PL end.ph. 
174. HO.Tulipa. 14.. LILIACEiE. 
Old chalk-pits ; perennial ; April. 
Stem upright, 12 in. high; leaves glaucous; flowers be- 
fore they open drooping, then become upright, sweet- 
scented, yellow. 
II. 111. FRITILLARIA. Lobel. Fritillary. 
Perigonium cupshape, 6-parted ; lobes flat at bottom, 
keeled, with a linear nectariferous pit on the inside ; stamens 
as long as the perigonium ; capsule 3-sided, blunt ; corculum 
not one-fourth so long as the perisperm. — Combus smooth, 
round, solid? one above the other; stem upright, from one 
side of the bulb, simple ; flower terminal, solitary, or on 
a loose raceme ; br acted none. 
Fritillaria tessellala . Chequered fritillary . 
Leaves all alternate, linear, channelled; stem 1 -flowered. 
Fritillaria variegata, Ger. era. 149. 
Fritillaria Meleagris, Lin. S. P. 436. 
Fritillaria tesselata, Salisb. Prod. 236. 
Fritillaria graminifolia, Stokes B. M. M. 232. 
Chequered Daffodil. Snakes-heads. Guinea-hen flower. 
Moist fields and meadows ; perennial ; April. 
Stem 18 in. high, upright, smooth, leafy; leaves rather 
acute ; flowers drooping ; fruit upright and much lengthened 
after flowering. 
j3. serotina. Flowers variegated, purple and black. 
y. multiflora. Stem 2 or 3-flowered. 
fr. alba. Flowers white. 
g. lutea. Flowers yellow. 
Fam. X. 15. ASPHODELEAE. Asphodelearum maxima 
pars , Brown. Liliacearum sectio, De Candolle. 
Asphodel i, Jussieu. 
Perigonium petaloid, 6-parted or 6-cut, regular, free; 
stamens 6, hypogynous, opposite to the lobes ; outer lobes 
sometimes dissimilar; ovary 1, free, 3-celled, many-seeded; 
style 1; stigma 1, not nicked; capsule 3-celled, 3-valved; 
partitions on the middle of the valves ; seeds roundish or 
angular, mostly in a double series, affixed to the central 
margin of the partitions ; spermodermis single, crustaceous, 
black, brittle ; corculum inclosed ; perisperm fleshy. — Herb 
bulbose ; leaves radical, sometimes cauline, sheathing, rib- 
bed ; ribs simple, parallel ; flowers bracteated or naked, 
terminal, solitary, racemose, or umbelled. 
