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Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae. [2] [3] [4] Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, drooping tulip or ...
Fritillaria (fritillaries) is a genus of spring flowering herbaceous bulbous perennial plants in the lily family . The type species , Fritillaria meleagris , was first described in Europe in 1571, while other species from the Middle East and Asia were also introduced to Europe at that time.
"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
Common names include Pyrenean fritillary [3] and Pyrenean snake's-head. [4] It is a bulbous perennial growing to 45 cm (18 in). The pendent, bell-shaped flowers are borne in spring. They have recurved tepals [5] which are purple tinged with brown and yellow. [2] Like other species in this genus, notably F. meleagris, they are strongly chequered ...
Fritillaria meleagris L. Type species - snake's head fritillary, checkered daffodil, frog-cup, Guinea-hen flower, leper lily, - Eurasia from Britain to Altay Krai; Fritillaria meleagroides Patrin ex Schult.f. - Eurasia from Bulgaria to Xinjiang [4] Fritillaria messanensis Raf. - Greece, Italy, Balkans; Fritillaria michailovskyi Fomin - Turkey [5]
"The Snake" is a song written and first recorded by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963; it became a hit single for American singer Al Wilson in 1968. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The song tells a story similar to Aesop 's fable The Farmer and the Viper and the African American folktale "Mr. Snake and the Farmer".
Fritillaria gentneri, or Gentner's fritillary, is a rare species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, that is endemic to southwest Oregon and adjacent Siskiyou County, California, USA. Its habitat is dry, open woodlands and chaparral at 1,000–5,000 ft (300–1,520 m), where it blooms from March through July.
Tailchaser's Song is a fantasy novel by American writer Tad Williams.First released on November 21, 1985, it is Williams' first published work. [1] [2]The story focuses on a personified cat named Fritti Tailchaser, set in a world of other anthropomorphic animals who live in their natural environments but each have their own language, mythology, and culture.