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exposed to th.e emanations of Lily-flowers during the night. The Lily, observes 

 M. Richard, in the Dictionnaire Classique clHistoire Naturelle^ has been sung by 

 the poets of all ages as the emblem of virginal purity. They have represented 



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it to us as owing its origin to the falling to the earth of some drops of milk from 

 Juno's breast, at the moment when the goddess repelled Hercules, still a child, 

 who had profited from the sleep of the wife of Jupiter to nourish himself with 

 her milk. The s.cales of the bulb of the White Lily, boiled or roasted, have 



