.— Sibthorp’s Flora Oxoniensis, p. 110. — 
Abbot’s Flora Bedfordiensis, p. 75. — Purton’s Midland Flora, v. iii. p. 31. — 
Relhan’s Flora Cantabrigiensis, (3rd ed.) p. 139.— Walker’s Flora of Oxford- 
shire, p. 92. — Fritilldria tessellcita, Gray’s Natural Arrangement of British 
Plants, v. ii. p. 174. — Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, v. i. p.289. 
f. 153. — Fritilldria variegdta, Johnson’s Gerarde, 149. 
Localities. — Moist meadows and pastures, principally in the southern parts 
of ENGLAND. — Oxfordshire; Abundant in Magdalen College Meadow, 
and Cowley Meadows near Oxford, both the purple and the white varieties. 
W. B. — Berkshire; Meadows between Kennington and Oxford. W. B. 
Meadows about Burghfield Bridge, near Reading : Mr. Faruon, in Turner 
and Dillwyn’s Botanist’s Guide. — Bedfordshire; At Bromham : Rev. C. 
Abbot, in Flora Bedfordiensis. — Buckinghamshire ; Peat-field near Dorney : 
Mr. Gotobed. — Cambridgeshire; In some closes at Westhoe, near Linton : 
Rev. R. Relhan, in Flora Cantabrigiensis. — Cumberland; About Keswick: 
Mr. Hutton, in Botanist’s Guide. — Dorsetshire ; In the wood on the left hand 
Fig. 1. A Petal, to show the Nectary. — Fig. 2. Stamens. — Fig. 3. Germen, 
Style, and Stigma. 
* From fritillus, a dice-box ; which the form of the corolla may be sup- 
posed to resemble. Withering. — “ Movet arma fritillo.” Juvenal. 
t From its chequered appearance, not uniike that of a chess-board. 
