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ing out horizontally, acute, quite entire, obso- 

 letely hirsute, a little rough to the touch, dark 

 green, slightly nerved, sessile, lanceolate-linear, 

 three or four inches long ; each, excepting the 

 lower, frequently producing a roundish and 

 shining pale-green bulb or two in the axil: the 

 peduncle terminating, round, thick, somewhat 

 villose; either solitary, or two, three or four 

 together, forming a sort of umbel ; some naked, 

 others having a bracte or two: the flower with- 

 out scent, red-orange within, pale-orange on 

 the outside. It is a native of Austria, &c. 



There are varieties with double flowers, with 

 variegated leaves, with smaller stems, and the 

 bulb^bearing fiery Lily, which seldom rises more 

 than half the height of the others : the leaves 

 are narrower : the flowers smaller, and of a 

 brighter flame-colour, few in number and more 

 erect ; they come out a month before those of 

 the common sort, and the stalks put out bulbs 

 at most of the axils, which, if taken oft' when 

 the stalks decay, and planted, produce plants. 



The sub-varieties are : the great broad-leafed, 

 the many-flowered, the small, and the hoary 

 bulb-bearing Lily. 



The fourth species rises with a strong stalk from 

 three to four feet high : the leaves are broad; the 

 flowers dark purple, with some spots of black; they 

 are produced in loose spikes, appear in June, and 

 have a disagreeable odour when near, but not so 

 offensive as the seventh sort: the bulb is, accord- 

 ing to Martyn, composed of lanceolate, yellow, 

 loose scales, with thick, long, whitish fibres at 

 bottom : the stem straight, round, shining, 

 from a foot and a half to four feet in height, at 

 the top of the bulb furnished with rooting 

 fibres in whorls, pale green at bottom, the rest 

 having black spots scattered over it, above and 

 below the leaves are scattered, but in the middle 

 they are in whorls ; lanceolate, acute, somewhat 

 nerved, quite entire, subpetioled ; the stem ter- 

 minates in a loose raceme, many-flowered, few- 

 flowered, or sometimes one-flowered only : the' 

 peduncles purple, dotted with black, with lan- 

 ceolate sharp bractes, two to the lower, and 

 one to the upper flowers : the petals purple or 

 pale, more or less spotted with black on both 

 sides, the three outer hirsute, with a raised line 

 along tlie middle. It is a native of the south of 

 Europe, See. 



It varies will) white flowers, with double 

 flowers, with red flowers and hairy stalks, and 

 with imperial divided stalks. 



The tilth species has a pretty large yellow 

 scalv root, from which arises an upright stalk 

 nearly three feet high, with long narrow leaves, 

 almost triangular, having a longitudinal ridge on 

 their under side ; they arc deep green, and ter- 

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minate in acute points ; the upper part of the 

 stalk divides into four or five peduncles, each 

 sustaining a single flower of a fine carmine co- 

 lour, with a few dark spots scattered over it; 

 they appear in July, and, when the season is not 

 hot, continue a considerable time in beauty. 

 It is a native of the Pyrenees, &c. 



It varies with double red flowers, with white 

 flowers, with double white flowers, with red spot- 

 ted flowers, with white spotted flowers, with yellow 

 flowers, with yellow spotted flowers, with early 

 scarlet flowers, and the Major Scarlet Pom pony. 



The sixth species is from three to four reet in 

 height ; the leaves are much broader than those 

 of the fifth sort, and appear as if they were 

 edged with white ; they are placed very closely 

 upon the stalks : the flowers are of a bright 

 scarlet, and seldom more than five or six in 

 number : it flowers late in July, and in cool 

 seasons continues in beauty great part of Au- 

 gust. It is remarked by Linnxus, that the ra- 

 ceme, before the flowers open, is scarcely curved 

 in, as in the fifth sort, and that the stem is 

 clothed with clustered leaves to the very top. 

 It is a native of the Levant. 



According to Mr. Curtis, it varies in the 

 number of flowers, from one to six, and the 

 colour in some is of a blood red : also with 

 deep scarlet flowers, with purple flowers, and 

 with large bunches of flowers. 



The seventh has a round stem, very smooth 

 and even, panicled at top, two feet high and 

 more ; the branches alternate, divaricating, up- 

 right, like the stem, reflex at top, flower-bear- 

 ing: the stem-leaves alternate, subpetioled,. 

 foFdcd together at the base, ovate-oblong, a- 

 cute, quite entire, smooth, five-nerved beneath, 

 spreading ; one flower at the end of each branch : 

 the corollas are large and handsome : the petals 

 oblong, acute, white with large purple spots 

 and smaller black ones from the middle to the 

 base : ncctareous keel bearded : according to 

 Catesbv the flowers grow alternately on long 

 footstalks, and are of an orange and lemon 

 colour, thick spotted with dark brown; but 

 Miller savs they are produced in form of a py- 

 ramid, and when the roots are strong there are 

 forty or fifty on a stalk, large, yellow with 

 dark spots, and make a fine appearance, but 

 smell so disagreeably, that few persons can en- 

 dure to be near them: they appear at the end of 

 June. It is a native of North America. 



The eighth species has oblong and large bulbs : 

 the stems from four to live feet high : the leaves 



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and pointed : the Bowers large, 



spotted with black, shaped like those of the 

 orange lily, and the petals not turned back so 

 much as m the other Martagons : they come out 



