1926] 



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York Botanical Garden plants of the tiger lily have yielded 

 capsules and viable seeds to the pollen of four different kinds 

 (species?) of lilies. 



To the pollen of Lilium Maximowiczii, and Liliujn sutchuen- 

 ense about 100 fine capsules were obtained which yielded several 



Fig. 2. At / above are shown capsules of the tiger lihes obtained from pol- 

 lination with L. sutchuenense, and those at 2 are from pollen of L. Maximowiczii. 

 Those two crosses give such capsules as these for nearly every flower pollinated. 

 At J are shown some of the capsules obtained from the cross L. tigrinum X L. 

 Leichtlinii; at 4, one of the capsules resulting from the use of pollen of Z-. davuricum 

 Wallacei. Thus far in the experiments at the New York Botanical Garden tiger 

 lilies have yielded only such immature and seedless capsules as are shown at 5 to 

 pollen of L. warleyense. At 6 are shown capsules obtained on L. w'arleyense when 

 the pollen ot a tiger lily was used in controlled pollination. 



thousand viable seeds. Some of these capsules were shown 

 (Stout, 1922, 1923) in what appear to be the first illustrations 

 ever published of an authentic capsule of the tiger lily. The 

 two species just mentioned closely resemble the tiger lily in 

 general appearance, and the ease with which they cross with it 

 suggests a close kinship. 



