LIL'IUM BKONOSAE'TII. 
beonosart’s lily. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Japan. 
6 feet. 
September 
Perennial 
in 1843. 
No. 1019. 
It must not be inferred, because we use the 
name Lily for a certain class of plants, that the 
Greeks applied their name leieion, whence ours 
is derived, to distinguish the same flowers. What 
the “Lily of the fields,” of Holy Writ, was, it is 
now impossible to ascertain — probably an Amaryl- 
lis, a species or two of which are natives of the 
fields of Palestine, and consequently would come 
under the immediate notice of our Saviour. 
We are indebted to the Messrs. Pope, of Hands- 
worth, for this specimen of Lily, which they 
received in 1843, from the continent, under the 
name here adopted ; it is not, however, certain 
that it is distinct from Lancifolium album ; but 
appears to be one of those “variations without a 
difference” which disgrace some of the continental 
nurseries. The adoption of new names to old 
plants, and the use of popular names to inferior 
varieties of such as Roses and florists’ flowers, 
have long been subjects of much complaint by 
respectable English nurserymen and amateurs. 
It is e.xceedingly handsome, and, doubtless, one 
of the collection brought from Japan, by Dr. 
