PHALAN'GIUM LILIA'GO. 
GRASS-LEAVED PH A L AN GI UM. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ASPHODELE®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in Duration. 
Cultivated 
S. Europe. 
1 foot. 
May, June. | Perennial. 
in 1596. 
No. 290. 
Phalangium from the Greek, phalaggion, a 
spider ; a name adopted from Dioscorides. Linneus 
objected to it, as properly belonging to an insect, 'but 
the French botanists having divided his genus An- 
tliericum, again restored it. The term, doubtless, 
originated in a fancied likeness between some parts 
of the plant and the insect; or from its supposed 
virtues as an antidote to the bite of venomous spiders ; 
therefore, is equally as admissible as many other 
names. Liliago, signifies little lily. 
In a former number we published the Anthericum 
lilia-striun, to which the present plant bears a strong 
resemblance, only that it is smaller in all its parts. 
They were formerly considered as more closely con- 
nected, being included in one genus, the Phalangium 
liliago, being then the Anthericum liliago. 
It is a border flower of long standing in English 
gardens, and though not of so gay an aspect as many 
others, still its slender imobtrusive foliage and delicate 
flowers, will not fail to recommend it to notice. 
It should be planted in a dry warm situation, though, 
when in flower, a little shade would much prolong the 
show of its unassuming blossoms. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 269. 
