HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
165 
Star of Bethlehem. 
This plant is naturalized in our meadows, where it is ex- 
ceedingly troublesome to the farmers. Flowers white. Peren- 
nial. May. 
166. LILIUM. Gen. pL 558. {Liliacece.) 
Corolla 6-petalled, campanulate ; petals most- 
ly reflected, marked with a longitudinal 
nectariferous line. Stamina shorter than 
the style. Stigma undivided. Capsule su- 
perior, valves connected by cancellate hairs. 
Seeds flat. — J^utt. 
1. L. leaves verticillate, lanceolate-linear, stem phiiaddphi- 
sub-2-flowered, corolla erect, campanulate, 
spreading, petals lanceolate-unguiculate. — 
Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Mill. ic. 1. 165. f. 1. Bot. Mag. 519. 
Philadelphia Lily. 
A very elegant plant, easily known from the other species 
by the claws of the petals. Flowers red-orange. In woods on 
the Wissahickon, and on the botanic-garden-ground of the 
University of Pennsylvania. Rare. Perennial. July. 
£. L, leaves remote, verticillate, lanceolate, tliree- canadense. 
nerved, hirsute underneath by the nerves ^ pe- 
duncles termini)!, long, for the most part in 
three’s; corolla drooping, tiirbinate-campanu- 
late, recurved-spreading ; segments lanceolate. 
— Willd. and Fnrsh. 
Icon. Catesb. Car. 3. t. 11. 
Flowers yellowish-orange. A fine plant, two or three feet 
high. On the marshy shores of the Delaware, from the navy- 
yard to Gloucester-point, frequent. Perennial. July. 
3. L, leaves glabrous, lower ones verticillate, the superiwim. 
rest scattered ; flowers reflected, in a pyramidal 
raceme ; corolla revoIiite.~>S^]?. PL 
Icon. Trew. ehret. 2. t. 11. Bot. Mag. 936. 
