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LiliatcB. 



2. Lilium L. Lily. 



Tall bulbous herbs with short rhizomes and simple, leafy 

 stems; flowers erect or drooping, showy, bisporangiate ; perianth 

 funnel form of 6 separate, spreading or recurved segnients, all 

 alike, or nearly so, nectar bearing; stamens 6, extrorse; anthers, 

 versatile; style elongated; stigma 3 lobed; capsule loculicidal. 



1. Perianth segments not clawed, flowers drooping or spreading. 2. 



1. Perianth segments narrowed into long claws, flowers erect. 3. 



2. Leaves smooth, perianth segments recurved. L. superhum. 



2. Leaves roughened or tuberculate on the veins beneath; perianth seg- 



inents recurved or spreading. L. canadense. 



3. Leaves mostly whorled, lanceolate or linear lanceolate. 



L. philadelphicmn. 

 3. Leaves, all but the uppermost, scattered, narrowly linear. 



L. umljcUatum. 



1. Lilium superbum L. Turk's-cap Lily. Stem 2-7>^ feet 

 high; leaves lanceolate, smooth, acuminate at both ends, lower 

 leaves whorled; one-to-many-flowered, flowers drooping or spread- 

 ing, orange, yellow-orange or rarely red, purple spotted, long 

 peduncled, formimg large panicles; perianth segments recurved. 

 In meadows and marshes. Reported for Erie County. Mosley's 

 herbarium. 



2. Lilium canadense L. Canada Lily. Stem 2-6 feet high; 

 leaves remotely whorled, lanceolate, 3 nerved, roughened or 

 tuberculate on the veins beneath; flowers drooping or spreading, 

 long peduncled, yellow or orange, usually spotted with brown; 

 perianth segments recurved or spreading. In swamps or meadows. 

 General. 



3. Lilium philadelphicum L. Philadelphia Lily. Stem 1>^- 

 3 feet high; leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly whorled; flowers 1-3, 

 erect, reddish orange, spotted with purple inside; perianth seg- 

 ments narrowed into long claws. Dry or sandy soil. Fulton, 

 Lucas, Sandusky, Eric. 



4. Lilium umbellatum Pursh. Western Red Lily. Similar 

 to L. philadelphicum, but more slender; leaves, all but the upper- 

 most scattered, narrowly linear; flowers 1-3, red, orange or yellow, 

 spotted below; erect, perianth segments narrowed into claws, 

 shorter than the blade. In dry soil on prairies. Stark County. 



3. Erythronium L. Dog-tooth Lily. 



Nearly stemless herbs arising from a deep bulb, stem bearing 

 two smooth, spotted leaves with sheathing petioles and one 

 nodding flower at the top; perianth of 6 lanceolate, recurved or 

 spreading divisions; anthers oblong-linear, style elongated; 

 capsule obovoid, contracted near the base. 

 L Flowers yellow; stigmas very short. E. americanum. 

 \. Flowers white or pinkish white; stigmas longer, spreading and more 

 recurved. E. albidum. 



