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222 | ‘HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
3 inner ones, as is usual, channelled, with an involute 
«Margin; germ and stigma very dark brown, longer than _ % 
_ the stamina. Plowers commonly in 5’s. Flowering in 
. Has. In moist situations, on the margins of small 
eams and yallies, abundant, from Fort Mandan tothe = 
ountains. 5. philadelphicum. 6. canadense. 7. carolie 
nianum. Very nearly allied to ZL. superbum. Yhave only ~ 
seen it in the mountains of North Carolina, and with the 
stem 1-flowered; by cultivation, 1 am well assured, that it 
produces many wo 1 the stem ie proliferous stages, 
- and is then apparently L. superbum. 8. superbum. go taege” 
Of this beautiful g are 3 species in the south = 
of Europe, one of which extends to Siberia, 2in the Le- — 
vant, 1 in Kamschatka, 6 in Japan and 2 in China, of which 
\e L. tigrinum is the most splendid of the genus, and h. 
n, with others, cultivated by the Chinese from time — 
memorial. It is now also introduced into the garden of 
_ Mr. Landreth, near Philadelphia. . 
$25. FRITILLARLA. L. (Checquered Lily.) 
Corolia 6-petalled, campanulate with a necta-— 
riferous cavity above the claws. Stamina the 
length of the corolla. Capsule superior. Seeds 
5 fla . : . it 
Roots bulbous, bulbs solid, generally two, one upon 
-_ the other; flowers teyminal, solitary, naked, or alternated 
in a loose raceme, white or purplish, and sometimes 
checquered. : » ; 
Species. 1. F. lanceolata. Pursh. 2. *alba. Glau~ a 
cescent; leaves somewhat remote, all altern:te, oblong- ; 
linear, oblique and sessile, nearly flat and obtuse, under 
