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a , Flowers and. Curious Plants now in their Per fettion. 
i LATH BULBIFEROUS LILLY. 
Sept. “ww TIE Gardener is not undcquainted with 
the Beauty of the duldiferous Lilly, nor 
Pl. 54. with the fingular Method takent by Na- 
Fig. 1. ture for. its Propagation, whence it obtained that 
Name: this which we here propofe to him, pof- 
feffes that peculiar Quality iri a degree fuperior to 
the common Kind; and is diftinguifhed farther 
by its {trong Colour, and late flowering. 
The Student in Botany is to know that, as 
-— this is'no more than a feedling Variety of the 
common bulbiferous Lilly; fo that Plant in its 
moft ufual State is to be referred to the corh- 
mon Orange Lilly, being only an Accident of 
Nature in the Growth of that. Thus Varieties, 
before they are confidered under their feparate 
Parts, are to be reduced to the proper “2 
Species; and this is Botany: 
In this State wherein we defcribe the Plant, the 
- Dutch, to whofe Labours we owe it, call it unre 
bulbiferum ferotinum: the late bulbiferous Lilly; 1 
the more ufuial Form Authors name it Liliwm bul: 
-biferum latifolium , and in the original State with- 
out the Bulbs, Lilium purpuro-croceum. 
The Plant is one of thofe in which afford the 
Gardener great Room for his Operations; for 
there is fcarce any more fruitful in Varieties. — 
C. Bavuine, who takes the Lead among the 
Botanifts of the laft Age, mentions befide the 
broad, whjch is the common, a narrow leaved 
bulbiferous Lilly, a Dwarf, and a hoary Kind. 
Numb. LIV. 
He alfo enumerates as diftind Spécies of the Sent, 
Kind without Bulbs, a fmaller, and one with a ph i. 
double Flower. He has therefore from this oné 
Plant, the Orange Lilly, made eight; and too many 
have followed him: for nothing,» is fo teadily re- 
ceived as Error. . 
Linn aus refets all thefé to the one original 
Head, which he calls Lilium folius [parfis tirelils 
campanulatis ereftis intus feabris: the {cattered — 
leaved Lilly, with vii at upright Flowerss 
rough within. 
The Root is large, : bulbous, but compofed of 
numerous loofe Scales ; white and j juicy. Kit 
The Stalk is firm, thick, upright, a Yard hich, 
frequently a little flatted, ftriated; and ofa pale 
oreén, tinged vatioufly with yellow, brown or 
purple. a 
The Leaves ftand ineeiceslaely upon it, and.are 
‘numerous: they ate oblong, moderately broad, 
| undivided at the Edges, and fharp pointed; of 
| a deep green Colour, often tinged with brown, | 
and marked with {trong Ribs lengthwife. 
The Flowers are very large and beautiful ; 
they crown the Stalk two or more together, and - 
they are wide expanded, and of a deep Crimfon, 
-mixed with a Tinge of Orange: the rifing Spots 
on the Infide of the Petals are of a deep Blood 
Colour, | and there is a Richnefs in the whole 
Flower exceeding very much the other Orange 
Lillies, 
me : The 
