N. ORD.—LILIACE. 178 
Tribe.— LILIEA. 
GENUS.—LILIUM,* LINN. 
SEX, SYST.--HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
LILIUM SUPERBUM. 
TURK’S-CAP LILY. 
SYN.—LILIUM SUPERBUM, LINN.; L. CAROLINIANUM, MICHX. (?) 
COM. NAMES.—TURK’S-CAP LILY, SUPERB LILY, MEADOW LILY, WILD 
TIGER LILY. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH BULB OF LILIUM SUPERBUM, LINN. 
Description.—This beautiful perennial herb attains a growth of from 3 to 7 
feet. Bulb scaly; stems simple, erect, glabrous, rounded. Leaves sessile, the 
lower in whorls of from 5 to 7, the upper scattered, all 3-nerved, lanceolate, 
pointed, and smooth. /xflorescence a terminal pyramidal raceme; flowers 3 to 
40, nodding; erianth open campanulate, its divisions somewhat coherent at their 
bases. Sefads 6, sessile, strongly revolute, deciduous, bright orange with numer- 
ous dark purple spots inside, and a honey-bearing furrow at the base. Stamens 6, 
shorter than the style, hypogynous; //aments dilated and somewhat adherent at 
their bases, from which they taper to a very fine apex at the point of fixture of the 
anther; azthers linear, versatile, at first included then projecting, opening by a 
lateral or slightly introrse line. Ovary 3-celled; ova/es anatropous. Séy/e elon- 
gated club-shaped ; stigma apical, 3-lobed, the receptive surface velvety. Fruit 
an oblong, subtriangular, 3-celled, loculicidal capsule, each cell containing two rows 
of seeds, Seeds numerous, horizontally flattened by compression; festa soft ; embryo 
small, axial; a/dumen fleshy. 
History and Habitat.—This beautiful lily is indigenous to North America from 
the Carolinas northward to Canada and westward to the Rocky Mountains, where 
it habits rich low grounds, and flowers from June through July. 
This species has no medical history, its congener, ZL. tagrinum, of China, cover- 
ing all that is known concerning this. 
PART USED AND PREPARATION.—The fresh bulbs are treated in the 
same manner as those of Trillium (p. 175-5). The resulting tincture has a 
beautiful orange color by transmitted light; no distinguishing odor; a bitter and 
astringent taste, and an acid reaction. 
* The classical Latin name, from the Celtic é, or the Greek Newry, /eirion, white. 
