(From smooth, graceful). The Lily.

Lilium convallium minus. See Monophtllon.

Lilium album. The common white lily, lilium candidum Lin. Sp. Pl. 433, is perennial, a native of Syria and Palestine, common in our gardens, and flowers in June. The flower gives an agreeable flavour to expressed oil, and the roots are extremely mucilaginous boiled with milk or water, they are useful in emollient and suppurating cataplasms: but the bread and other farinaceous poultices possess equal advantages. Dr. Alston thinks the roots are of the nature of squills. Godorus, serjeant-surgeon to queen Elizabeth, cured many dropsical people, by giving them bread in which these roots were baked.

Lilium convallium convellaria Maianthemum, May lily, and lily of the valley, convallaria majalis Lin. Sp. Pl. 451. Its flowers are smaller than any other lilies, have a penetrating bitter taste and a fragrant smell: the bitter remains both in the spirituous and watery extract; and is nearly as purgative as aloes. The dried flowers are a strong sternutatory; and the roots possess the bitter and purging qualities of the flowers. The flowers were formerly used in nervous complaints, sometimes in spasmodic asthmas, or catarrhs.

Lilium rubrum, hemerocallis fulva Lin. Sp. Pl. 462, lilium purpurocroceum, lilium croceum. Orange lily. The leaves are cooling, and the roots aperient and stimulating.

Lilium Paracelsi, a fanciful term of that enthusiast for a very pungent penetrating alkaline tincture.