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bright green colour; petioles clasping, round, the outer dotted with 

 red, and tubular, to receive the inner, which is solid. Scape late- 

 ral, the length of the leaves, upright, smooth, semi-cylindrical. The 

 flowers from six to eight, in a raceme, nodding, white, and fragrant- 

 It is a native of Europe; flowering in May. Hence it is termed 

 May, and sometimes Conval Lily. 



There are varieties with narrower leaves, with broader leaves, 

 with double variegated flowers; with double reddish or red flowers; 

 with double white flowers. 



The second species has a twisted root, full of knot: on a transverse 

 section of it characters appear that give it the resemblance of a seal, 

 whence the name of Solomon's Seal. The stem is from a span to 

 near a foot in height, of a harder texture than the third species : the 

 leaves are simple, inclined, angular, twisted, sometimes three-edged 

 four inches long and one broad, oval-lanceolate, half embracing the 

 stem, glaucous underneath, frequently bending down on one side- 

 The flowers sweet-scented, generally solitary, but sometimes two, on 

 long axillary peduncles, much larger than in the third sort. The 

 berries are black. It is a native of the North of Europe. 



It varies with double flowers,. &c. 



The third has a round stem, from eighteen inches to two or three 

 feet high, erect and unbranched: leaves usually bent upwards, and 

 to one side, underneath glacous, five inches long and two broad; the 

 lower ones oval, the upper oval-lanceolate, half embracing the stem. 

 The flowers are several together (from two or three to seven or eight), 

 axillary, on branched compressed peduncles. The berries round, of 

 a blackish blue colour, purple and red. 



This is a larger plant than the second sort. It is a native of the 

 North of Europe. 



There are varieties with double flowers. 



The fourth sort has a perennial root, toothed: the stem is simple, 

 angular, striated, erect, eighteen inches high. The leaves narrower 

 than the other sorts, lanceolate, entire, smooth, three or four in a 

 whorl, three or four inches long, and from half an inch to an inch in 

 breadth, bright green, and glaucous beneath. The peduncles are 



