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Lilium Philadelpiiicum. Philadelphia** 



Lily. 



£&j/j #/7i Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Char a Her. 



Cor. 6-petala, campamilata: linea longitudinali ne&arifera. 

 Cap/, valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LILIUM philadelphicum foliis verticillatis floribus ereftis, co- 

 rolla campanulata : pctalis unguiculatis. Spec. Ft- 

 435. Ait. Hort. Ken. 1. p. 431. Miller Icon. Plant, 

 t. 165. /. 1. 



The Philadelphian Lily was firtl cultivated in this country 

 by Mr. Philip Miller, in the year 1757, who received 

 roots of it from Mr. John BartramoF Philadelphia, its firit 

 difcoverer. Its bulbs are fmall, white, and fcaly, and pro- 

 duce each a fmgle ' flem, fomewhat more than a foot hig»> 

 bearing at the fummit two flowers, and clothed with a to* 

 whorls of entire lanceolate leaves, which in our fpecimen were 

 longer and more reflexed than as defcribed and figured by 

 Mr. Miller. 



It flowers in July, but produces no ripe feed in this 

 country. 



The fame treatment is proper for this Lily as for t» e 

 Lilium Catrjl>£ei t figured in the Botanical Magazine, pi. 259- 



Miller fays, that both thefe are lefs hardy than forne o { 

 the other forts, and ought therefore to be proteQed in V5fl 

 fevere winters by covering the beds with old tan or coal- 

 afhes, to preferve them from the froft, and in the fpring l ^ lS 

 covering may be removed before the bulbs fhoot up. 



