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| GREAT: WHITE “ASPHODEL 
a HE yelloee Afphodel we have deferibed in 
Augutt. Froth the Middle upwards, it is covered with Auoutt . 
a Spike of large and elegant Flowers. In the 
moft. perfect State of the Plant this fingle Spike 
férminates the Stalk; but fometimes it is divided 
into a kind of Head by the Partition of the Stalk 
into a Number of Branches. In either cafe the 
Flowers are the fame as well as the Stalk, Leaves, 
a preceding Number, a fpecious Sum- 
mer Plant; nor is this, though of a 
fimpler Colour, lefs elegant; The Gardener” has 
been long acquainted with it; and it is very 
worthy always to retain its Place in our Collec. 
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= Fig. I. 
The earlier Weer who. have defcribed it, 
call it Afphodelus albus ; 
into two Kinds, they call it Afphodelus ramofus 
albus, and Afpbodelus non ramofus albus: the white Rib of pale purple. 
and white Afphodel with a. fimple | 
Stem. » They alfo add the Term major, from its. 
branched , 
confiderable Size. 
“Linn avs ‘fejecting ‘thefe flicht "Deedes 
- from the Conftruction of fpecifick Diftindtions, 
reters the Plant in both States to one Kind, and 
~ he names it A/phodelus caule nudo foliis enfi iformibus 
carniatis levibus: naked ftalked Afphodel, with 
{mooth, hollowed, fword-like Leaves. 
The Root is compofed of many tuberous, 
roundifh, or oblong Parts; of an acrid unpleafant . 
Tafte, and hung a many Fibres, 
The Leaves are long and narrow, fharp point- | 
and og a tough {pung y Sub- 
ed, hollowed, 
of the common Star of Bethlebem ; 
Filaments, 
_and Root; wherefore they trified who from this 
and diftinguithing | the | 
_ Plant from an accidental Variation in the Growth | — 
made out a feparate Plant. 
‘The F lowers are of a pure milky hike on the 
Infide, but on the outer Part each Segment has a 
_ The Student recollets what we have. hewn of 
the green Rib along each Petal of the F lower 
_this purple‘one 
upon the Segment of the prefent Plant i is perfect- 
: ly of the fame Kind. 
The F lower has no Cup: it is p pompoled, of 
a. eee ASD 
2 axe tHe Bafe of ie Petal is a Hae ae com- 
‘ pofed of fix {mall Valves, which converge into 
et globular Form. From thefe Valves rife the 
fix in Number, and crowned with. 
oblong incumbent Buttons, which rife upwards. 
The Filaments are arched, and are alternately. 
q france. longer and fhorter. 
4 The Stalk is round, {mooth, naked, ae two The Rudiment of the Sood: veffel. is placed. ee 
7 Foot and a half high. within the Neéctarium. It is roundifh, and 
‘ Numb. XLVL 6.¥ fends 
