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LILIUM Gavi. 
Native of the Mountains of Virginia and Carolina. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacrz.—Tribe TuLirra. 
Genus Litium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 816.) 
Litrum (Martagon) Grayi; rhizomate late repente bulbos parvos annuos 
globosos squamis parvis crassis ferente, caule gracili erecto, foliis pleris- 
que verticillatis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis viridibus glabris, 
floribus 1-3 longe pedunculatis horizontalibus vel subcernuis, perianthio 
infundibulari rubro vel luteo tincto, segmentis oblongo-spathulatis cus- 
pidatis intus maculis rubro-brunneis decoratis flore expanso leviter recur- 
vatis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus, stylo clavato apice 
stigmatoso leviter trilobato ovario equilongo. 
L. Grayi, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. pp. 256 and 302; 
Garden & Forest, vol. i. (1888) pp. 19, 56, and 256, fig. 4; Man. Bot. 
Jorth Unit. States, edit. vi. p. 529. 
The present plant is nearly allied to Lilium cana- 
dense (Bot. Mag., tabs. 800 and 858), but was considered 
to be a distinct species by the late Dr. Sereno Watson and 
other American botanists who have watched it carefully 
under cultivation. It was first gathered by Dr. Asa Gray, 
in 1840, near the summit of Roan Mountain, one of the 
Alleghanies of North Carolina, and was refound at the 
same place in June, 1879, by Dr. Gray and Professor 
Sergeant. It has been found by Mr. A. H. Curtiss on the 
Peaks of Otter, in Virginia, and by Mr. A. H. Kelsey on 
the bunks of the Linville river, at the foot of Grandfather 
Mountain, in North Carolina. As. compared with L. 
canadense, the flowers are smaller, less pendulous, and 
more open at the base, and the segments recurve very 
little, and are narrowed more suddenly at the apex. In 
the plant from which our drawing was made, which 
flowered at Kew for the first time in an open border in 
the summer of 1891, the flowers were entirely red ; but 
they are said to be often tinged with yellow, especially on 
the inside towards the base. The plant, as grown in the 
Harvard botanic garden, has proved to be perfectly hardy, 
May Isr, 1892. : 
