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surrounding it in distant whorls. Flowers sometimes one, and 

 frequently three on a plant, bell shaped, pendulous, yellow, spot- 

 ted inside ; petals lanceolate, turned outward, but hardly reflex- 

 ed. June. July. Perennial. 



LILIUM SUPERBUM. L. Superb Lily. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, three nerved, glabrous, 

 lower ones whorled, twice as long as the internodes; 

 upper ones scattered ; flowers in a pyramidal raceme, 

 corollas rerlexed. 



One of ibe most magnificent of our native plants. Stem erect, 

 straight, from three to six feet high, bearing a large pyramid of 

 orange coloured flowers, amounting not unfrequently to thirty or 

 forty in number. In low grounds, rare, July. 



By cultivation in a rich soil, L. Canadense approaches io cha- 

 racter to this species. 

 LILIUM PHILADELPHICUM. L. Common red Lily. 



Leaves in whorls ; flowers erect ; corolla bell 

 shaped, petals with claws. L. 



The red liiy is a less shewy, but equally beautiful species 

 with the first. It frequents a drier soil, and is commonly found 

 about the margins of fields, among bushes, &,c. Leaves whorled, 

 a few sometimes scattered. Flowers one, two, or three, upright, 

 of a dark vermillion colour, spotted. The petals are supported 

 on long claws, which gives the flower an open appearance. 

 June, Julv Perennial, 



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149- ACORUS. 



ACORUS CALAMUS. L. Sweet Flag. 



Summit of the stalk above the flowers very long 

 and leaf like. Sm. 



Sweet flag root is an officinal article in considerable estima- 

 tion. At times when the plant is not in flower, the aromatic 

 flavour of the root will readily distinguish it from the other spe- 

 cies of flag, a name indiscriminately applied here to plants with 

 sword shaped leaves, as Iris, Typha, &.c. When in flower, the 

 long, round, solitary spadix, projecting from the side of an ap- 

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