THE WHITE LILY. 
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Lotanical Name, Lilium candidam. — Class, Hexandria. 
Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, white .—Native place, 
Palestine and Europe. 
Sentiment. 
PUBITY AND BEAUTY. 
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ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
There is a tradition that the flowers once 
elected the Dily their queen, on account of 
her beauty, and, although she was sub¬ 
sequently deposed on account of the superior 
claims of the rose, yet the poets still sing her 
praises, as 
“ The palest, fairest child of youthful spring 
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