AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 267 
Lilium— continued. 
L. autumnale (autumnal). 
lintanum. 
L. avenaceum (Oat-like). f. few, sometimes sub-umbellate, on 
pedicels 2in. to Sin. long; perianth fine reddish-yellow, slightly 
scented, Iain. to lin. long; segments lanceolate, about zin. 
broad, cucullate at apex, minutely dotted. J. horizontal, oblan- 
ceolate, Sin. to 4in. long, zin. to Izin. broad, glabrous, tender, 
sometimes partly whorled. Stem glabrous, terete, 14ft. to 2ft. 
high. Japan, &c., 1865. (R. G. 485.) 
L. Bloomerianum (Bloomer’s). A synonym of L. Humboldtii. 
L. Brownii (Brown’s). A synonym of L. japonicum Brownit. 
L. bulbiferum (bulb-bearing).* f. red, slightly cottony on the 
outside, 2in. to 2}in. long, permanently erect ; raceme sometimes 
congested into an umbel, twelve to eighteen-flowered. Summer. 
J. irregularly scattered, fifty to sixty to a stem at the flowering 
time, linear, erecto-patent, sessile, the upper ones bearing clus- 
tered or solitary, stalked or sessile, chestnut-brown bulblets in 
their axils. Stem 2ft. to Aft. high, rigid, erect, sulcate, pubes- 
cent. Bulb ovoid, the outer scales lin. deep, Europe, 1820. A very 
desirable garden plant. See Fig. 413. (B. M. 1018; J. F. A. 226.) 
L. bulbiferum (bulb-bearing), of De Candolle. A synonym of 
L. croceum. 3 
L. callosum (callous-bracted). A. bright scarlet, drooping, l}in. 
to Iain. deep, about a dozen in a narrow, regular, th id raceme ; 
peduncles lin. to 1}in. long, subtended by a pair of small bracts, 
which are curiously indurated, and hood-shaped at the tip. 
Summer. Z. ascending, about thirty to a stem at the flowering 
A synonym of L. superbum caro- 
time; lower ones din. to Sin. long, scarcely over jin. broad at the 
middle, having a long acute point; edge slightly recurved. Stem 
2ft. to 3ft. Pa moderately slender, sub-terete. Japan, 1840. 
(S. Z. F. J. ix. 41.) 
FIG. 412. INFLORESCENCE OF LILIUM AURATUM, 
L. canadense (Canadian)“ fl. varying in colour from bright 
yellow to pale bright red, with copious spots, especially in the 
lower two-thirds, of purplish-red corymbose, pendulous; peri- 
anth 2in. to 24in. long, the divisions much less reflexed than 
those of L. Martagon, Summer. l. typically in four or five regular 
whorls, 2in. to Sin. apart, of six to fifteen oblanceolate leaves, 
spreading nearly horizontally, narrowed gradually to an acute 
point. Stem lft. to 3ft. high, erect, terete. Bulb more or less 
obliquely rhizomatous. North America, 1829. Syn. L. penduli- 
florum. See Fig. 414. (B. M. 800, 858; F. d. S. 1174.) 
L. o. parvum (small). fl. loosely corymbose, drooping, on very 
slender pedicels 3in. to din. long; pinan bright orange-red, 
lin. to 111 . long, the tube greenish externally, the segments 
oblanceolate, spotted -with dark red-purple about the throat. 
June. J. scattered or whorled, or both, on the same stem, lanceo- 
late or oblong-lanceolate, 14in. to 2in. long. Stem slender, Iàft. 
to 2ft. high. California. (B. M. 6146; R. G. 725.) 
L. candidum (white).“ St. Joseph's Lily. „. pure pearl-white, 
very rarely tinged with purple on the outside, 2in. to din. long, 
the upper ones more or less ascending, the lower drooping ; 
racemes from five to ten or even twenty-flowered, thyrsoid. 
Lilium continued. 
Fic. 413. FLOWER-STEM OF LILIUM BULBIFERUM. 
June. J. six to two hundred, much crowded in the lower half, 
erecto-patent, linear, the lowest reaching 6in. to 8in. long, żin. to 
lin. broad above the middle. Stem 2ft. to 3ft. high, stiff, erect, 
six to nine lines thick at the base. South Europe, 1596. A 
very handsome and common species. See Fig. 415. (B. M. 278.) 
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Fic. 414. LILIUM CANADENSE, showing Habit and detached 
Single Flower. as 
