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high; in its native soil it is described a growing to the height of 

 two feet: the stalk is terminated by one upright flower: it is purple, 

 slender, upright, round, smooth with a slight glaucous bloom on it> 

 solid, stiffish: the root-leaves few, often only on the barren plant, on 

 long petioles: the stem-leaves are numerous, alternately scattered, 

 sessile, curved back, narrow-lanceolate, the upper ones gradually 

 more ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, blunt with a purple tip, even on 

 both sides, slenderly nerved, flat, a little fleshy, shrivelling : the 

 flower has no scent, but is said by Catesby, to be variously shaded 

 with red, orange, and lemon colours: it is remarked by Mr. Curtis, 

 that it varies considerably in the breadth of its petals, in their colour 

 and spots; and that it flowers usually in July or August, 



The third has' a subovate bulb in its native stale, consisting of 

 thick white loosely imbricate scales, pulling out a few thick fibres 

 from the bottom: the stem upright, a foot and half high, striated- 

 angular, smooth or slightly hairy, with numerous scattered leaves, 

 the upper ones spreading out horizontally, acute, quite entire, obso- 

 lelely hirsule, 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 without scent, red-orange within, pale-orange on the out- 

 side. 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 nar- 

 rower: 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 off 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. 



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