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LILIUM CANDIDUM. 



COMMON WHITE LILY. 



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S TNO NT MA,. Lilium album. Fharnu Edinb. Gerard Emac, 



190. Rait H'ift,p, II OQ), Lilium album vulgare. F ark. Farad. 

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/5 Lilium album floribus dependentibus five peregrinum. Bauh, Fin 



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Nod ding-Flowered White Lily, 



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Cla/s Hexandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin, Gen, FlanL 410 



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Ef, Gen, Ch, Cor, 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nee 



tarifera. Gapf, valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. 



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L. foliis fparfis, corollis campanulatis : intus glabris. 



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THE root is a large bulb, from which proceed feveral fucculent 



res: the flem is firm, round, upright, fimple, and ufually rifes 

 about three feet in height : the leaves are numerous, long, narrow 

 pointed, fmooth, without footflalks, and irregularly fcattered over the 

 ftem : the flowers are large, white, and terminate the flem in cluflers 

 upon fhort peduncles : it has no calyx : the corolla is bell-fhaped, 

 confifting of fix petals, which within are of a beautiful fhining white, 

 but without ridged, and of a lefs luminous whitenefs : the filaments 

 are fix, tapering, much fhorter than the corolla, upon which are _ 

 placed tranfverfely large orange-coloured antherse : the flyle is longer 

 than the filaments, and furniflied with a flefhy triangular fligma : the 

 germen becomes an oblong capfule, marked with fix furrows, and 

 divided into three cells, which contain many flattifh feeds of a femi- 



circular form. 



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It flowers in June and July, 



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