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ORD. XLVI. LILIACE. 
(From Lilium, the Liiy.) 
Plants of the Lily tribe, and those resembling it. 
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LILIUM CANDIDUM. COMMON WHITE LILY. 
SYNONYMA. Lilium album. Pharm. Edinb. Gerard Emac. 
p. 190. Raitt Hist. p. 1190. Lilium album vulgare. Park. 
Parad, 39. J. Bauh. Hist. ii. p. 685. 
# Lilium album flore erecto et vulgare. Bauh. Pin. p. 76. 
g Lilium album floribus dependentibus sive peregrinum.  Bauh. 
Pin. p. 76. Nodding-Flowered White Lily. 
Class Hexandria. € Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 410. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali 
nectarifera. Caps. valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. 
Sp. Ch. L. foliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis: intus glabris. 
THE root is a large bulb, from which proceed several succulent 
fibres: the stem is firm, round, upright, simple, and usually rises 
about three feet in height: the leaves are numerous, long, narrow, 
pointed, smooth, without footstalks, and irregularly scattered over 
the stem: the flowers are large, white, and terminate the stem in 
clusters upon short peduncles: it has no calyx: the corolla is bell- 
shaped, consisting of six petals, which within are of a beautiful 
shining white, but without ridged, and of a less luminous whiteness: 
the filaments are six, tapering, much shorter than the corolla, 
upon which are placed transversely large orange-coloured anthere: 
