﻿354 Farwell: Notes on MicHKiAX Lillu i:.e 



Rochester, July 14, 1912, Farwell 2848; Parkedale Farm, October 

 5, 1913, FarzuelljS23; Rochester, July 14, 1913, Farwell 284S. 



It is a misnomer to call L. michiganense, as is usually done here, 

 "the wild yellow lily" as the flowers are never yellow; the buds 

 are at first green, then yellow (some, however, never show any 

 sign of yellow externally), and finally red; the flowers when opened 

 are orange-red externally and on the blade internally, the midvein 

 being orange-yellow, the claw pale yellow or whitish and copiously 

 blotched with crimson spots which extend upward on the blade 

 for one half to two thirds its length. I have included in this 

 species certain forms in which the buds show no yellow color, and 

 the flower has brownish purple instead of crimson spots with orange- 

 red extending down the claw, but in which the leaves are charac- 

 teristic. Further study may prove these forms to be distinct. 

 The segments are recurved to below the middle, often spirally 

 coiled, so that the apex is again ascending. 



Lilium peramoenum sp. nov. 



Similar to L. michiganense, but the leaves are more numerous, 

 eight to sixteen in a whorl, with a corresponding increase in the 

 number of flowers in the inflorescence; the flowers are orange-red 

 throughout, dotted with copious but smaller spots; the leaves are 

 narrower, linear-lanceolate, 10 mm. wide by 9 cm. long to oblong- 

 lanceolate 15 mm. wide by 7 cm. long. 



Michigan: Parkedale Farm, July 19; 1914, Farwell 3726. 

 Elder thickets in rich muck lands. L. michiganense is found 

 usually in poorer soil though it may be in dry fields and on banks 

 or in wet swamps and meadows. Both species range from 1-2 



NOTES ON UNIFOLIUM BIFOLIUM 

 In Rhodora for December, 1914, Mr. Fernald describes a 

 pubescent form of Maianthemum canadense as a new variety (var. 

 interius) and gives its range from Illinois north and northwestward 

 into Canada. He had not seen this pubescent form east of 

 Illinois or Wisconsin. The late Mr. G. H. Hicks collected it at 

 Owosso, Michigan, in 1889, and I found it at Stoney Creek, 

 Michigan, in 1913. Both stations are in the southeastern part 

 of the state, about sixty miles apart. 



