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xt ALLOBROGIAN, 
HE Term Allobrogian will acquaint the 
k Gardener what Plant we lay before him 
-: in this Place, although under another 
generical Name. 
“It is indeed as fingular as beautiful; the old 
Writers have all refer’d it to wrong Genera ; 
and it has perplexed even thofe of the beft 
Judgment, who have  fince removed it into 
others. There is in its Afpect an Alliance and 
Affinity with feveral Plants to whofe Gents it 
q can by no means be referred; and there are. 
.. | great Differences in its Nature from the other 
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a Fig. I. 
Species of that to which it is now reduced: 
but the effential Characters, on which Science 
now founds thofe Diftinctions, connect it regu- 
/* —__Iarly with them. 
Such is the State of Botany: our Me- 
thods fhew themfelves in thefe. Inftances to be |. 
purely artificial, but the Difficulty is almoft 
jnfurmountable which lies in the Way to a 
natural Syftem. a oe 
All who have written, whether of Plants, or 
Flowers only, of late Time, have named this 
Ornament of our Gardens. They have in 
. general referred it to the Phalangiums, and 
3 - have diftinguifhed it by various Additions. C. 
Bavuine calls it Phalangium magno flore, and ie 
Baunine, Phalangium flore Lilla: the, great- 
- flower’d and Lilly-flower’d Philangium; the Ge- 
nerality of the reft have named it, from its 
Numb. LVII. 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfeétion. 
HEMEROCELLES. 
moft frequent Place of Growth, the Allcbrogian Ocob. 
Mountains in Savoy, the Allobrogian Phalangium. ~~ 
Dazscuamp calls it fimply, Phalangium, as con- 
fidering it as the true and original Plant of that ; 
Name; and from him others have named it, 
Phalangium antiquorum: Phalangium of the An- 
tients. : 
~ Linnvs, who found the géenerical Characters 
far different from the Phalangium Kind, removed 
it to the Hemerocallis, with the Marks of which 
its Parts perfeétly correfponds; and he adds 
as the fpecifick Dittinétion, Scapo fimplici, corollis 
Hexapetalis, campanulatis : fimple-ftalk’d Hemero-. 
callis, with companulated Flowers of fix Petals, 
This perfectly diftinguifhes it from the cammon 
Hemerocallis, as indeed does its whole Figure at | 
firft Sight. Cta8 : | 
The Root is compofed of numerous, long, 
thick, and white Strings ; hung with fmall Fibres. 
The Leaves are fix or thereabouts, long, nar- 
row, hollowed, rifing upright, and of a firm. | 
Structure; their Colour is a frefh green, they. — 
are fharp-pointed ; and at the Bafe, where they 
are naturally white, though fometimestinged redifh, — 
they embrace the Rudiment of the Stalk, and one 
| another. 
The Stalk is round, thick, juicy, upright, 
and fifteen Inches high; of a pale green, and 
fer with a few flight Films, whofe proper Office 
is to fupport and defend the F ootftalks of the 
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