M/ At call of early spring LILY OF THE BARREN. ‘y 
\ by oe ane neety Hse robed aN 
Mason. This delicately 1 7 fl not, peti been noticed rN 
f] by botanists. Having recently Eames er and spring in &yla! 
/ O, were my love yon Lilach fair, the balmy and beautiful hs nd of live ers, Flor ida, I made fre- fp i 
/ wr purple blossoms to the spring, quent excursions through its brightly-garnished, and highly F Py 
And I a bird to shelter there, rates med wilds. i i) 
When wearied on my little wing! Burns. is not my intention to attempt a description of the grand A ~R) 
set pre forests, the endless and ‘gorgeous display of flower- \ i Q “3 
The is genus have a permanent ig ae ing v vines, shrubs, and lofty trees i aie ll blossom, to be found t 
tubular, "bartered with four erect teeth. Corolla of one peta in that previ reed portion of our country. Wis v 
po i 2 st / 
calyx; limb in four deep, elliptic-oblong, sy 734 “To future bards these subjects I resign.” a <p 
My attention mus st be restricted, in this note, to the lowly 4 Fat 
a t flower in question, popularly and appropriately f it 
LILY named the Lily of the Barren, whole — of which w or. 
‘ *‘wasting their sweetne desert a 
LILIUM CANDIDUM. On one of oar excursions, in search of the source of the 
Ord Waukulla rive ey 
ects sca Sones aN eo that tein ptenton 1 can conceiv e,) after passing for some miles (EM 2 
‘at. Ord. Lin: t. Ord. Juss. through the stately forests of Magnolia grandiflora, <a = oe Aa AY 
{ CORONARIE. peaeeeeny regal coronals and wide-spr coding incense, = . before reach- N cy. ff 
Lilium, ag gin; (says _ the St. Marks, p of cmd Nite 6) 
oT he BiPR ; th 1 id bl 0) iim 
/ b ° 2 ay 
| a Lily, derived from Leto: 8, smooth, lso hands some, ay | é 
u because the plant is conspicuous for the Poanty of its flowers. : : A forsaken field rR z 
t has moreo N, from KRIMNON, the Greek With vervain planted, and white lilies round. Geo. b. 4. eos 
‘ust, owers seem in general to be q Sehd, ¢ 
Sputenels Ge oem hibits: sisetnes from the abundance of The whole surface of which was thickly strewn with these ; Vig 
their pollen. living pe _ s,—looking so pure, so meek, so lowly—dew: ems, gy he gy. 
insworth derives Lilium from the Greek LEerrron, or a so exquisite, and yet so seemin ngl y sad, in their ar solitude, Ging 3% > 
RION, definition, a lily. Lilium is adopted from Pliny thems: faire the only object that told of life o loveliness—as gs 2 . 
mela < — to suggest to the imagin , the Sprealiyeds of some igh Nae 
fi candido, (L.) to bleach, to make w love-lorn naiad of the neighboring stream, who, ~— been gan (WBS * 
Candidums (whit Lily) is said to be in indispu tably es “i hopelessly enamored of her princely hero, (who, by way of a ae Pex x 
erereiont for slightin love, might be supposed also i ewer * se 
ansformed in to the Magnolia, monarcl Of the woods 8,) had A y, — 
of the color of crocus, bi t Fano having ponte a some m. taken her y t rea. i 9 
upon earth, jo Rr lor from purple to white. a on her native e stream, on t the one Prone and her royal lover on ‘n4 i 
tells us, also, that ~ flower w was a ee favorite with Jun the other—be ng her virgin tude, OER RS 
and consecrated y heathen nati The delicate symmetry of its cobsbontcite (a diminutive of ce \\ 3 e 
All nations sales in poole the Lily the symbol of purity | Lilium candidum,) rising from a stem of about six inches in cy 
and modesty. height, its snowy petals paled by the grief of the heart “ii aS 
scores, Yas faint lingering tint of Ov e’s 0 wn hue, PP aagagons wwe a 
O, dress the Lily in its vest of law: 
ine the Ba 
Whiter, th an foam upon the He hha 
as the its grave. 
When every stain that earth had left is gone. Percival. 
5 Pare ars be the coin de nos 9 
heart in ini native heave: 
Percival, 
Ee from whieh proceeds 
city was 
In Hebrew 
i 
ae fe its diticate'e and graceful bells. 
42 
the Lil TEN. 
If we could presume that Virgil had ever seen this lowly 
and sweet flower, we might apply to it the following lines— 
The nymphs in baskets a 
For thee the loveliest lilies of the 
The lily whose sweet beauties seem, 
As if they must be sought. 
LILY OF THE VALLEY. 
CONVALLARIA. } 
Class 6.—HEXANDRIA. Order. —MONOGYNIA. Y 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. ? 
SARMENTACE®, ASPARAGI. \ 
m the Latin word convallis, a valley, or dale, ; 
enclosed on ae sides with hills -—Ain sworth._ 
America 
Flowers gener nerally white, oF variegated with green. A va: 
from J; Japan has viol et-colored flo 
broad, bright green | 
