NAT. ORDER. 
Liliacece. 
LILIUM CANDIDUM. COMMON WHITE LILY. 
Class VI. Hexandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Corolla, six-petaled, bell-shaped ; with a longitudinal, 
nectarious line. Capsules, the valves connected by cancella- 
ted hair. 
8pe Char. Leaves, scattered. Corolla, bell-shaped, smooth 
within. 
The root is a large bulb, from which proceed several succu- 
lent fibres ; the ste7n is firm, round, upright, simple, and usually 
grows about three feet in height; the leaves are numerous, long, 
ijarrow, pointed, smooth, without footstalks, and irregularly scat- 
tered over the stem ; the Jlowers are large, white, and terminate the 
stem in clusters, upon short peduncles ; it has no calyx ; the corolla 
is bell-shaped, consisting of six petals, which within are of a beau- 
tiful shining white, but without ridged, and of a less luminous white- 
ness ; the filaments are six, tapering, much shorter than the corolla, 
upon which are placed, transversely, large orange-colored anthers ; 
the style is longer than the filaments, and furnished with a fleshy, 
triangular stigma ; the germen becomes an oblong capsule, marked 
with six furrows, and divided into three cells, which contain many 
flattish seeds, of a semicircular form. It flowers in June and July. 
We may rank the White Lily among the very oldest inhabi- 
tants of the flower garden. In the time of Gerard it was very 
generally cultivated, and doubtless at a much earlier period. A 
plant possessing so much fragrance and beauty, and at the same 
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