LILIUM CANDIDUM. 
Tar Seconpary CHARACTERS. 
Litium. Perianth campanulate. Segments mostly recurved, 
each with a longitudinal groove within from the middle to the 
base. Stamens shorter than the style. Capsule sub-triangu- 
lar, the valves connected with latticed hairs. 
Corolla inferior, liliaceous, six-petalled. Petals with a longitudinal line from the 
middle to the base. Stamens shorter than the style. Stigma undivided. Capsule 
sub-triangular, with the valves connected by hairs crossing as in a sieve. 
Tue Speciric CHARACTERS. 
Litium canpipum. Leaves scattered, lanceolate, narrowed 
at the base. Flowers campanulate, smooth inside. 
jaws lanceolate, scattered, tapering to the base. Corolla bell-form, glabrous 
within. 
Tae ArtiriciaL CHARACTERS. 
Crass Hexanpria. Stamens six. Orper Monoeynta. 
Endogens. Ovary superior. Flowers not spadaceous, dis- 
tinct, equal, both petaloid. Ovary many-seeded. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The White Lily has always been ranked among the very 
oldest inhabitants of the pleasure or flower garden. In the 
time of Gerard in England, it was very generally cultivated, 
and doubtless at a much earlier period. A plant at once so 
stately, so showy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much 
disposed to increase, would of course soon be found of very 
general cultivation. There is also another reason why the 
plant is accelerated into notice, because, among other extra- 
ordinary powers anciently attributed to it, we are gravely 
told that it “taketh away the wrinkles of the face.” 
_ The plant is fragrant and beautiful. The stem is round, 
green, thick, firm, and very upright, about four feet high. 
The leaves are numerous at the bottom, narrow and strap- 
shaped, with simple parallel veins, and these, together with 
the flower-stalks, shoot up from under-ground bulbs. The 
flower consists of six leafy portions similar in color, size, and 
form, and differing only in position. These envelop six sta- 
ae Bric within which is a _three-celled ovarium, containing a 
