NAT. ORDER. 



Lilacece. 



LIBIUM PHILADELPHICUM. ORANGE OR TIGER LILY. 



Class VI. Hexandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Corolla six-petaled, bell-shaped, with a long necta- 

 rious line. Capsules the valves connected by cancellated hair. 



Spe. Char. Leaves verticulate, linear-lanceolate. Nerves hairy be- 

 neath. ^SiJem one to two flowered. Co?-(3//'a erect, companuble, 

 spreading. Petals unquiculate. - • 



The ?'oot is large, knotty, and covered with numerous small 

 succulent fibres ; the stem is firm, round, upright, simple, and usually 

 rises from eighteen to thirty inches in height; the leaves are numer- 

 ous, long, narrow, pointed, smooth, without footstalks, and irregular- 

 ly scattered over the stem ; xhejlowers are large, of an orange yel- 

 low, spotted with dark red, and terminate the stem in clusters upon 

 short peduncles; it has no calyx; the corolla is bell-shaped, consist- 

 ing of six petals, which within are of a beautiful shining white, but 

 without ridged, and of a less luminous appearance; the filaments 

 are six tapering, much shorter than the corolla, upon which are 

 placed transversely large orange-colored anthers ; the style is longer 

 than the filaments, and furnished with a fleshy triangular stigma; 

 the germen becomes an oblong capsule, marked with six furrows, 

 and divided into three cells, each of which contain a number of flat- 

 ish, semicircular formed seeds. It flowers in June and July. 



The lily has now become one of the most common ornaments of 

 the flower garden ; the principal florists, both of this country and 

 England, have introduced its culture as a border plant, and it is now 



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