LIL'IUM SUBER'BUM. 
SUPERB LILY. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
TULIPACE^. 
Native of 
Heijrht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
6 feet. 
June, Auf^. 
Perennial. 
in 1727. 
No. 637. 
For the meaning of the word Lilium see No. 29*2. 
This may truly be called the superb Lily, grow- 
ing as it sometimes does, to the height of eight 
feet, and bearing upwards of forty flowers at once. 
(Gard. Mag. 13, 347.) This observation, however, 
applies to its growth, as seen near Antwerp; in our 
own gardens its average height is from five to six 
feet; its flowers from ten to twenty in number; and 
even in this degree of luxuriance very few plants 
excel it in splendour. We shall be extremely glad 
to observe that attention is excited in favour of this 
genus of bulbous plants, on account of their splen- 
did and generally hardy character. 
In a physiological point of view the various dis- 
tinctions observable amongst bulbs is full of inter- 
est. Their numerous forms and uses, their adapta- 
tion to the circumstances under which they exist, 
and their gradual transition to stems on the one 
hand, and roots on the other, all tend to excite the 
contemplative mind to enquiry. We see a beauti- 
ful and infinite variety every where presented to us 
in the works of nature, and man seeks for primary 
causes of this exuberant effect; but if he forget 
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Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
