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ered by Dr. Boott on the Camel's Rump mountain, Vermont, and 

 by him designated by the foregoing name. — June. 



159. ORNITHOGALUM. 

 Orxithogalum umbellatuai. L. ^Vhite Bethlehem Star. 

 Corymb ievf flowered ; peduncles longer than the 

 bractes ; filaments subulate. 



Naturalized in moist grounds. Root bulbous. Leaves radical, 

 linear, channelled, smooth. Scape round, bearing six or eight 

 flowers with a membranous bracte at the base of each pedicel. 

 Petals white, greenish in the middle outside, anthers large, yel- 

 low. — May, June. 



160. LILIUM. 

 LiLiuM Canadense. L. Common yellow Lily. 



Leaves in whorls ; flowers terminal, drooping, 

 petals spreading. 



A great portion of our meadows are embellished with the 

 flowers of this lily in the first part of summer. Stem green, 

 varying in height from one to three feet, with lanceolate leaves 

 surrounding it in distant whorls. Flowers sometimes one, and 

 frequently three on a plant, bell shaped, pendulous, yellow, spot- 

 ted inside ; petals lanceolate, turned outward, but hardly reflex- 

 ed. — June, July. — Perennial. 



LiLiuM suPERBUM. L. Superb Lily. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, three nerved, glabrous, 

 lower ones whorled, twice as long as the internodes ; 

 npper ones scattered; flowers in a pyramidal raceme, 

 corollas reflexed. 



One of the most magnificent of our native plants. Stem erect, 

 straight, from three to six feet high, bearing a large pyramid of 

 orange colored flowers, amounting not unfrequently to thirty or 

 forty in number. In low grounds, rare, July. 



By cultivation in a rich soil, L. Canadense approaches in cha- 

 racter to this species. 



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