LÍLIUM peregrinum.
Narî'ow-sepalled White Lily-
Linnean Class and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. LILIACEÆ. Brown prodr. 1. p. 295, in notâ.
LILIUM. Supràfol. 185.
L veregrinum foliis sparsis linearl-loratis, perianthio campanulato cernuo, sepalis
' lanceolatis acutis glabris basi angustatls distmctisque, stylo sub stigmate
LiliumTftlbnum. Mill, diet.n. 2. Red. Iil. fo l. 199. Hayn. getr. darst.
n, 8. Í.2 7 . S c h u lt .f i l.s y s t .l .p .J \l .
L. Z x A w n ii .U n n .s p .p l . p. ^-33. Willd. sp.pl. 2. p 85. ,
L album floribus dependentibus, sive peregrinum. Bauh. pm. p. 7b.
L. bisantinum. Sweerts. fiorii, t. 45. (pessima).
Sultan Zambach (sive Martagón Constantinopohtanum albo flore). Clus. hist. I.
v. 135. cum icone optimd. . i c ,
Martagón album, Lilium candidum Byzantmum. Lob. ic. t. 163. f . 2. (fig.
Clusian.)
Stem straight, leafy, about three feet high, of a livid
purple angular, glabrous, about the thickness of one s finger.
Leaves alternate, linear-lorate, green, glabrous and shining,
finely serrulate at the edges, furnished beneath with a prominent
midrib, varying from 3 to 6 inches long, and about
half an inch in breadth. Spike terminal, composed of from
8 to 10 flowers. Perianthium drooping, campanulate, white,
3 inches long. Sepals narrow, lanceolate, acute, erect, wavy
and slightly twisted, attenuated and apart towards the tese.
Stamem 6, considerably shorter than the perianthium. Filaments
awl-shaped, white. AntJmrs yellow, versatile oi two
parallel, connate cells, opening lengthways. Uvanum
obtusely 6-angled. Style stout, cylindrical, white, pale
ffreen and triangular at the apex, longer than the stamens.
Stiqma green, of 3 thick, fleshy, minutely papillose lobes.
An old inhabitant of the Dutch gardens, and, as appears
from Miller, long since introduced into our own, but, from
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