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LILIUM POMPONIUM. 



Pomponian Lily. 



Hexandria. Monogynia. 



Class 6. Older 1. 



Linn. spec. 434. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Vide Lilium concolor. PI. 24. 



SPECIFIC character. 



Leaves scattered, awl-shaped. Flowers turned down. Corollas rolled 

 back. 



Root large, yellow, scaly, from which arises an upright stalk 

 about three feet in height, furnished from the base to nearly 

 the top with long narrow leaves having a longitudinal ridge 

 on their under side : they are of a deep green, and terminate 

 in acute points. The peduncle supports from five to nine 

 flowers, each on a short pedicel. The flowers are yellow, with 

 irregular-formed yellow spots almost approaching to lines; 

 they hang down, and the petals are rolled back. 



The genus Lilium contains many ornamental species re- 

 markable for the great diversity of their colours. The present 

 species, though possessing neither the multiplicity of thits nor 



