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■to any particular plant. Some have, without any reafon, 

 taken for granted that the Garden Tuhp was meant ; but 

 that plant is not a native of Pale (line. 



The order of liliaceous plants is now receiving mod mag- 

 nificent illuUration at Paris, in a work cxprefsly deftined to 

 ftiat purpofe, by M. Redoute, of which iivc volumes in 

 folio have reached us. The figures are printed in colours, 

 in the modern French manner. The defcriptions are in 

 French. Many plants, not properly belonging to the fame 

 family, are adn-.itted into this publication, as a few of the 

 OrchiJe^, and Scitatn'meit, which, though they interfere with 

 its ollenfiblo defignation, certainly do not lelTen its value, 

 either as to beauty or utility. 



LILIACEOUS Plants, in CarJemng, all fucli as re- 

 femble thofe of the lily kind, in their Howers having fix 

 regular petals, in the form of a lily ; or three, or even one 

 petal deeply divided into fix fegments, afTuming a lily-flower 

 form : they have not, however, all flowers fo large as that 

 of the lily, fomc being confiderably fmaller ; and as the 

 common lily has no calyx, fo feveral of tlie liliaceous flowers 

 are alfo deftitute of a cup ; and others have cups, which are 

 principally of tliat fort called a fpathc. They may, there- 

 fore, be dillingulflicd into fuch as have cups and fuch as 

 have not. 



Thofe ■wll/) cups are all the different forts of the common 

 lily : the tulip, all the kinds ; fritillarv, and crown im- 

 perial ; hyacinth ; flar of Bethlehem ; baftard ftar of Beth- 

 leheih ; tuberofe ; afphodel ; fqui:l ; hcnierocallis, or day- 

 lily ; anthericum, or fpidtrwort ; aloe ; yucca, or Adam'* 

 needle ; gloriofa, or fiipcrb lily, &c. 



Thofe •with fpathes or cups are the crocus ; galanthus, or 

 common fnow-drap ; leucoium, or great fnow-drop ; daf- 

 fodil, narciffus, and jonquil ; crinum, or afphodel lily ; col- 

 chicum ; iris, or fiower-de-lucc ; hemanthus, or blood- 

 Hower ; gladiolus, or fuord-lily ; Virginia fpider-wort ; ama- 

 ryllis, including the Guernfey lily, belladonna lily, and Ja- 

 cobea lily, &c. ; pancraticum lily, &c. 



It may be noticed, that the greater part of thefe liliaceous 

 plants of both kinds are bulbous-rooted : fome, however, 

 iave tuberous, and fome fibrous roots ; and all of them are 

 perennial in root, but annual in tlie ftalk or Item. 



Thefe are all ornamental garden-flowers, and molt of them 

 fufficiently hardy to grow in the open ground ; though a 

 few are proper for the green-houfe and (love, at they require 

 proteftion. Sec thefe difterent genera. 



LILIAGO, in Botany. See ANTilERlcuM. 



LILIASTRUM, the beautiful St. Bruno's lily. See 

 Anthericum. 



LILIENDAL, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Nyland ; ij miles N.E. of Borga. N. lat. 

 60° Z7,\ E. long. 26 _; . 



LILIENTHAL, a town of the duchy of Bremen, 

 fituated on the river Worp ; 10 niilto N.N.E. of Bremen. 



LILIO-Asi'iiODELUs, in Botany See Chinum and He- 



MEROC.M.LIS. 



LilLlo-Fritillaria. See Fritillaria. 



Tu-UAO-Hyacinthus. See SciLl.A. 



L,lLlo-Narri/fut. See A.MAUYI.MS and PA^xnATIl'^r. 



LILIUM appears to be a name of rather obfcure 

 origin ; fome deduce it from the Greek ?.ei»iov, a lily, derived 

 from Xsio,-, fmooth, not rough, alfo hanilfome, becaufe the 

 plant is confpicuous for the beauty of its flowers. It has 

 moreover been called x^i>ov, from xfiuvr;, duf!, or pollen, be- 

 caufe the flowers feem in general to be fprinkled with a 

 powdery fubllance, from the abundance of their pollen. 

 Lltium ia adopted from Pliny and other Latin authors. 



