112 SWISS FLOWERS. 



91 and 92. Lilium.— Lily. 



(PLATES LIL and LIU.) 



This family, so well known by its six stamens, its large 

 flower, and its broad open sepals, is one of the greatest 

 ornaments of our gardens and our greenhouses, but we do 

 not find it wild. It is, however, so easily recognized, that 

 great is the pleasure of meeting it among the grass and 

 the scattered rocks of the mountains. The plants do not 

 grow in masses, but spring up here and there, one catching 

 the eje beyond the corner of a rock, another perhaps being 

 tantalizingly out of reach, and where it may be far safer 

 not to venture after it. L. Martagon (Fig. 91) is from two 

 to five feet high, with three or four flowers on rather 

 short stalks, nodding toward the top of the stem, their six 

 long and narrow sepals rolled back, giving it the appear- 

 ance whence arises its common name of Turk's Cap. It 

 is not nearly so handsome as many which go by that name, 

 as the colour is a rather dull reddish-purple, marked with 

 darker spots ; though redeemed from commonness by its 

 bright scarlet stamens. The leaves grow from five to eight 

 in a whorl, with one or two at the base of each leaf-stalk. 

 Woods and meadows of the Jura and Alps, to the height of 

 five thousand feet : Maderaner Thai, Sils in the Engadine. 



L. bulbiferum (Fig. 92) is a gorgeous flower, its six 

 scarlet sepals two or three inches long, which do not turn 



