LILIACE^ 



LILIACE.E LILY FAMILY 



Lilium philadelphicum, L. 



Orange-scarlet Red Lily, Wild Orange-red Lily, 



Wood Lily, Flame Lily, 



July-August Philadelphia Lily, Huckleberry Lily. 



Lilium: classical Latin name, from Greek, for Lily. 

 Philadelphicum: Latin for Philadelphian. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry, sandy soil of the Commons. 



THE PLANT: erect, one foot to two feet high; the stem 

 simple or branched at the summit, (the Nantucket form 

 differing from the typical form on the mainland, in being 

 sometimes unbranched), leafy, hairless. 



THE LEAVES: dark green; chiefly in whorls of three to 

 eight; lanceolate; hairless on both surfaces; acute at both 

 ends or the lower sometimes obtuse; sessile; entire; parallel- 

 veined. 



THE FLOWERS: usually one or two, variable in colour and 

 markings, bell-shaped, with six spreading divisions; the 

 parts one half to three quarters of an inch wide, abruptly 

 narrowed at the base into a slender stalk as it were, 

 usually purple-spotted below. There are six long stamens 

 with purple anthers, the filaments resembling the colour 

 of the flower. The flowers turn darker in fading. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule; the seeds densely packed in two 

 rows. 



A beautiful red lily, low-growing (in contrast to the 

 Tiger Lily), with many bright green leaves, that is seen 

 in open places among bay berry bushes, in the sandy 

 soil of the Commons, singly or in pairs, or even three 

 together. A yellow form without spots has been occasion- 

 ally found; of the typical forms, the flowers are dark red, 

 with purple spots, 



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