Linn. Gen. 165. Schreb. 218. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 5.84, 

 Mart. Mill. Did. V. 3. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. 

 240. Tournef. t. 19J. Jufl". 49. Lamarck, llluftr. t. 246. 

 Gsrtn. t. 83. — Clafs and order, Hexandria Monogynia, 

 Nat. Ord Coronariir, Linn. Lilij, .Tufl". 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth none. Cor. bell-fliapcd, nar- 

 rower at the bafc ; petals fix, ereft, lying over each other, 

 obtufely carinatcd at their backs, more expanding and 

 broader upwards ; their tips obtufc, thick, retlexed. Nec- 

 tary a longitudinal line, tubular, forming a channel in each 

 petal from its bafe to the middle. Slam. Filaments fix, 

 awl-fliaped, ereft, (liorter than the corolla ; anthers oblong, 

 incumbent. Pfl. Gerinen fuperior, < blong, cylindrical, 

 marked with fix furrows; ilyle cylindrical, the length of 

 tho corolla ; fligma thiekifli, trianguhir. Peric. Capfule 

 oblong, fix-furrowed, hollow, triangular, and obtufe at 

 the top, of three cells and three valves ; the valves connected 

 by a netv\ork of fibres. Seeds numerous, incumbent in a 

 double order, flat, outwardly femicircular. 



Obf. The nedary, in fome fpecies, is bearded, in others 

 naked. In fome the petals are totally revolute, in others 

 not fo. 



EIT. Ch Corolla of fix petals, bell-fhapcd, each petal 

 marked with a longitudinal neCfary. Caplule with valves 

 connedled by a network of fibres. 



Examples of this beautiful and fragrant genus are tlie 

 following. The c 'lour of their flowers is either white, 

 yellow, or red. The fourteenth edition of I^inna;us's Syf- 

 inna VegelabiUiim comprifes ten fpecies. Willdenovv has 

 fixteen, though his firll, /,. cordifoliuni, belongs to another 

 genus, which Mr. Salilbury, in Tr. of Linn Soc. v. 8. 1 1^ 

 has propofed to call Suujfurea. (See Hilmkrocallls. ) 



L. candiclum. Common White Lily. Linn. Sp. PI. 43J. 

 Sm. Prod. Fl. Grxc v. i. 227. Curt. Mag 278. Re- 

 doute Liliac. t. 199. Woodv. Med. Bot t. 101. (L. al- 

 bum ; Rudb. Elyf. V. 2. 167.) — Leaves lanceolate, fcat- 

 tered, attenuated at the bafe. Corolla bell-fhaped, fmooth 

 on the infide. — This is the Kti»o» of Diofcondes, and K^i'vo 

 of the modern Greeks. Great doubts cxifted refpefting 

 the native habitat of this well knowm and elegant plant, till 

 Mr. Hawkins, the friend and companion of Dr. .Sibthorp, 

 found it growing wild in that truly ckiflical and celebrated 

 fpot, the vale of Tempe. It flowers early in the fummer, 

 and has been cultivated in our gardens from time imme- 

 morial. Root a large fcily bulb, from which proceed many 

 fucculcnt fibres. Stem firm, upright, limple, ufually rifing 

 to the heit^ht of about three feet. Leaves nnmnowi, long, 

 fmooth, feflile. Flotvers large, white, in a chiflcr at the 

 top of the ftem ; the petals are of a beautiful fliining white 

 on their infide, ridged, and not qnjte fo tranfparent or lu- 

 minous on their outlidc. 



Pliny and Ovid have each added their teflimony to the 

 general admiration in which this plant has been univerially 

 held. The former fays, LiUum Rofs nol/ilitate proximum 

 eji. The latter has thus poetically alcnbcd its origin to the 

 milk of Juno : 



" Dum puer Alcides Divx vagus ubera fuxit 

 Junonis, dulci prefla fapore luit ; 

 Aiiibrofiumque alto lac diltillavit Olympo 

 In terras fufum Lilia pulchra dedit." 



Both thefe flowers have furnidied ancient and modern poet* 

 with their (hare of metaphor ; either fingly 



" Vel mixta rubent ubi lilia multa 



Alba roia ; tales virgo dabat ore calores." 



N.\\. 1. xii. 63. 



The 



