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PLE: A.T. BO.D,Y 
April. 
—Outfide is a fine {trong green, and on the Infide 
purple, ftrip’d throughout with broad upright 
Bands of white: in this, as feated in a Canopy, 
appears the Club or Spadix; it is oblong, thick, © 
rounded, obtufe at the End, and varies in Co- 
lour from pale green to white, and to the moft 
‘perfect bloody purple. _ . 
This is all that is feen till the Scabbard is 
torn open: then appear the Parts of Fruétifica- 
tion. Iwo Rows of Glands are feen on the 
Midit of this Part of the Club; they are thick 
at the Bafe, and terminate in hairy Extremities ; 
and between thefe are fituated a Number of 
Buttons, but without Filaments, adhering to 
the Body of the Spadix: they are large and 
2 {quare. 
__ Each is follow’d by a roundith Berry, in which. where they ftand too clofe, be taken up; and 
Pl. 32. 
Fig. 3. 
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Round about the Bafe of the Spadix ftand nu- 
merous oval Bodies, tip’d with hairy Filaments : 
the firft nam’d Bodies were Neétaria, but thefe 
are the Rudiments of Fruit: thefe feather’d 
Tops are their Stigmata, and they have no Style. 
are many Seeds. i ) 
No Plant will more perplex the young Botanift 
with regard to its Clafs and Place in a regular 
Syftem. He is to be inform’d that Linn avs, 
from the Situation of the Buttons, places it 
among the Gynandria ; and from their Number in 
that Section, which contains the Polyandria. This 
and the Fig are Subjects for the Botanift to exa- 
mine with Attention, ane 
Culture of this Anum. 
We have faid that it is a‘Native of America, 
and that in various Degrees of Heat and Cold, 
but it is always found in the fame Soil: this is a 
mellow Earth, enrich’d by fallen Leaves and rot- 
ted Boughs of Trees, whofe Shade in fome Degree 
covers it. Thus we are to raife it, and it will 
attain all its natural Perfection. 
Let a Compoft be thus made: 
Mix equal Parts light Pafture Mould, Pond 
Mud, and Earth of an old Wood-Pile. Throw 
| them in a Heap, and let them lie fome Months. 
Let Seeds be fav’d in America, and fent over; 
and in the latter End of February let a Couple of 
Pots be fill’d with the Compoft: let the Seeds be 
| feattered over the Surface, and covered with a 
Quarter of an Inch of the fame Mould fifted over 
them, Let thefe be plung’d up to the Rim ina 
| Bark-Bed, and the Earth kept moift. — 
When the young Plants appear, let the weakeft, 
when the others are of a Size to remove, let 
each be planted in a fmall Pot of the fame Com- 
a ee a a es 
‘Let them be fhaded till they have taken Root, 
and then inur’d to the Air by Degrees. In Fune 
Jet them be taken entirely out, and a F ortnight. 
after planted in a warm Border, where there is 
fome Shade, fill’d with the Compoft. 
- Here they will ftand our Winters ; and after 
the firft Stock is thus rais’d they may be encreas’d 
by parting the Roots, which fhould be taken up 
for that Purpofe in Autumn, — 
3 DOTTED ACADIAN LILLY. 
We thall figure to the Gardener many finer Lil- 
lies than this little one; but it deferves his Notice ; 
there is a Delicacy in the whole Plant extremely 
pleafing ; and, when well manag’d, a Luftre and 
Variety in the Flowers, inferior to few. 
~ Thofe who have written of the American Plants, 
have almoft univerfally nam’d it ; and none under 
any but its proper Title. | 
Though inferior to the Generality of Species, 
it is fo much a Lilly in the F lower, that none could 
call it by any other Name. 
-» Morison calls it Lilium martagon canadenfe 
maculatum. 
BaRRELIER and Tournerort, Lilium angufti- 
folinm flore flavo maculis nigris diftino, 
Linnaeus, Lilium foliis verticillatis floribus re- 
Hlexis, corellis campanulatis : but the Flower droops 
fo little, that the Word reflex fays more than it 
fhould. | | | 
The Root is of an oval F orm, covered with 
white Scales of a thin Subftance, and compos’d 
of thicker Parts of the fame F orm. | 
The Stalk is flender, brown, upright, and 
glofly ; very weak, but a Foot in Height. 
The Leaves ftand at fmall Diftances, about - 
five naturally in a Place, furrounding the Stalk, 
and rifing obliquely upwards; but between thefe 
Clufters there are ufually fome fcatter’d ones plac’d 
fingly and irregularly. They have no Footttalks 5 
they are oblong, moderately broad, and of a 
dufky green, rib’d lengthway with pale Ribs; 
pointed at the Ends, and undivided at the 
Edges. | | 
At the Top of the Stalk is plac’d a fingle: 
Flower, large and elegant. The Tenderne& of 
The Petals are fix; they are oblong, broad, 
rib’d at the Back, and hollow’d each Way; and 
are fo difpos’d, widening from the Bafe, that the. 
Flower is Bell-fhap’d, rounded, and {malleft at 
the Bafe, wider to the Mouth, and the Points of 
the Petals are thick and turn’d back alone the 
lower 
April. 
