TU'LIPA PER'SICA. 
PERSIAN TULIP. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
liliacea;. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduction. 
Persia. 
1 foot. 
May, June. 
Bulb. 
Uncertain. 
No. 1098. 
The Persian name Tulipan, seems to have been 
applied indiscriminately, in that country, to a tur- 
ban and a tulip, hut we are not told which claims 
the priority of its use. The common Tulip of our 
gardens — the Tulipa Gesneriana, a native of Persia, 
brought its vernacular name with it, and this it has 
been permitted to retain. 
The species of Tulip which we now publish, was 
received from the Birmingham Horticultural Soci- 
ety ’sTrarden, under the name here adopted. We 
have no precise information respecting its history, 
nor does the plant appear to be much known. It 
may have been imported, as several species were, 
a few years ago, by the Apothecaries’ Company, 
as Colchicum bulbs, for medicinal purposes. Sweet 
mentions that the true Tulipa Oculus Solis, or 
Sun’s-eye Tulip, was so imported, and also the 
species Bonarota and Strangulata. Every one 
knows that medicine owes much to botany ; and 
botany, on the other hand, has been not a little 
aided by medicine. 
Tulipa Persica is perfectly hardy, and occasion- 
ally makes offsets, which should he separated. 
