10 INTRODUCTION. 



to use the page above facsimile'd. Not knowing how far St. 

 Bruno's Lily might be connected with my own pet one, and 

 not having any sufficient book on Swiss botany, I take down 

 Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants, (a most useful book, as far 

 as any book in the present state of the science can be useful,) 

 and find, under the head of Anthericum, the Savoy Lily in- 

 deed, but only the following general information : " 809. 

 Anthericum. A name applied by the Greeks to the stem of 

 the asphodel, and not misapplied to this set of plants, which 

 in some sort resemble the asphodel. Plants with fleshy 

 leaves, and spikes of bright yellow flowers, easily cultivated if 

 kept dry." 



Hunting further, I find again my Savoy lily called a spider- 

 plant, under the article Hemerocallis, and the only informa- 

 tion which the book gives me under Hemerocallis, is that it 

 means 'beautiful day' lily ; and then, "This is an ornamental 

 genus of the easiest culture. The species are remarkable 

 among border flowers for their fine orange, yellow, or blue 

 flowers. The Hemerocallis ccerulea has been considered a 

 distinct genus by Mr. Salisbury, and called Saussurea." As 

 I correct this sheet for press, however, I find that the Heme- 

 rocallis is now to be called ' Funkia,' "in honour of Mr. Funk, 

 a Prussian apothecary." 



All this while, meantime, I have a suspicion that my pet 

 Savoy Lily is not, in existing classification, an Anthericum, 

 nor a Hemerocallis, but a Lilium. It is, in fact, simply a 

 Turk's cap which doesn't curl up. But on trying ( Lilium ' 

 in Loudon, I find no mention whatever of any wild branched 

 white lily. 



I then try the next word in my specimen page of Curtis ; 

 but there is no ' Phalangium ' at all in Loudon's index. And 

 now I have neither time nor mind for more search, but will 

 give, in due place, such account as I can of my own dwarf 

 branched lily, which I shall call St. Bruno's, as well as this 

 Liliastrum no offence to the saint, I hope. For it grows 

 very gloriously on the limestones of Savoy, presumably, there- 

 fore, at the Grande Chartreuse ; though I did not notice it 

 there, and made a very unmonkish use of it when I gathered 



