Plate 278 - White Lily

Plate 278

Publication Information

Flowering Period: May - July - August - September

Description:
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LILIUM CANDIDUM. WHITE LILY.

Class and Order
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Generic Character
. Cor. 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarisera. Caps. valvulis pilo cancellato connexis.

Specific Character and Synonyms
. LILIUM candidum soliis 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. Baub. 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 inha- bitants 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 statelinefs, so showy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much disposed to increafe, would of courfe soon be found very generally in gardens, into which its intro- duction would be accelerated on another account; it was regarded as a plant of great efficacy; among other extraordi- nary powers attributed to it, we are gravely told that it taketh away the wrinkles of the face. LINNEUS makes it a native of Paleftine 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 ftriped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow. The two first of these are to be efteemed merely as curiofities; in the third the plant acquires an acceffion of beauty which it has not originally; though many persons object to variegated leaves, N LIVERPOOL LIBRARY


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[278] LILIUM CANDIDUM. WHITE LILY. Class and Order. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. Cor. 6-petala, campanulata: linea longitudinali nectarisera. Caps. valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. specific Character and synonyms. LILIUM candidum soliis sparsis, corollis campanulatis, intus glabris. Linn. sp. Pl. ed. 3. p. 433. syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 324. Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 429. LILIUM album flore erecto et vulgare. Baub. 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 inha- bitants 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 statelinefs, so showy, so fragrant, and at the same time so much disposed to increafe, would of courfe soon be found very generally in gardens, into which its intro- duction would be accelerated on another account; it was regarded as a plant of great efficacy; among other extraordi- nary powers attributed to it, we are gravely told that it taketh away the wrinkles of the face. LINNEUS makes it a native of Paleftine 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 ftriped leaves, or leaves edged with yellow. The two first of these are to be efteemed merely as curiofities; in the third the plant acquires an acceffion of beauty which it has not originally; though many persons object to variegated leaves,

N LIVERPOOL LIBRARY Pub by W. W Curtis Geo st Geo Crescent Oct 1.1794

Plate Period: 1792-1794 - W.J.H. becomes primary artist
Typical Artists: W Curtis, W.J.H.del
Expected Publisher: W Curtis at st Geo Crescent
Publisher Location: St. George's Crescent, London - the original publisher address for Curtis's Botanical Magazine

Original botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine