from a foot and a half to two feet high, about half an inch 

 broad; fpathe monophyllous, follicular, lanceolate-oblong; 

 ■pedicles of the umbel lax, recurved; corolla hexapetaloufly 

 paned, pendulous, glandularly thickened at its junction with 

 the fumiut of the germen, white x with a green ovate fpot 

 beneath the tip of each fegment, flightly fragrant when fmelled 

 to clolely ; filaments about the length of the anthers ; jiyle 

 rather longer than ftamens, generally marked with a green 

 ftain beneath the ftigma ; capfule obovate, largifh, even ; feeds 

 roundifh, black, fhining, feveral in each cell. Native of 

 Auftria, Hungary, Tufcany, the South of France, and, as it 

 is faid, of England likewife. Hardy ; blooms in May. G. 



CORRIGENDUM. 



No. 872. For " Li lium Pensylv a-nicum. Pensylvaniax 

 Lily." read " Lilium Dauricum. Siberian Lily." 



Infert the following Synonyms : 



LILIUM bulbif crura. Pallas. Herb, penes Bom. A- B. Lambert. 

 L. II. foliis anguftioribus (a.) flore miniato. Gmel. Sib.. 1. 4 1 * 

 L. angufiifoHum flore rubro fmgulari. Catejhy. Carol. 3. p> 8. 



t. 8. falfe ab ait ft ore pro Amerka indigena datum ; 



tabula a plant a in I lor to Londini fuburbano jlorida de- 

 jiimptafuit* 



Subfequent to our having in No. 872, on the authority oi 

 Catesby, ftated this fpecies to be a native of America; • 

 will be feen by our obfervations in Numbers 1082 and 1165* 

 that we had fufpecled the accuracy of that author as to this 

 point. We have now verified our fufpicion, and find that one 

 of our guefles as to its country was right. In Pallas s 

 Herbarium, at Mr. A. B, Lambert's, there are feveral very 

 perfect fpecimens of the fpecies, gathered in the eaftern parts 

 of Siberia. ' By thefe we fee that it has fupported half a century 

 of cultivation in our gardens, without any change in fize or 

 appearance* The corollas of the above fpecimens are aU 

 fpotted as in our figure. Q, 



