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TULIPA gesneriana. 
Common Tulip. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA ; (nobis) * is 
Nat. ord. Taras Jussieu. gen. 48. 
LULIPA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 204. 
T. Pesneitana, caule unifloro, floribus erectis, ‘petalis obtusiusculis stamini- 
busque glabris, foliis lanceolatis. Marsch. Bieb. fl. taur.cauc. 1.271. - 
ulipa gesneriana. Lin.. sp. ‘pl. ed. 2.1. 438. Hort. Kew. 1.485. ed. 2. 2. 
249. Brot. fl. lusit; (in ‘hortis). Desfont. atl. 1. 293; (in hortis)i — 
Sowerby fl. lua. 5, 6, 11, 17. Nobis in Curtis's magaz. 1135. 
ulipa hortensis. Gaertn. sem. 1. 64. t. 17. Sig. 2. ate 
ulipa. Clus. hist. 187-148; passim. Park. par. 45-65; passim. Swert. 
Jloril. 8, 9, 10; passim. Hort. eyst. ord. 4, vern. passim. Tourn. inst. 
passim. Beckman beytr. zur gesch. der erfind. 1. 223. 2. 548. 
Tulipa turcarum. Gesn. in cordi hist. 213. - { 
Proles lateralis. Folia .trina ovato-lanceolata, subconvoluta. Caulis gla- 
er. Corolla erecta, lato-campanulata, laciniis obtusis. Filamenta equalia, 
glabra; germine prismatico-columnari. duplo breviora, antheras ada@quantia. 
_ “apitellum stigmatosum continuum, trifaridm trilobum; stigmata cristato- 
adnata, revoluta, canaliculata. Nobis in Curt. mag. fol. 1135. 
_ The first Flora, in which the. Common Tulip has been 
Meluded as one of the indigenous plants, is that of Cau- 
Casian Tartary by Mr. Marschall of Bieberstein; and the 
first Herbarium in this-country, known to contain a native 
Specimen, is that formed by the Chevalier Pallas, and now 
n the possession of Mr. Lambert. The species grows natu- 
‘ally on the borders of the Caspian Sea, and on the sides 
of the hills and in the plains of the country about Mount 
aucasus. 
The drawing of the present splendid variety was taken 
from a plant sent by Mrs. Liston, the Lady of the British 
mbassador at the Porte, to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 
ilne, of the Fulham nursery. 
It appears that this popular species was first brought 
from Constantinople to Vienna, about the middle of the 
Sixteenth century; and that it has since gradually found 
\ts way over the rest of Europe. From the varieties bred 
rom this species by the florists in Holland, arose the well- 
‘hown Tulipimania that towards the middle of the seven- 
