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them from the effect of too severe cold. The Persian 
variety, which, it is to be presumed, has less need of pro- 
tection of this kind, has, in lieu of wool, a quantity of coarse 
hairs, forming a protection much less dense than that 
which exists in the European kind. May it not hence 
be suspected, that Persia is indeed the native land of the 
Tulipa Oculus solis, and that the individuals found in the 
places above mentioned are mere outcasts of gardens ? 
This should be cultivated at the foot of a wall with 
a southern aspect, in a warm border, consisting of light, 
loamy soil. 
M. de Candolle remarks, that T. Oculus solis differs 
from T. suaveolens and from T. sylvestris, in not having 
hairs upon either its stem or its flowers; from T. Gesne- 
riana in its pointed petals; and from T. Clusiana in its 
much larger flower, the claw of which is at least as long 
as the anthers, and in the arrangement of its colours. 
J.L, 
