sequence,
that my botanical studies were--when I had attained the age of fifty--no
farther advanced than the reader will find them in the opening chapter of
this book.

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ANTHERICUM LILIASTRUM, SAVOY ANTHERICUM,
or ST. BRUNO'S LILY.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cor._ 6-petala, patens. _Caps._ ovata.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

ANTHERICUM _Liliastrum_ foliis planis, scapo simplicissimo, corollis
campanulatis, staminibus declinatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.
Murr. p. 330._ _Ait. Kew. v. _I._ p. 449._

HEMEROCALLIS floribus patulis secundis. _Hall. Hist. n. 1230._

PHALANGIUM magno flore. _Bauh. Pin. 29._

PHALANGIUM Allobrogicum majus. _Clus. cur. app. alt._

PHALANGIUM Allobrogicum. The Savoye Spider-wort. _Park. Parad. p.
150. tab. 151. f. 1._

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Botanists are divided in their opinions respecting the genus of this
plant; LINNAEUS considers it as an _Anthericum_, HALLER and MILLER make
it an _Hemerocallis_.

It is a native of Switzerland, where, HALLER informs us it grows
abundantly in the Alpine meadows, and even on the summits of the
mountains; with us it flowers in May and June.

It is a plant of great elegance, producing on an unbranched stem about
a foot and a half high, numerous flowers of a delicate white colour,
much smaller but resembling in form those of the common white lily,
possessing a considerable degree of fragrance, their beauty is
heightened by the rich orange colour of their antherae; unfortunately
they are but of short duration.

MILLER describes two varieties of it differing merely in size.

A loamy soil, a situation moderately moist, with an eastern or western
exposure, suits this plant best; so situated, it will increase by its
roots, though not very fast, and by parting of these in the autumn, it
is usually propagated.

PARKINSON describes and figures it in his _Parad. Terrest._, observing
that "divers allured by the beauty of its flowers, had brought it into
these parts."

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Which said book was therefore undertaken, to put, if it might be, some
elements of the science of botany into a form more tenable by ordinary
h