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TULIPA praecox.
Early-flowering Tulip.
Natural Order. Tulipaceíe. K th . synops. 1. p . 292.
TU L IPA . Supra, fo l. 78.
T . prcecox, caule unifloro glabro, flore erecto, perianthii foliolis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis apice barbatis ; interioribus muí-
to minoribus, filamentis basi dilatatis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis
canaliculato-undulatis margine ciliatis, bulbo lanato.
Tulipa prtecox. Tenore Synops. nov. plant, qua in Prodromo
Flora Neapolitans, ann. 1811-13 edito, descrihuntur. p. 40.
n. 48. Catalogas plant, hort. reg. neap. ann. 1813. p. 108.
Spreng. syst. veg. v. 2. p . 63.
Bulb surrounded vrith long dense wool, outside of
which is a thin brown shell Avhich nearly covers it.
Stem smooth, cylindrical, from a foot to 15 inches in
height, leafy. Leaves 4, in our specimens; lower ones
clasping the stem, ovately lanceolate, acute, more or
less undulate, clothed with a very short whitish pubescence,
the margins ciliate, with unequal woolly hairs:
upper leaves lanceolate, elongated to a taper point, the
margins rolled inwards, also pubescent and ciliate.
Scape smooth, slightly angular just below the flower.
Perianthium of 6 leaflets, which are ovately lanceolate
and taper-pointed, the points bearded; 3 outer ones
laro-er and longer than the inner ones, of an orangy red
insfde, with a faint stripe down the centre, and a large
greenish brown mark near the base, surrounded with
yellow ; 3 inner ones of a bright scarlet inside, and a
strong yellow mark down the centre, with a dark velvet
snot at the base, surrounded with yellow, two or 3 inequalities
in the centre of each. Stamens 6, erect, sur-
rounding the germen, and opposite to the leailets ot
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