fo confpicuoufly edged as in that, the middle nerve of the 

 upper ones of which, as well as the edges, have minute cilia or 

 a glandular hair-like fringe, they alfo cover the ftpnj quite up 

 to the raceme, where they are fubverticillately crowded, clofely 

 adpreffed, and very fhort ; while in powponuim. the upper part 

 of the Item is rather naked and generally elongated into the 

 common peduncle of the raceme, the upper leaves are not fo 

 abruptly fhortened nor any ways adprefTed, nor has their middle 

 nerve any kind of pubefcence on the lower fide; befides the 

 glandular papillae, which in our plant are laminate, in chalce- 

 donicum are filiformly elongated ; that is the (irft. to make its 

 appearance from the ground in the fpring, but this is the firft 

 to expand its flowers. Redopte has miftaken the one for 

 the other in his Li'liacees, and figured chalcedonicum under 

 the name of pomponium. Lilium Mart agon is eafily diftin- 

 guifhed from both by its broader lanceolate leaves, which are 

 arranged in diflant whorls. 



A native of the Pyrenees and, according to Villars, of 

 Dauphiny, flowering in May and June. Hardy ; of molt 

 eafy culture. Varies with red and yellow flowers, with many 

 flowered and few flowered racemes, fome of which are fo 

 much contracted as to have the appearance of an umbel ; 

 fometimes it is only one or two- flowered. Generally propa- 

 gated by parting the fcaly bulbs. # Onc of the oldelt inhabitants 

 of our gardens. The Siberian plant of Gmelin, ufually added 

 to this as a fynonym, feems to us to be fpecifically diflincl, as 

 far as we can judge from a native fpecimen in the Bankfian 

 Herbarium. There are fpecimens of this plant with very 

 narrow leaves and thirteen or fourteen flowers, but we do not 

 think them fpecifically diftinft. G. 



