blackifh fpots ; filaments equal to />{/?//, twice fhorter tfnn 

 corolla, tabulate-filiform, from upright divergent, cLep-red; 

 anthers oblong-linear, incumbent ; pollen minium coloured ; 

 germen green, rather longer than the ftyle, fubclavately co- 

 lumnar, obtufely fulcate-hexagonal ; flylc thickifh, fubciavate, 

 trigonal-Rriate, round, as if compofed of three conjoined ; ter- 

 minating in a continuous, rather enlarged, three-knobbedly 

 obtufe, glandularly pubefcent, jligmatofe point. 



Native of China. Our drawing was made from Mr. Gre- 

 vi lle's collection at Paddingtori ; where it was received in 

 this country. A hardy greenhoufe plant ; flowering in June 

 and July. Scentlefs ; but very ornamental. 



While known to us only through the medium of the plate 

 in the Paradifus Londinenjis ; we believed it to be the fame 

 with our Li liu m penfy!vanicum y No. 872; fee our remarks 

 in No. 1082. From this we now find it to differ, in having a 

 ftem, which bcfides being far more robuft, is round and even, 

 and not decurrently ridged as in that ; with pedicles and 

 outfide of corolla devoid of the cottony- tomentofe pubefcence 

 fo confpicuous in the other; the ungues of the corolla are 

 alfo here more ftraightly and clofely convergent, while the 

 lamina are more revolutely and much farther deflected than 

 there ; the organs of fructification are proportionably fhorter, 

 and the germen is rather fhorter than the ftyle ; inftead of 

 being twice as long, as in penfylvanicum ; there are feveral other 

 minuter diftinftions, befides general appearance. 



We have Mill to afcertain the country to which penfylvanicum 

 belongs, and to fay in what it differs from bulbiferum, except 

 economy. It has now been cultivated in our gardens, at the 

 leaft, for fixty years, during which time it has maintained un- 

 changed its appearance and habits. Is very fhy of flowering, 

 never produces above two flowers and rarely more than one, 

 hardly ever a perfect piftil, but a profufion of offsets, which 

 never arrive to a greater fize than a fmall walnut ; the ftem to 

 us has the appearance of having been drawn up in a hotbed- 

 frame ; being always lax and feeble. Mr. Whitley, who 

 fit ft informed us he had it from America, upon farther recol- 

 lection, thinks it was given him for a Ruffian plant. Catesby, 

 whofe drawing was made from a plant in Collin son's garden, 

 moft probably gueffed it to be a Penfylvanian vegetable folely 

 from memory. In the Bankfian Herbarium there is a Lily 

 from that American ftate, different from any other yet publifhed, 

 but certainly not this, a fpecimen of which from Collin son's 

 garden is alio to be found there. Is it the variety //. foliis 

 angujioribiis, — («,) jlore miniato of the Lilium bulbiferum of 

 Gmelin's Flora fibirica ; and a Siberian plant ? Or is it from 

 China? We are pcrfuaded that it is not a native of America. G. 



