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LÍLIUM tenuifoliiim.
Fine-leaved Lily.
Linnean Class and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. L IL IAC EAi. Brown prodr. I . p. 295, in notd.
i /Z /U M .— Suprà fol. 185.
L. tenuifolium, perianthio revoluto : foliolis l®vibus basi sulco bivalvi munitis,
pistillo staminibus duplo breviore, capsulis turblnatis rotundis, foliis lineari-
angustissimis.
Lilium tenuifolium. Fisch. M S S . Schrad, p i. rar. hort. gcett. fa s e . 1 . R am . et
Schult. syst. 7. p. 409. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 3140.
L. radice tunicata, foliis sparsis, floribus reflexis, corollis revolutis. Gmel. sib.
1. p. 42. n. 9.
L. reflexum, montanum, humile, angustifolium, aurantium. Amm. ru th .n . 138.
Bulbs about the size of a walnut, rather coated than scaly.
Stem erect, from a span to a foot high, slightly angular,
scarcely thicker than a crowquill, copiously besprinkled, as
well as the rest of the plant, with minute crystalline dots,
which give it a glaucous hue. Leaves rather crowded, especially
towards the top of the stem, disposed in a spiral
manner, occasionally verticillate, very narrow, linear,
bluntish, dotted, of a glaucous green, somewhat twisted,
glabrous, wdth a narrow silvery edge, marked above with a
shallow furrow, the keel blunt, bearing at the base a tuft of
long, soft, jointed, spirally convolute, and finally pendulous
hairs; the primordial ones lanceolate, acute, nerved, shining,
attenuated towards the base, and somewhat stalked. Flowers
mostly solitary in native specimens, but often 3 or 5 in cultivated
plants, about half the size of those of L . chalcedonicum,
and of the same rich minium red. Peduncles wavy, spreading,
filiform, glabrous, an inch, or an inch and a half long,
slightly thickened at the apex. Perianthium 6-petaloid, the
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