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These have a bitter taste, and a pretty strong smell: they are supposed to be useful in hysteric disorders, to strengthen the stomach, to promote urine; and indeed it may be judged from their smell and taste, that their medical virtues are considerable, though they are now rejected both from the London and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias. LILIUM candidum. WHITE LILY. The Roots.
If we may believe Horace, Soracte was visible from Rome: for, in his ninth ode, addressed to Thaliarchus, he says, Vides, ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte You see how deeply wreathed with snow Soracte lifts his hoary head, but, in order to see Montefiascone, his eyesight must have penetrated through the Mons Cyminus, at the foot of which now stands the city of Viterbo.
Lilies have a variety called Lilium candidum flore pleno, in which the flowers seem to be converted into a long spike of bright, white narrow bracts, crowded on an axis which never seems to cease their production. It is manifestly impossible to decide how all such sterile double flowers have originated.
From the United States also we get the charming C. candidum, C. parviflorum, C. pubescens, and many more less important. Canada and Siberia furnish C. guttatum, C. macranthum, and others. I saw in Russia, and brought home, a magnificent species, tall and stately, bearing a great golden flower, which is not known "in the trade;" but they all rotted gradually.
Still in the winter you may see the dazzling peak of the "gelidus Algidus" and "ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte"; and wandering at Tivoli in the summer, his description, "Domus Albuneae resonantis, Et praeceps Anio, et Tiburni lucus, et uda Mobililius pomaria rivis," is as true and fresh as if his words were of yesterday.
He don't seem to care no more whether the flowers blooms or doesn't. Them phloxes up against the west wall now a finer show I never seen an' as for the lilum candidum, they're a perfect picter.
No animal or human life could exist within the range of the poison its deadly bloom exhales. The plant belongs to the order Liliaceæ and would seem from its general form to be closely allied with the Lilium Candidum. This, however, only applies to its form, and by no means to its habit. Its magnificent bloom is dead white and of intense purity.
Headaches every morning, debts and disgrace, varied by occasional imprisonments." "The Emperor sits naked in a grotto at the foot of Soracte." "Vides ut alta stet nive candidum, Soracte." "As we are speaking, life the envious flits away. Enjoy the present day, nor trust the morrow!" "And the Pope is going to hold a midnight mass he who has no faith in it himself."
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