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back, are sometimes flashed with yellow in the middle and 

 spotted with a darker, and kind of fleshy^ or hairy, spot. 

 A channel runs down the middle of the alternate three, and 

 they all narrow towards the centre. The filaments are 

 almost the same colour as the flower, with darker anthers, 

 and so is the sturdy pistil with the deeper-coloured stigma. 

 It is much like the Tiger-Lily of our gardens. The leaves 

 are scattered and sessile, three or four inches long, 

 numerous, pointing in difl*erent directions, and sometimes 

 with a little bulb where they spring from the stem, in the 

 axil. Rocks and woody places in the mountains : Valais, 

 Neuchatel, Grisons, Tessin, Maderaner Thai, Aigueblanche 

 in Tarentaise. 



93. Liliastrum. 



{PLATE LIV.) 



Anthericum Liliastrum, Paradisia Liliastrum, or Czackia 

 Liliastrum album (Fig. 93) — for it goes by all these 

 names, and is also called, with us, St. Bruno's Lily. This 

 pretty and delicate plant is nevertheless tall and con- 

 spicuous, as its slender stalk rises some two feet high amid 

 the grass, and bears at the end, on short stalks with brac- 

 teas longer than themselves, from three to five large pure 



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