T Ü L IP A repens.
Creeping-rooted Tulip.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R I A M O N O G Y N I A .
Natural Order. T U L I P A C E Æ . K th . synops. 1 . p . 292.
T U L I P A . Perianthium G-phyllum, petaloideum, campanulatum ;
foliola erecta aut subpatentia, non nectarifera. Stamina 6, basi foliorum
inserta. Antheroe posticæ. Stylus o. Stigma sessile, trilobum, cristatum,
aut subcapitatum papillosum. Capsula oblonga, obtuse trigona. Semina
numerosa, plana.— F olia vaginantia, radicalia et caulina. Scapus uni-
florus, erectus aut subnutans, rarissime aphyllus.
Sectio I I . Bulbus stolonifero-repente, perianthii segmentis acuminatis,
exterioribus multo angustioribus et brevioribus, apice plus minusve pilosis.
T. repens, caule unifloro glabro bifoliato basi procumbente : foliis caulinis
amplexicaulibus oblongo-linearibus acutis canaliculatis subtus carinatis :
radicalibus longe petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis basi et apice attenuatis,
llore erecto, perianthii segmentis apice omnibus subbarbatis exterioribus
duplo minoribus : 3 interioribus basi et supra dense ciliato-pilosis : e x terioribus
glabris, filamentis omnibus basi dense barbatis, stigmate breve
trilobo, lobis glanduloso-pustulosis.
Tulipa repens. Fisch. Mss. Swt. hort. brit. edit. 2. p . 536. excluding
syn. T. Biebersteiniana. Schult. syst. v. 7. p . 582.
Bulbs about the size of a Chestnut, clothed with a brown
shelly bark, keeled on one side and ending in a sharp point,
about the colour and consistence of a Chestnut shell, opening
on one side so as to show the white bulb inside : producing
numerous stolones, which run in all directions, and throw
off fresh bulbs at intervals, extending several yards in three
or four years, if planted in light ground. Badicle leaves
none at the bottom of the flower-stem, in those that we
examined when in flower, but one on those that produced
no flower, which is also broader than those on the flower-
stem, and produced on a long slender footstalk, proceeding
from the inner side of the bulb from the base, only supported
by the hard shell that covers it ; from the base of
the leaf proceeds the stolone for producing another bulb.
Boot-leaf, footstalk and all, in my specimen a foot, and
half an inch in length, oblongly lanceolate, acute, tapering
a long way towards the base, and longitudinally striate
with numerous lines, somewhat glaucous ; about three-
fourths of an inch broad in the broadest part. Petiole slender,
under and above the ground four inches in length.
Scape bent, and procumbent at the base when in flower,
but before flowering more or less erect : ascending, cylindrical,
smooth, two-leaved, from the base of the root to the
flower in my specimens a foot and four inches in length.
Leaves clasping the stem, oblongly-linear, acute, channelled,
keeled underneath, tapering to the point, and
keeled at the back. Flower of a bright yellow, erect when
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