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Lilium Pensylvanicum. Pensylvanian 



Lily. 



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 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Cbarafter. — Fid. N um - 800. 



Specific Charatlcr and Synonyms. 



LILIUM penfylvanicum caule fubunifloro, decurrenter fub- 

 alato-pentagono ; pedunculo lanato ; foliis fparfis 

 rariufculis, lanceolato-loratis, fupremis 4 — 5 verti- 

 cillatis floremque fubzequantibus ; corolla erefta, 

 turbinato-patente, extus floccofo-lanata ; laciniis 



intimis ovali-lanceolatis. G. Catrjb. Carol. 3. 



p. 8. tab. 8. 



The only mention of this fpecies, that we have been able to 

 find, is in the above-quoted work of Catesby, where we are 

 told that it is a native of Penfylvania, was cultivated here in 

 the garden of Mr. Peter Collin son, at Peckham, and 

 flowered in 1745. A fpecimen from the above collection is 

 depofited in the Bankfian Herbarium. The affinity with 

 Lilium bulbiferum is fo great that we can hardly bring our- 

 felves to confider it as fpecifically diftincl: ; the moft availing 

 differences we have been able to felecl are the following : in 

 our plant the Hem is generally one-flowered and ridged with 

 only five decurfent fubulate angles, in bulbiferum this is gene- 

 rally many-flowered and clofely befet with numerous angle- 

 like 



