MOUNTAIN FLOWERS 317 



Lilies grow in many climes and are of divers hues. White 

 and yellow, orange and red, tall and stately, they flourish con- 

 spicuously in the valleys and on the mountain tops, beneath 

 blazing tropical suns and close beside the eternal snows. 



The Philadelphia Lily is one of the handsomest of the 

 alpine flowers, and early in July its red-tinted tawny bells render 

 the woods attractively gay. As if conscious of their glory, the 

 large bright blossoms grow erect on tall stems, round which 

 circling clusters of dark green narrow-pointed leaves are set 

 at intervals ; the outer surface of the segments is pale orange, 

 while the open bells are of a vivid reddish hue within, and 

 spotted with purplish-brown. Large anthers crown the six 

 long stamens, and the stigma is three-lobed. 



This Lily does not fear the drought of long summer days, 

 but grows in stately splendour in the driest thickets. It has 

 assumed a gorgeous garb of flaming orange in order to attract 

 those insects that pollenize its flowers; for while the brilliant 

 colour quickly attracts the bees, the purplish spots and lines 

 unerringly point out to them the most direct route to their 

 desired goal, namely, those nectar grooves which lie at the 

 base of each segment. 



Truly was it said that "even Solomon in all his glory was 

 not arrayed like one of these "; for the wild orange-red Phila- 

 delphia Lilies shine with a beauty unequalled in the alpine 

 forests. 



WESTERN LILY 



Liliutn Columbianum. Lily Family 



Bulb, with lanceolate, acute, closely appressed scales. Stems : slender. 

 Leaves : in whorls, scattered above and below, narrowly lanceolate, 

 sharply acuminate, thin, glabrous. Flowers: racemose, or in whorls on 

 stout pedicels, six segments of the perianth revolute. 



This Western Lily somewhat resembles the Turk's-cap Lily, 

 for its head is drooped and its floral leaves are revolute, or 



