LILIUM CANADEN'SE. 
CANADIAN LILY. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIAS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
3 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1629. 
No. 112. 
Lilium, from the Greek leirion, a lily. The 
Greek leios, handsome, is supposed to have been 
the origin of leirion, as the name of an attractive 
eastern plant. Canadense, from Canada, that part 
of North America where it is indigenous. 
No tribe of flowers has excited greater interest than 
the magnificent assemblage that is usually compre- 
hended under the denomination of liliaceous plants. 
It should be observed, this not only includes such as 
are strictly called Lilies, or even those belonging to 
the same natural order, agreeably to prevailing sys- 
tems, but also many others, chiefly bulbous or tu- 
berous rooted, with flowers of a similar formation. 
When our Saviour said, “that even Solomon, in all 
his glory, was not arrayed like one of these,” he is 
nt>t supposed to have alluded to any plant we now call 
a Lily, but to the splendid Amaryllis lutea, a lilia- 
ceous one, with which the fields of Palestine, in the 
autumn are said, profusely to glitter. 
Its offset bulbs may, occasionally, be taken for in- 
crease, and the best period for their removal is soon 
after the leaves are dead. They should never be 
removed when in a growing state. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 243. 
