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' Litrum Carespar. Cartessy’s Liny. 
~Clafs and Order: | - 
- . Hexanpria Monocynia. 
-  Generie Charaéter. « os 
. Gor. 6-petala campanulata: linea longitudinali ne¢ftarifera. - 
_ Cap/. valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. . _ aoe 
—-, Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. - ay 
LILIUM Cafe/bzi caule unifloro, petalis ereétis unguiculatis. 
Linn, Syft. Nat. ed. 19. Gmel. p. 548. oe 
LILIUM Caie/bei foliis fparfis, bipedali, flore unico ere@o, | 
we corolla campanulata, petalis unguibus anguftis lon- 
3 gis. Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 123. a 
LILIUM Speéadile foliis fparfis; floribus folitariis ere@tiss 
: petalorum unguibus anguftis, alternis extus utrinque 
fulcatis, laminis revolutis. Salib. Ic. Stirp. rar. te 5+ 
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_ At the clofe of the year 1787, Mr. Rosert Squire, fent 
me from South-Carolina roots of the Lily here figured, many of 
which have fince flowered with various perfcns in thiskingdom. 
Carrssy in his Natural Hiftory of Carolina, gives a figure ~ 
and fhort account of it; Watrrer in his Flora Caroliniana 
defcribes it under the name of Lilium Catefbei; Mr. SALISBURY 
__ Inthe firft number of his very magnificent work, lately publifhed, ~ 
_ prefents us with a very highly finifhed likenefs of this lily, accom- — 
panied by a moft accurate and minute defcription of it, and judg- 
ing from fome appearances in Caressy’s figure, that it was not 
the Lilium Catcbei of Waxter, names it /pefabile ; but as we 
are aflured by Mr. Souiss, who affifted his friend WatTER: 
in his publication, that it was the lily figured by CarzsBy, we 
have continued the name given in honour of that Naturalift. 
Of the different Lilies cultivated in this country, this is to 
be numbered among the Jeaft, the whole plant when in bloom 
_ being frequently little more than a foot high; in its native 
foil it is deferibed as growing to the height of two feet; the 
ftalk is terminated by one upright flower, of the form and 
colour reprefented on the plate; we have obferved it to vary con- 
fiderably in the breadth of its petals, in their colour, and {pots. 
It flowers ufually in July and Auguft. : ee 
This plant may * raifed from feeds, or increafed by offsets, 
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which, however, aremot very plentifully produced, nor is th 
plant to. be made grow in perfeétion without great @re, t 
-Foots in particular are to be guarded againft froft; the 
_. and fituation may be the fame as recommended for the 
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