LIL'IUM TENUIFO'LIUM. 
FINE-LEAVED LILY. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACE^ 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Caucasus 
2 feet. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1820. 
No. 970. 
The Greek word leios, signifying handsome, 
may probably enough, have been the root of the 
generic name Lerion, and Lilium. 
The late professor Don w’ell obsened, in allud- 
ding to this plant, that “ In delicacy of foliage, 
brilliancy of flowers, and gracefulness of habit, 
the present is not surpassed by any others of this 
highly ornamental genus. It is a native of the 
vast steppes of Siberia, where it appears to be 
abundant, but it is never found to extend beyond 
the 55th degree of north latitude.” 
In the dark solitude of the unpenetrated wilder- 
ness — On Siberian steppes, or wider Indian plains 
— In the remotest wild, whether known to man or 
not, if the sun but loose the icy manacle, do 
flowers flourish, their seasons they observe, their 
beauties glow unseen and unprotected but by Him 
who bids them glitter. 
“Ye cheer and bless 
Our checker’d sojourn on this weaiy earth. 
Whose wildest, di’eariest spots to Flowers 
have given birth.” twaiiley. 
This bulb is completely hardy and requires no care. 
