I like the meleagris's folk name of Sulky Ladies - it exactly suits their teenage self-consciousness.

The common snake's head fritillaria, F meleagris, has made itself at home at the lower end of the Spring Garden, which floods regularly.

Around the pond, I planted loads of Fritillaria meleagris, and every year, something pulls the heads off just as they come into full bloom.

8, before noon, and about this time Major Purviance shot at a large wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), knocking it off a bank into the water.