HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Tulipa, 
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fibres beneath, and increasing by off-sets. Stem from the side of the 
root, twelve to eighteen inches high, cylindrical, smooth, curved at the 
top into an elegant arch. Leaves three to five, short, grass-like, half-em¬ 
bracing the stem, alternate, distinct. Flowers pendulous. Fruit erect. 
Stem much lengthened after flowering. Petals oval, the three outer gib¬ 
bous at the base, the three inner flat, of a dull red, chequered with a 
deeper colour, without any mixture of green or yellow. Woodw. Nectary 
a fleshy glandular substance connecting the stamens to the petals. ( Petals 
indexed at their points. E.) 
Fritillary. Chequered Daffodil or Tulip. Snake’s-head, (from 
the blossom in an unexpanded state. E.) Guinea-hen-flower. Mea¬ 
dows and pastures. Maud Fields, near Rislip Common, Middlesex ; near 
Bury ; Enfield : and in the meadows between Mortlake and Kew. Hud¬ 
son. (One in particular is called Snake’s-head Meadow, from its abound¬ 
ing therein. E.) Between Laxfield and Stirrup-street, Suffolk. Mr. 
Woodward. In a meadow near Blymhill, Staffordshire, plentifully. 
Rev. S. Dickenson. Near Leicester. Dr. Arnold. (Abundant about Ox¬ 
ford ; in Magdalen College meadow. Baxter. Wroxall Field, Warwick¬ 
shire. Perry. E.) P. April—May.* 
Var. 2. FI. alb. White-flowered. 
In great abundance in a meadow on the right of the road leading from Wols- 
ley-bridge to Stafford, not a quarter of a mile from the bridge. 
(Roots of the common kind transplanted from Blymhill to the Larches pro¬ 
duced a singular variety, with stamens scarcely half the length of the 
blossom; leaves seven or eight; petals chocolate-coloured without, 
mottled with green and yellow within, not regularly chequered. E.) 
TU'LIPA.f Bloss. six petals ; bell-shaped: Style none : Caps. 
superior, three-celled. 
T. sylves'tris. Flower solitary, somewhat nutant: leaves spear- 
shaped : stamens hairy at the base: (summit triangular, blunt. 
E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— E. Bot. 63— Lob. Hist. 63. 2— ib. Ic. 124. 2— Clus. 
Hist. 151. 2 —Ger. Em. 138. 1— Park. 1342. 2 —FI. Dan. 375. 
{Bulb egg-shaped, gibbous on one side. Stem perfectly simple, upright, 
cylindrical, smooth, one-flowered, leafy in the middle, tapering at the 
base, about a foot high. Leaves alternate, embracing the stem, spear- 
shaped, sharp-pointed, keeled, rather glaucous, a span long. E.) Bios- 
som large, yellow, sweet-scented. Petals spear-shaped, acute; outer 
ones greenish, with one or two transverse wrinkles at the base; inner 
ones dull yellow, with a green keel, and the edges hairy towards the 
bottom. Filaments very slender at the base, thicker just above, and sur¬ 
rounded with a fringe of white hairs, under which is found honey. An¬ 
thers and pollen yellow. Summit blunt, neither compressed nor dilated. 
Linn. 
* (As an interesting spring flower it is well deserving the attention of the florist, often 
affords beautiful varieties, and may be readily propagated by offsets. E.) 
+ (From tulipan (a turban) ; the form of the blossom somewhat resembling that East¬ 
ern head-dress. E.) 
