The Coronilla varia is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, climbing, if supported, to the height of four or five feet, otherwise spreading widely on the ground, and frequently injuring less robust plants growing near it; on this account, as well as from its having powerfully creeping roots whereby it greatly increases, though a pretty plant, and flowering during most of the summer, it is not to be introduced without caution, and is rather to be placed in the shrubbery, or outskirts of the garden, than in the flower border. It will grow in any soil or situation, but blossoms and seeds most freely in a soil moderately dry. PARKINSON in his _Theater of Plants_, mentions its being cultivated, as an ornamental plant. _Ait. Kew._ Its bitterness, will be an objection to its being cultivated for the use of cattle, for which purpose it has been recommended. [259] LILIUM CATESBAEI. CATESBY'S 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 _Catesbaei_ caule unifloro, petalis erectis unguiculatis. _Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13._ _Gmel. p. 545._ LILIUM _Catesbaei_ foliis sparsis, bipedali, flore unico erecto, corolla campanulata, petalis unguibus angustis longis. _Walt. Fl. Carol. p. 123._ LILIUM _Spectabile_ foliis sparsis; floribus solitariis erectis; petalorum unguibus angustis, alternis extus utrinque sulcatis, laminis revolutis. _Salisb. Ic. Stirp. rar. t. 5._ At the close of the year 1787, Mr. ROBERT SQUIBB, sent me from South-Carolina roots of the Lily here figured, many of which have since flowered with various persons in this kingdom. CATESBY in his Natural History of Carolina, gives a figure and short account of it; WALTER in his _Flora Caroliniana_ describes it under the name of _Lilium Catesbaei_; Mr. SALISBURY in the first number of his very magnificent work, lately published, presents us with a very highly finished likeness of this lily, accompanied by a most accurate and minute description of it, and judging from some appearances in CATESBY'S figure, that it was not the _Lilium Catesbaei_ of WALTER, names it _spectabile_; but as we are assured by Mr. SQUIBB, who assisted his friend WALTER in his publication, that it was the lily figured by CATESBY, we have continued the name given in honour of that Naturalist. Of the different Lilies cultivated in this country, this is to be numbered among the least, the whole plant when in bloom being frequently little more than a foot high; in its native soil it is described as growing to the height of two feet; the stalk is terminated by one upright flower, of the form and colour represented on the plate; we have observed it to vary considerably in the breadth of its petals, in their colour, and spots. It flowers usually in July and August.