om
June to August, or September; is a small delicate plant, and easily
raised from cuttings.

[Illustration: No 277]

[Illustration: No 278]

[278]

LILIUM CANDIDUM. WHITE LILY.

_Class and Order._

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cor._ 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarifera.
_Caps._ valvulis pilo cancellato connexis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LILIUM _candidum_ foliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis, intus
glabris. _Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433._ _Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._
_Murr. p. 324._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 429._

LILIUM album flore erecto et vulgare. _Bauh. Pin. 76._

LILIUM album vulgare. The ordinary White Lily. _Park. Parad. p. 39.
t. 37. f. 4._

We may rank the White Lily among the very oldest inhabitants of the
flower-garden; in the time of GERARD it was very generally cultivated,
and doubtless at a much earlier period; a plant of such stateliness, so
shewy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much disposed to increase,
would of course soon be found very generally in gardens, into which its
introduction would be accelerated on another account; it was regarded as
a plant of great efficacy; among other extraordinary powers attributed
to it, we are gravely told that it taketh away the wrinkles of the face.

LINNAEUS makes it a native of Palestine and Syria; Mr. AITON of the
Levant.

Its blossoms, which open early in July, continue about three weeks, and
when they go off leave the flower-garden greatly thinned of its
inhabitants.

Of the White Lily there are three principal varieties:

1. With double flowers.
2. With flowers blotched with purple.
3. With striped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow.

The two first of these are to be esteemed merely as curiosities; in the
third the plant acquires an accession of beauty which it has not
originally; though many persons object to variegated leaves, as
conveying an idea of fickliness, that complaint cannot be urged against
the foliage of the striped Lily, to which the borders of the
flower-garden are indebted for one of their chief ornaments during the
autumnal and winter months; early in September these begin to emerge,
and towards spring another set rises up in their centre, of more upright
growth, and which announce the rising of the flowering stem.

Besides these varieties, LINNAEUS has considered the _Lilium album
floribus dependentibus s. peregrinum_ o