﻿Farwell: Notes ox Michigan Liliace^ 353 



imbued with the idea that our red lily of the middle west was the 

 true Lilium canadense that when I first saw the smaller, yellow- 

 flowered lily east of the Appalachians, from the window of a 

 slowly moving train, I was unable to recognize it as of that species, 

 it appeared to be so radically different from my conception of 

 what Lilium canadense should be. The red-flowered plant is 

 unquestionably a distinct species. 



' Lilium michiganense sp. nov. 



Leaves remotely whorled, six to ten in a whorl, three- to 

 seven-nerved and rough on the nerves beneath as well as on the 

 margins, lanceolate (12 mm, wide by 9 cm. long) to ovate-lanceo- 

 late (19 mm. wide by 4.5 cm. long); flowers in a pyramidal 

 cluster (two to four axial from the uppermost whorl and about 

 four racemosely disposed on the terminal portion of the stem) , the 

 peduncles 10-12 cm. long, often bearing a foHaceous bract near 

 the middle. 



Michigan: Wiard's Crossing, July 9, 1910, Farwell 2162Y2. 



Similar to L. canadense in foliage and to L. superhiim in its 

 flowers, which are of a beautiful orange-red, copiously spotted 

 inside with purplish brown or crimson spots. The upper leaves 

 of this plant are often smooth on the veins beneath, a transition to 

 L. superhum, which, though credited to Michigan, I have not yet 

 detected here. The new species occurs in three well-defined forms, 

 and I have taken the most highly developed form, although not 

 ; the type. 



Lilium 



Differs in having the stem end abruptly at the uppermost node, 

 the inflorescence being composed of an umbel only, of from two to 

 five flowers, from the axils of the leaves of the uppermost node. 



Michigan: Wiard's Crossing, July 9, 1910, Farwell 2i62]/^\ 

 Birmingham, September 7, 1903, Farwell 1261c; Belle Isle, July 

 16, 1892, Farwell 1261; Palmer Park, July 16, 1902, Farwell 1261b; 

 Rochester, July 4, 1896, Farwell 1261a. 



Lilium michiganense imiflonim var. noV. 



The simplest form, in which the stem is continued beyond the 



uppermost whorl of leaves and bears a single, nodding flower. 



Michigan: Wiard's Crossing, July 9, 1910, Farwell 2162}/^; 



