960 BROWNS LILY. 
— It gained, from the moment of its appearance, the suffrages of the adonists in horticulture， 
rare in those days, by the amplitude of its flowers, and by their agreeable odour. — Since tha 
time it seems almost entirely to have disappeared from our Gardens, at least those who state that they 
still org it, only shew us mean and meagre individuals 
The estion, and which we think specifically dissimilar from the preceding, has lately 
been Steeg through the trade by an English Florist named Brown; a name which was applied 
from gratitude to this new plant throughout France. 
Not having had an ers of seeing the Lilium Japonicum (verum) in Flower, we cannot pronounce 
de scientia et de visu, on the subjet of the specific differences which the two plants might V cue 
when they compared one with ze other. 一 But if we refer to the descriptions and figures given by ou 
predecessors, which nothing seems to warrant us in taxing with error, and descriptions which we Br 
fore adjoin , in leaving to our readers the easy task of commentaries, we can advance, not without some 
degree of certainty, that the Lilium Brownii has nothing in common with the Lilium Japonicum 
(rerum !) —In — to put our readers in the condition to judge, we at once place before them the 
text of Thunberg, the author who first made known that species to which he acted as Godfather. 
(See the latin text above: A.) 
Thirty years nn ems wrote in the Botanical Magazine (1813 t. 1891), and gave of this 
lily a very beautiful figure : 
em above ze Sue ext : 
. Poiret a nist , to Wis they are indebted for various volumes of the Encyclopédie nine 
dedi zn ie the ausit number of the Botanical Articles in the Dictionnaire des Sciences natu- 
relles; thus describes the same Lily in the last mentioned work (vol. 27. p. a) «Japan Lily. 一 
Lilium ee m Tauns. Flor. Jap. 133. Wup., spec. 2. p. 85; Lois, Herb. de PAm n. and v. 375. 
«The stem is cylindric, smooth, the thickness of the little finger, 3 or 4 feet Md garnished in 
its dE Se? AM ed green, glabrous, linear, lanceolated leaves. — In the individuals that 
e, we have only found one single terminal flower, but it may be possible 
that, when the SR "din have gained their full force, each stem will bear various flowers. However 
that may be, the flower of this species, is much sys than that of any other Lily of which we 
eg it is gs or 6 inches long and when open, nearly as broad. Its corolla is tubulous, and almost 
at its base, then spreading and campanulate, composed of six petals of a dull white in 
"e interior and reddish outside: the stamens have their subulate filaments shorter than the corolla, 
terminated by oval rounded anthers of a dark ve and almost brown. — This beautiful Lily is, as 
a 
country 18 years ago, and it is only during the last 3 years that it has found its way into the 
rdens of Paris. — It flowered there for the first time, in July, 1821, at Mr. Boursault and at Mr. Cels; 
as it is still > rare, they have not yet ventured to plant it in the open ground; it is planted » 
pots in bogearth, and placed in the orangery during winter. » 
We could still cite other descriptions, but they are less complete, and of no importance here; these 
various references may suflice to elucidate the question. — However that may be, we hope to see 
the true L. Japonicum in flower next year; the figure and ی و‎ of which we shall then submit 
to our Readers. We shall at present u. ourselves : the species under discussion. 
We are not aware that there had been given a figure he ridi "isi (sp. nova), and we feel 
happy to offer one our readers equally exact as case iiia with care under our own inspection. 
The Reader will immediately remark the difference as presented by the flowers there of, to those 
of the first named species; their dissimilar colour, the obl ied lanceolate and not rounded oval 
anthers, etc. — finally the flowers of our plant are almost entir ass whilst various Authors 
remark the agreeable perfume exhaled by those of the Lilium BER 
(See above, the latin detailed description of the L. Brownii. 
CULTURE. 
The Culture of the Zilium Brownii is, like that of the Zilium testaceum, of which 1 have spoken 
above, extremely simple. — It bears cité from my own experience, the Winter in the open air, 
without any eme — J again recommend the Leg ری‎ of Bulbous plants, and parti- 
