ITILLARIA meleagris. C ommon F ritillarv.
FRITILLARIA Lin. Gen. PI. H exandria Monogynia.
Cor. 6. petala, campanulata, fupra ungues cavitate neftarifera. Slam.
longitudme corollæ.
Rail. Syn. Gen. 26• Herbæ radice bulbosa præditæ.
FRITILLARIA Meleagris foliis omnibus altérais, caule unifloro. Lin. Syfi. Fegetab. f . 260. Sb. PI.
p. 436. Fl. Sueeic. n. 283.
FRITILLARIA caule paucifloro foliis caulinis gramineis altérais. Haller, hiß. n. 1235.
FRITILLARIA Meleagris. Scopoli Fl. Carn. n. 405.
FRITILLARIA præcox purpurea variegata. Bauh, pin. 64.
FRITILLARIA vulgaris. Parkinfon. Parad. 40.
M: Bulbus magnitudiné nucis avellanæ, folidus,
albus, fubrotundus, in . plures feparabilis,
bulbo precedentis anni, marcido, rtigofo in
I theca quafi inclufus.
•IS fpithamæus et altior, ereöus, teres, fimplex,
1 lævis, glaucus, haud infrequenter purpuraf-
■ eens.
i caulina quatuor, aut quinque, alterna, femi-
1 amplexicaulia, fublinearia, inferae rotundata, ’
fuperne concava, fubtortuofa, gläuca.
Binfummitate caulis unicus, magnus, pendulus, ■
primum ovatb-pyramidalis, tum campanula- :
J tus. ' : :
ÎSnullusi . , :
.0LLA : Petala fex, ovato-oblonga, æqualia, al- ;
1 bo et purpureo pulchre teffelata, bafi gibbofa. :
• >• _ : 1AR1UM: fovea fiiblinearis, virefcens,'prope ba- <
fm cujufvis petali unde gibbi ex terni, fig. j . ;
|INA: Filam enta fex, fubulata, laevia, albida, :
germine duplo Iongiora ; A ntiieræ oblongæ, •
fubcomprefîæ, quadrifulcatæ, mucrone viref- <
cente j inftruâæ, demiflo polline duplo bre- S
; viores ; Pollen flavum. fig' .2. 3.
,'LUM: Germen trîgonum, viride ; S t y lu s 1 I teres» pubefeens, fuperne paululum incrafla- ^
I pis, trifidus, laciniis teretibus, divergentibus, 1
j interne et externe ad lentem canaliculatis ; j
tigmata lîmplicia, villofa. fig. 4. 5. 1
; R 0 0 T : a bulb about the fize of a hazel nut, folid,
» white, roundiih, divifible into feveral, inclo-
: by the withered, wrinkly bulb of the
: preceding year as in a cafe.
: STALK from half a foot to a foot in height, upright,'
round, fimple, glaucous, and not unfrequent-
ly purplifti. •
LEAVES of the ftalk about four or five in number
alternate, half embracing the ftalk, forne-
what linear, round on the under and hollow
on the upper fide, fomewhat twifted and
glaucous.
FLOWER : a fin.gle bloflom on the top of the ftalk,
large, pendulous, firft fomewhat pyramidal,
and afterwards bell-Ihaped. . '
CALYX wanting.
COROLLA : fix Petals, of an oblong ovate fhape
equal, beautifully checquer’d with purple and
white, and gibbous at the bale, fig, j .
N ECTARY a narrow cavity o f a greenifh colbur, near
the bale of each petal, whence the external
protuberances, fig. 1.
STAMINA: fix F ilaments, tapering, fmooth,-
whmlh, twice the-length of the germen: ;
A ntherje oblong, flattiih, with four groves
and a greenifh point at the top of each becoming
fhorter by one half on the fhedding
of the Pollen, which is of a yellow colour
Af- 2. >
P1STILLUM: Germen fcarce manifeftly three cor-'
ner’d , ‘ of a green colour; Style found,
downy, a little thicken'd above, divided into
three fegments, which are round, diverging
and mark’d both internally and externally
with a groove, vifible with a magnifier ; St ig m
a t a fimple, villous, fig. 4, 5.
I S S f r " I B thofe Plants wh!ch have beeli difeovered to he indigenous to this country 8 IHTT0NEJ ‘-S 1 “ ie,ve the firft wh° “ «>*»■ it us growing 1 AW °F ieU s
flä r.H v S Plent,fal!r. Whrch place it had been obferved in his time fir near fixtv
M a vervpN,ddf nbej $ aS ? rowl"S in.the Meadows betwixt Mortlake and Kew, alfo near Endfield- mT
P a wil/ftate ^ C a°id ln?6ni0US RotamR at Bwy 1 1 E dm u n d s , has feot me plants which he found’plen *
^ gI ;t was ^ Ä
propriety, conclude that it is a real native of 'this «land •
C f i n S m mjylvts et palußribus. viel. J a c o u in FI. M r . K j. H g B I r»'7peopk i‘ ?L are f ulIy bear iome refemblance to a fnake’s head, when« they are called
fffetfonbe ‘ uj 1 [ome places Snake's Heads, alfo checquer’d Dafcdil and falih.
^y'Wrde“ i i hey flower m. th® begi“ inf April, and are out of bloom in a ihdrt time.
l y s a t e to L ~ t h . P ’ “ " fUCh haS l0" S bee" cultivated ifl g w * » . , in which many