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Lily; 2. L. Cateshai, Catesby's Liiy; 3. L. bidbiferum, Bulb-bearing 

 or Orange Lily; 4. L. Martagou, Purple Martagon Lily, or Turk's 

 Cap; 5. L. Pomponhmi, Poiuponiau Lily; 6. L. chalcedomcum, Scarlet 

 Martagon Lily; 7. L. si/pcrbtwi. Great Yellow Martagon Lily; 8. L. 

 Canadoisc, Canada Martagon Lily; 9- L. Camsdiutceme, Kamts- 

 chatka Lily; 10. L. Fhiladclphiciim, Pliiladelphian Martagon Lily. 



The lirst has a large bulb, fVoni which proceed several succulent 

 fibres: the stem stout, round, upright, usually about three feet in 

 height: the leaves numerous, long, narrow-pointed, smooth, sessile; 

 the flowers large and white, terminating the stem in a cluster on short 

 peduncles: ihc petals within of a beautiful shining while; on the 

 outside ridged and less luminous. It is a native of the Levant., 

 flowering in June and July. 



The principal varieties are; with striped flowers, or with blotched 

 ]iurple flowers, or with variegated striped leaves, or with yellow- 

 edged leaves, with double flowers, and with pendulous flowers. 



The first of these varieties is now become common ; but the pur- 

 ple stain giving the flower a dull colour, the common white is gene- 

 rally preferred: the second is chiefly valued for its appearance in 

 winter and spring; for the leaves coming out early in the autumn, 

 spreading themselves flat on the ground, and being finely edged with 

 a broad yellow band, make a pretty appearance during the winter 

 and spring months, as it flowers earlier than the plain sort: the third 

 is of little value, as the flowers never open well unless they are co- 

 vered with glasses, nor have they any of the rich odour of the com- 

 mon sort : the fourth came originally from Constantinople; the stalk 

 is much more slender; the leaves narrower and fewer in number; 

 the flowers not quite so large, and the petals more contracted at the 

 base; they always hang downwards; the stalks are sometimes very 

 broad and flat, appearing as if two or three were joined together: 

 when this happens, they sustain from sixty to one hundred flowers^ 

 and sometimes more; this however is merely accidental, as the same 

 root scarcely ever produces the same two years together. 



The second species is one of the least of the cultivated sorts, the 

 whole plant when in bloom being frequently little n5ore than a foot 



