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ie iMPERIAL MARTAGON, 
ee 4 (HIS | is a very elegant and noble Plant : 
known from the earlieft Time, and al- 
ways a Favourite with thofe who culti- 
vated Flowers. Its Beauty will continue to tre- 
commend ats and there is a Merit in its ealy Cul- 
ture. 
“All the Writers on Plants have aathed 3 it. 
latifolium, the broad-leav’d Martagon. Some, 
after Lozer, Hemerocallis; and the more Correét, 
Lilium Martagon, and Lilium floribus réflexis: the 
Martagon Lill » or the Lilly with reflex Flowers. 
Linna&vs joins it to the Lilly, with whofe 
Characters it perfectly agrees; and adds, as the 
DiftinGtion of the Species, foliis verticillatis, flori- 
bus reflexis, corollis revolutis : 
Lilly, with the Flower turn’d down, and their 
Petals bending up again. | 
The Root is roanenh, {mall, 
form’d of numerous pointed Scales. 
The Stalk is upright, firm, round, of a, purplifh 
Colour, and two Foot and a half high: toward 
yalow, and 
the Top it is a little hairy, and fometimes all the 
Way. 
The Leaves are fhort; broad, and of a “deep 
: green ; {mall at the Bafe, and vein’d with con{pi- 
~ cuous Ribs on the under Side. 
They grow in re- 
Numb, XXXIX. 
They» 
have call’d it in general, AMdartagon, and Martagon 
Verticillate - leav’d | 
gular Clufters, at certain Tittssicesy furrounding June. 
the Stalk in the Manner of Rays from a Star. 
This is call’d the verticillate Difpofition. Toward 
the Top there ftand a few loofe fcatter’d Leaves, 
which are longer and farrower than the others, 
The Flowers are very beautiful, they crown the 
Stalk in great. Numbers, and rife one above ano- 
ther, in a kind of pytamidal Form. ‘They are 
large, and of a pale Red, fpotted with a deeper, 
Blood-Red or Purple, in a various and ipgaeiat 
Manner, but very pleafing. : 
Each Flower has its feparate Footttalk, and 
hangs down; but every Petal turns up_ again. 
| The whole Head of thefe is very numerous, and 
their Smell a delicate and rofy Sweet. 
The Flower ftands naked on the F ootftalle: 
and is form’d of fix Petals, rifing from a {mall 
bell- fhap’d Bate : they are oblong, and have thick 
flefhy Points; and at the Bafe of each there runs 
a longitudinal Line, which is the Neétatium of 
the Plover! 
In the Centre rife fix F ilaments, on which are 
plac’d fo many oblong incumbent Buttons; and 
in the Midft of thefe is an oblong cylindric Ru- 
diment of 4 Seed-veffel, from which runs a finele 
oblong rer crown’d with a thick triangular 
Head.. ‘The Seed-veffel which follows, is oblong, 
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