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Fritillaria (Including Rhinopetalum c This)
Including Rhinopetalum, &c. This genus is distributed over North temperate regions. To the species described on pp. 27-9, Vol. II., the following should now be added:
F. armena fusco-lutea (fuscous-yellow). fl. bright yellow inside, tinged coppery-brown outside, solitary, drooping, 5/8in. long. l. four to six, about 2in. long. h. 5in. to 6in. Smyrna, 1887.
F. bucharica (Buchara). fl. white, greenish or purplish at base; perianth segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, or rarely lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; raceme terminal, few or many-flowered. l. usually all alternate, ovate or lanceolate, the upper ones narrower. Stem erect, flexuous, 6in. to 18in. high. Buchara, 1884. (R. G. 1171.) F. contorta (twisted). fl. nodding, 1 1/2in. to 2in. long; perianth segments united (thus differing from all the other species). l. three or four, distant, lanceolate, somewhat fleshy. Origin unknown. 1886.
F. discolor (discoloured). fl. nine to twelve, light yellow, with a slight suspicion of green, 1 1/2in. to 2in. across; segments oblong-lanceolate, slightly reflexed; throat marked with a blood-red ring; bracts numerous. l. erect, sessile, sub-amplexicaul, broadly lanceolate, glaucous, fleshy, about 3in. long and 1in. broad, with a tinge of red up the midrib on the under-side. h. 10in. 1888.
F. imperialis inodora purpurea (scentless, purple). fl. dark crimson. Buchara, 1885. A handsome variety. (R. G. 1165.) F. Perryi (Perry's). fl. approaching those of F. recurva, but produced in greater profusion, and appearing a fortnight earlier. 1886. A fine garden hybrid between F. recurva and F. lanceolata.
F. Raddeana (Dr. Radde's). fl. greenish-yellow, shorter than the pedicels. l., floral ones recurved-spreading. Habit rather dwarfer than F. imperialis, which the plant otherwise resembles. Central Asia, 1887.
F. Sewerzowi bicolor (two-coloured). fl. light olive-green, having a brownish, V-shaped mark at the base of each segment. Alatau, 1885. A remarkable variety. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. i., p. 457; R. G. 1181.)