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Hyacinth ; with linear leaves, nodding spike, with the 
flowers reflected at the summit ; perennial ; flowers in 
May, and is very common in woods and hedges. 
Hyac. Orienialis , Garden Hyacinth, with many flow- 
ered raceme. This fine ornament of the garden and 
the parlour is a native of the vicinity of Aleppo and 
Bagdad, and of the coast of Barbary. It was cultivat- 
ed in England about the end of the 1 6th century ; and 
its numerous varieties, with white, red, blue, yellow, 
double, and semidouble flowers, have been objects of 
great attention among the Dutch florists. A single 
root of a rare variety, has brought from L. 2 00 to 
L.200 sterling. Two thousand varieties are enumerat- 
ed and named by the Harlem gardeners ; and whole 
acres in the vicinity of that city are occupied in the 
cultivation of those flowers. 
Licium. Gen. char.— —Cor. six-petaled, bell-shaped, 
with a longitudinal nectariferous line, petals channel- 
led at the base. 
Lil. Candidum 3 White Lily ; with leaves sparse or 
scattered, bell-shaped corolla, smooth within ; suppos- 
ed to be a native of the Levant, or of Palestine, and is 
now a very common but splendid ornament of almost 
every garden, where it varies with double flowers, 
spotted with purple, and leaves striped or edged with 
yellow. 
Lil, Bulhiferiim , Orange Lily ; with scattered leaves, 
erect, bell-shaped corolla, rough within. Native of 
Austria and Italy, but now one of the most common 
garden flowers. 
Lil. Chalcedonicum, Chalcedonian Lily, or Scarlet 
Martagon ; with lanceolate scattered leaves, flowers 
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