LILIACEAE. 
5. Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Asa Gray’s 
Lily. (Fig. 1007.) 
Lilium Grayt S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 256. 1879. 
Rootstock bearing small subglobose bulbs with 
thick ovate scales. Stem slender, 2°-3° high; 
leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the 
apex, narrowed at the base, 2’-4’ long, 34’-1’ wide, 
verticillate in 3’s-S’s or the lowest commonly 
smaller and scattered, all finely roughened on the 
veins beneath; flowers 1-3, long-peduncled, spread- 
ing or slightly drooping, 2’-3/ long, red or tinged 
with yellow at the base; perianth-segments oblong- 
spatulate, not clawed, acute, spotted; capsule fig- 
shaped, about 114’ high. 
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Peaks of Otter, Virginia, and on the higher moun- 
tain summits in North Carolina. July-Aug. 
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6. Lilium supérbum [L,. Turk’s-cap Lily. (Fig. 1008.) 
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Lilium superbum I,. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 434. 1762. 
Bulbs globose, 1/-2’ in diameter, borne on 
short rootstocks, their scales white, thick, ovate. 
Stem stout or slender, 3°-8° high; leaves lan- 
ceolate or linear-lanceolate, smooth on both 
sides, acuminate at both ends, 2/-6’ long, \4/— 
114’ wide, verticillate in 3’s-8’s or the upper al- 
ternate, the veinlets not prominently anastomo- 
sing; flowers orange, orange-yellow or rarely 
red, 3-40, or rarely solitary, nodding, long-pe- 
duncled, forming, when numerous, a large pan- 
icle; perianth-segments 2%4/-4’ long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, purple-spotted, at length usually 
strongly recurved from below the middle; cap- 
sule obovoid, 114/-2 high. 
= In meadows and marshes, Maine to Ontario and 
Minnesota, south to North Carolina and Tennessee. 
Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. July-Aug. 
7. Lilium Carolinianum Michx. Carolina 
Lily. (Fig. roog. ) 
Lilium Carolinianum Michx. F1. Bor. Am. 1: 197. 1803. 
Lilium superbum var. Carolintanum Chapm. FI. S. 
States, 484. 1860. 
Bulbs borne on short rootstocks, globose, 1/-2/ in 
diameter, composed of numerous fleshy scales. Stem 
2°-3° high, slender; leaves oblanceolate or obovate, 
smooth, verticillate or the upper and lower alternate, 
acute, obtuse or short-acuminate at the apex, nar- 
rowed at the base, the veinlets prominently anasto- 
mosing; flowers 1-3, orange-red, 3/-4’ long, long- 
peduncled, nodding; perianth-segments lanceolate, 
acuminate, purple-spotted below, strongly arched 
backward with their tips sometimes connivent. 
In dry woods, Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. As- 
cends to 3500 ft. in Virginia. Aug. 
