LIL'IUM SPECIO'SUM. 
Variety punctatum. 
SPOTTED-FLOV^EEED LILY. 
Class, Order. 
HE.YANDRIA. MONOGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Japan. 
3 feet. 
July & Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1835. 
No. 961. 
The words Lilium and Lily, it is far the most 
probable, are descended from the Greek leirion, 
a name founded on leios, signif^ng handsome. 
The Greeks, it is supposed, applied the name to 
some species of Amaiyllis. The Celtic word li, 
signifpng white, has been mentioned as the root 
of Lilium ; but we are less likely to have obtained 
the name of a plant from the Celts than the Greeks, 
although the language of the ancient Britons, ac- 
cording to Tacitus, was allied to the Celts. 
The several varieties of this veiy splendid Lily 
were introduced by Dr. Von Siehold, from Japan, 
to the gardens of Holland; whence they were soon 
afterwards sent to this countiT, and sold at extra- 
vagant prices. As these splendid flowers cannot 
be increased and brought to maturity vdth the same 
rapidity as the generality of fibrous-rooted plants, 
good bulbs are still scarce ; they are, however, worth 
purchasing, as the flowers will ever ranlt among 
the most beautiful of vegetable productions. 
The present plant has, in some gardens, been 
called a variety of Lilium lancifolium, it is, how- 
ever, one of the varieties of speciosum, and is 
