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LlLIUM CAROLINIANUM. CAROLINA 



M artagon Lily. 



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Class and Order. 



Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 6-petala, carnpanulata : linea longitudinali nectari- 

 fera. Caps, valvulis pilo cancellato connexis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Lilium carolinianum ; caule subunifloro, foliis verticillatis 

 sparsisque carnosis recurvis, petalis revolutis apice 

 compressis. 



Lilium carolinianum ; glaberrimum, foliis enerviis plerum- 

 que verticillatis, late subcuneato-lanceolatis sive obo- 

 valibus, ramis floriferis crassis ternato-terminalibus 

 (rarius binis aut unico) calycibus valde reflexis macu- 

 losis. Michaux Flor. Bor. Am. 1. p. 197. Bot. Reg. 

 580. 



Lilium carolinianum ; foliis plerumque verticillatis cuneato- 

 lanceolatis s. obovalibus enervibus glaberrimis, ramis 

 floriferis crassis ternato-terminalibus, floribus reflexis, 

 corollis revolutis. Pursh. Flor. Am. Sept. 1. p. 229. 



Lilium carolinianum. Nuttall. Gen. I. p. 222. Persoon 

 Syn. 1. p. 359. non Lamarckii. 



Lilium Martagon ; foliis plerumque verticillatis quaternis, 

 caule pedali, floribus plerumque solitariis reflexis, co- 

 rollis revolutis. Walter Fl. Carol, p. 123. 



Lilium Michauxii. Poiret. Suppl. Encycl. 3. p. 457. 



Lilium autumnale. Lodd. Cab. 335. 



Descr. Stem about a foot high, simple, upright, spotted. 

 Leaves some in whorls and some scattered, fleshy, rigid, 

 ovate-lanceolate, recurved, undulate, obscurely three-nerved. 

 Peduncle in the one flowered specimens, and we have seen 



no 



