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Lilium chalcedonicum or Chalcedonian Lily
Lilium chalcedonicum. Chalcedonian 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 chalcedonicum foliis sparsis lanceolatis, floribus reflexis,
corollis revolutis. Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 324.
LILIUM byzantium miniatum. Bauh. Pin. 78.
The Red Martagon of Constantinople. Park. Parad. p. 34.
This species is best known in the nurseries by the name of the
Scarlet Martagon; but as it is not the Martagon of Linnĉus, to avoid
confusion it will be most proper to adhere to the name which Linnĉus
has given it.
It is a native not only of Persia, but of Hungary; Professor Jacquin,
who has figured it in his most excellent Flora Austriaca, describes
it as growing betwixt Carniola and Carinthia, and other parts of
Hungary, but always on the tops of the largest mountains.
It varies in the number of its flowers, from one to six, and the
color in some is found of a blood red.
Authors differ in their ideas of its smell: Jacquin describing it as
disagreeable, while Scopoli compares it to that of an orange.
It flowers in June and July; and is propagated by offsets, which it
produces pretty freely, and which will grow in almost any soil or
situation.
The best time for removing the roots is soon after the leaves are
decayed, before they have begun to shoot.
The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden
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