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Lilium chalcedonicum. Chalcedonian 
Lily. 
Clafs and Order, ■ 
Hexandria Monogynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinal! neBarifera. 
Cap/, valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. 
Specific CharaEler and Synonyms. 
LILIUM chalcedonicum foliis fparfis lanceolatis, floribus re- 
flexis, corollis revolutis. Linn. Syfi. V °getab. p. 324* 
LILIUM byzantium miniatum. Bauh. Pin. 78. 
The Red Martagon of Condantinople. Park. Parad. p. 34 * 
This fpecies is bed known in the nurferies by the name of 
the Scarlet Martagon ; but as it is not the Martagon of Lin- 
naeus, to avoid confufion, it will be mod proper to adhere to 
the name which Linnaeus has given it. 
It is a native not only of Perfia, but of Hungary; Profef- 
for Jacquin, who has figured it in his mod excellent Flora 
Aufiriaca % defcribes it as growing betwixt Carniola and Carin- 
thia, and other parts of Hungary, but always on the tops of 
the larged mountains. 
It varies in the number of its flowers, from one to fix, and 
the colour in fome is found of a blood red. 
Authors differ in their ideas of its fmell : Jacquin de- 
fcribing it as difagreeable, while Scopoli compares it to 
that of an orange. 
It flowers in June and July ; and is propagated by offsets, 
which it produces pretty freely, and which will grow in almod 
any foil or fituation. 
The bed time for removing the roots is foon after the leaves 
are decayed, before they have begun to {hoot. 
