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LILIUM sanguineum. 
Blvod-red Lily. 
fin 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LiLracea. (Lityworts, Lindley's Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 200.) 
LILIUM. L. 
$ EuLir10N. Sepala unguiculata, campanulato-conniventia, sulco nectarifero 
distineto.— Kunth. 
L. sanguineum ; nanum, glaberrimum, foliis densis subverticillatis ovato- 
lanceolatis acutis, flore erecto solitario, sepalis petalisgue unguiculatis 
staminibus aequalibus, sulco nectarifero tomentoso. : 
L. sanguineum, Hort. 
This is said to be a plant of Japanese origin, and if so it 
is no doubt one of the discoveries of Siebold ; but we find no 
record of it in books. 
It is remarkable for its dwarfness, not growing more than 
twelve or eighteen inches high, and for the vivid colour of its 
large solitary orange-red flower. It might be supposed to be 
a variety of L. Thunbergianum, but that plant has a tall 
hairy stem bearing several flowers of a larger size, with much 
shorter stamens, and a less brilliant colour. The divisions 
of the flower are, moreover, very distinctly stalked, which 
brings the species nearer to L. philadelphicum, from which it 
is clearly distinguished by its upper leaves not being dis- 
tinctly verticillate, and by 1ts great woolly honey-furrow. 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, where it proves to be a half hardy bulb, grow- 
ing freely in a light loamy or peaty soil, to which has been 
added a small portion of well decomposed cow dung or 
leaf mould. The bulbs, like those of the other kinds of Lily, 
always suffer when disturbed, and should therefore only be 
entirely removed from the soil when an increase is wanted. 
It is easily increased, either by parting the old bulbs or by 
