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Anthericum Liliastrum. Savoy Anthe- 

 ricum, or St. Bruno's Lily. 



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C/a/} ai*/^ Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 

 Cor. 6-petala, patens. Cap/, ovata. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 

 ANTHERICUM Liliajirum foliis planis, fcapo fimpliciffimo, 



corollis campanulatis, ftaminibus declinatis. 



Linn. Syfi. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 330. 



Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 449. 

 HEMEROCALLIS floribus patulis fecundis. Hall. Hijl. n. 



1230. 

 PHALANGIUM magno flore. Bauh. Pin. 29. 

 PHALANGIUM Allobrogicum majus. Clu/. cur. app. alt. 

 PHALANGIUM Allobrogicum. The Savoye Spider-wort. 



Park. Par ad. p. 150. tab. 151. /. 1. 



Botanifts are divided in their opinions refpecting the genus of 

 this plant; Linnaeus confiders it as an Anthericum t Haller 

 and Miller make it an Hemerocallis. 



It is a native of Switzerland, where, Haller informs us, 

 it grows abundantly in the Alpine meadows, and even on the 

 fummits of the mountains; with us it flowers in May and June. 



It is a plant of great elegance, producing on an unbranched 

 Item about a foot and a half high, numerous flowers of a deli- 

 cate white colour, much fmaller but refembling in form thole 

 of the common white lily, poffeffing a confiderable degree 01 

 fragrance, their beauty is heightened by the rich orange colour 

 of their antherae ; unfortunately they are but of fhort duration. 



Miller defcribes two varieties of it differing merely in 

 fize. 



A loamy foil, a fituation moderately moift, with an eaftern 

 or weftern expofure, fuits this plant belt ; fo fituated, it will 

 increafe by its roots, though not very faft, and by parting 01 

 thefe in the autumn, it is ufually propagated. 



Parkinson defcribes and figures it in his Parad. c lerrejt- 

 obferving, that " divers allured by the beauty of its flowery 

 " had brought it into thefe parts." 



