LIL'IUM TIGRI'NUM. 



TIGER-SPOTTED LILY. 

 Class. Order. 



HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNM. 



Natural Order. 

 L1LIACU. 



No. 53. 



Lily, from the Greek LEIRION. The derivation 

 and application of its trivial name are sufficiently 

 evident. 



We know of very few plants that excited more 

 general interest than did the Tiger Lily on its 

 introduction to this country. Every one heard of, 

 admired, and resolved on possessing 1 , this Chi- 

 nese beauty ; and in a very short time, from its 

 facility of propagation, the cottager and nobleman 

 boasted alike of its splendour in their borders. 

 Happily, our nature will not admit the continued 

 exertion of these strong feelings of delight, which 

 are generated by novelty; or, we should be un- 

 ceasingly carried about by ecstacies, and temperate 

 reason could no where build her throne. 



In a former number the resemblance of the bulb 

 and the bud was hinted at. Their utility, as re- 

 gards vegetation, is precisely the same ; for they 

 both constitute what Linneus calls the hybernacu- 

 lum, or the winter quarters, of the young plant. 

 Their principal difference exists in the situation 

 which they occupy ; and in the present, and a few 

 other plants, even this distinction is wanting. 



