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Littum Canpipum. WhuiTtsE LILY. 
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~Clafs and Order, 
HEXANDRIA MonocGyYNIA. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cor. 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali neflarifera. 
Cap/. valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. 
Specific CharaGer and Synanyms. 
“LILIUM candidum foliis {parfis, corollis campanulatis, intus 
: glabris. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433. Syft. Vegetab. 
ed. 14. Murr. p. 324. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p- 429: 
LILIUM album flore ereéto et vulgare. Baub. Pin. 76. 
LILIUM album vulgare. -The ordinary White Lily. ‘Park. 
Parad. p. 39. t. 37. f. 4- 
—anieaigi 
_ We may rank the White Lily among the very oldeft inha- 
bitants of the flower-garden; in the time of Gerarp it was 
very generally cultivated, and doubtlefs at a much earlier 
- period; a plant of fuch ftatelinefs, fo fhewy, fo fragrant, and 
at the fame time fo much difpofed to increale, would of courle 
_ foon be found very generally in gardens, into which its intro- 
_ duétion would be accelerated on another account; it was 
regarded asa plant of great efficacy; among other extraordi- 
nary powers attributed to it, we are gravely told that it taketh 
away the wrinkles of the face. 
- Linnaus makes it a native of Paleftine and Syria; Mr. 
Aton of the Levant. 
Its bloffoms, which open early in- July, continue about = | 
three weeks, and when they go off leave the flower-garden 
greatly thinned of its inhabitants. 
Of the White Lily there are three principal varieties : 
1. With double flowers. 
2. With flowers blotched with purple. 
3- With ftriped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow. 
The two firft of thefe are to be efteemed merely as curiofities s : 
in the third the plant acquires an acceffion of beauty which it — 
has not originally ;*though many perfons objeét to ale — 
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