AN ENCYCLOPADIA 
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Lilium—continued. 
L. Maximowiczii (Maximowicz’s). fl. three or four, the 
groundwork of colour bright scarlet. Stem dark purplish-brown, 
more distinctly cottony than in the type. Syn. L. Maximowiezii 
(R. G. 1868, 596). 
L. L. platypetalum (broad-petaled). fl. bright pale red; perianth 
_ segments broader than in the type. 
L. L. tigrinum (tiger-spotted). . orange-scarlet, thickly dotted 
with dark purple. J. erecto-patent, recurved at apex. (R. G. 664, 
under name of L. Maximowiczii tigrinum.) 
L. linifolium (Flax-leaved). A synonym of L. tenuifolium. 
L. Loddigesianum (Loddiges’). A synonym of L. monadelphum. 
L. longiflorum (long-flowered).* fl. pure white, fragrant, 5in. to 
Tin. long, shaped like a funnel with a neck, solitary or in twos, 
horizontal or slightly drooping. June. Z. twenty to thirty at 
the flowering time; the lower ones crowded, erecto-patent, Sin. to 
Sin. long, linear, three to six lines broad about the middle, acute. 
Stem lft. to 2ft. high, stiff, terete, erect. Japan, China, &c., 
1862. A very handsome species. See Fig. 422. (B. R. 560; 
F. d. S. 270; L. B. C. 985.) 
L. I. eximium (choice).* fl. white, large, infundibuliform-cam- 
panulate; limb segments revolute, firm, undulated, outer ones 
narrow and acutely callous at apex; inner ones narrower and 
obtusely rotundate at apex. J. few, clustered, narrow-lanceolate. 
Japan. Syn. L. Harrisii. (F. d. S. 283, 284, under name of 
L. eximium.) 
Fic. 423. FLOWER-STEM AND DETACHED FLOWER OF LILIUM 
TAGON. 
L. Martagon.* Martagon, or Turk’s Cap Lily. f. of a dull 
urplish-red, with copious spots of dark purple, pendulous, 
din. to 1jin. deep; raceme more regularly pyramidal than that 
of any other species, reaching, in fine specimens, Ift. in length, 
and sometimes nearly twenty-flowered. Summer. J. typically 
in three or four regular whorls of six to nine leaves each, with a 
few scattered ones placed usually between the uppermost and the 
inflorescence, oblanceolate-spathulate, acute. Stem 2ft. to 3ft. 
to 
high, erect, terete, more or less pubescent. Bulb ovoid, lin. to 
Lilium continued. 
lyin, thick; scales bright yellow. Europe, Asia, 1596. A ve 
distinct and largely-grown species, See Fig. 423. (B. M. 89 
1634; J. F. A. 351; Sy. En. B. 1518.) 
L. Maximowiczii (Maximowicz’s). A synonym of L. Leichtlinii 
Maximowiezii. 
L. M. tigrinum (tiger-spotted). A synonym of L. Leichtlinii 
tigrinum. ; 
L. medeoloides (Medeola-like). fl. splendid orange-red, with a 
few purple spots, about 1żin. long, solitary, or in umbels of two 
or three. J. either in a single whorl of seven to fourteen at the 
middle of the stem, or a few scattered, oblanceolate, similar to 
those of L. Martagon, țin, to Gin. long. Stem lft. to 2ft. high, 
slender, terete, flexuose. Japan, 1878. A very distinct species, 
but probably not yet in cultivation. 
L. Michauxianum (Michaux's). A synonym of L. superbum 
carolinianum. 
L. monadelphum (monadelphous).* „. pale bright yellow, tin 
round the base with claret-red, 2 in- to 3sin. long, disposed in 
terminal p idal clusters. Autumn. Z. always scattered, 
thirty to Aity to a stem, much-ascending, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, distinctly ciliated at the edge. Stem stout, erect, 3ft. 
to 5ft. high. Caucasus and Northern Persia, 1820. (B. M. 1405; 
R. G. 733.) SYN. L. Loddigesianum (P. F. G. 58). 
L. m, Szovitsianum (Szovits’).* This differs from the type in 
having the “filaments free to the base, perianth teliri froi 
an SaR o with se; 1 est a little below the 
middle.” e pollen is eeper in colour. SYNS. 
L. colchicum, L. Szovitsianum (F. d. S. 507-9). 5 
L. neilgherrense (Neilgherries).“ fl. white, sweet-scented, one 
to three, ascendent ; perianth narrow, funnel-shaped ; segments 
oblanceolate-unguiculate. J. glabrous, shini ive ascendent, 
firm, three to five-nerved. S 2ft. to 3ft. „ upright. Neil- 
gherries. Greenhouse. Syns. L. tubiflorum, L. Wallichianum. 
(B. M. 6332.) 5 
L. nepalense (Nepaulese). fl. white, more or less suffused with 
purple on the outside towards the base, from Ain, to 5in. lon 
solitary, umbellate, or laxly racemose, about six-flow 5 
narrow, thyrsoid. J. thirty to fifty, scattered, linear-lanceolate ; 
the lower ones 3in. to 4in. long, six to nine lines broad in the 
middle, acute, erecto-patent. Stem 14ft. to 3ft. high, erect, zin. 
thick at the base. Central Himalayas, &., 1855. reenhouse. 
L. nitidum (bright). fl. bright yellow, 14in. long; panicle deltoid, 
6in. to 12in. long, from ten to twenty-flowered; lower pedicels 
2in. to 3in. long. J. up to twenty in a whorl, lanceolate, Thin. to 
Zin. long. Stem 14ft. long below the inflorescence, stout, terete. 
Bulb transversely oblong, with crowded, adpressed, lanceolate, 
white scales. California, 1880. 
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L. odorum (odorous). A synonym of L, japonicum. 
L. o. um (sharp-petaled).* fl. solitary, terminal, some- 
what drooping, at first campanulate, at length spreading; sepals 
lilac-purple, with a green keel externally, the lower within 
purple-dotted, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, clawed at base. 
June. J., radical ones usually solitary, long, lanceolate, taj ; 
to a petiole-like base; cauline ones distant, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, at length recurved. Stem lft. to 14ft. high. Pindari, 
Kumaon. (B. M. 4731, under name of Fritillaria oxypetala.) 
L. pardalinum 8 fl. . ng orange-red, with a 
arge purple spots on the lower half, 
rnia, 
some North American Lily, of which the following are the 
most distinct varieties : Bourgæi, one of the finest, producing stout 
stems, 6ft. to 7ft. in height, bearing from twelve to twenty flowers 
of a bright crimson, shading to orange, and ven be “vipa with 
L. (Parry’s).* fl. pale yellow, copiously spotted with choco- 
late- fragrant, horizontal. Summer. l. usually scattered, 
occasionally the lower ones in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, 4in. to 
6in. long, acuminate. Stem „ 2ft. to 6ft. high. California, 
1879. A distinct and handsome species. 
L. penduliflorum (pendulous-fiowered). A synonym of L. 
canadense. 
L. pennsylvanicum (Pennsylvanian). A synonym of L. 
davuricum. 
L. peregrinum (foreign). A synonym of L. candidum pere 
grinum. 
+ philadelphicum (Philadelphian).* fl. bright orange-red 
usually spotted with purple in the lower half, Zin. to 3in. deep, 
under 2in. across at the mouth when expanded, solitary or um- 
bellate ; peduncles ascending, arcuate, or straight. Summer. 
L typically in four or five re r whorls of six to eight each, 2in. 
to 4in. apart, spreading, narrowly oblanceolate, narrowed at both 
