LILIACEA. 187 
pollen abundant, bright scarlet. Capsule 1} inch long, oblong-pris- 
matic, with six blunt angles. Seeds flat, light brown, 4%; inch across, 
with a rather narrow border. 
This is certainly distinct, at least as a subspecies, from the plant 
called L. pomponium by Kunth, Parlatore, Grenier and Godron, ete., 
which is the L. rubrum of Lamarck: this is a much slenderer plant, 
with narrower leaves crowded below but remote towards the apex of 
the stem; the flowers are produced earlier than in L. pyrenaicum, 
and are of a bright orange-scarlet. The L. rubrum is also not nearly 
so hardy as L. pyrenaicum. 
Yellow Martagon Lily. 
French, Lys des Pyrénées. German, Feuer-Lilie. 
SPECIES 1—LILIUM MARTAGON. Liv. 
Pirate MDXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1768. 
Bulb subglobular, acute, with rather thin narrowly oblong-lan- 
ceolate acute scales. Stem rather stout, minutely puberulent or 
thinly hairy, nearly bare of leaves on the upper part. Leaves (except 
the upper ones) in rather remote whorls of 5 to 8, elliptical or 
elliptical-oblanceolate or -obovate, acute, glabrous; upper leaves and 
those at the base of the peduncles alternate and narrower than the 
others, the uppermost linear-strapshaped. Flowers pendulous, 3 to 8 
or more, all in a lax raceme. Perianth leaves narrowly elliptical- 
oblong, connivent for less than half their length, revolute for the re- 
maining part, pale lurid purple with purplish-black roundish raised 
papille. Style slender, thickened towards the apex, twice as long as 
the ovary, at length curved upwards. 
Not native, but perfectly naturalised in a ecopse by the side of 
Headley Lane, near Mickleham, Surrey. It has occurred in several 
other places, but it does not appear to be so well established any- 
where as at Mickleham, where it might readily be mistaken for a. 
native plant, but for the fact that the copse is of artificial origin ; and 
as the plant grows nowhere else in the neighbourhood, it must have 
been introduced at or after the formation of the copse. 
[England.} Perennial. Late Summer 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a greengage plum, with pale 
yellow fleshy scales. Stem 18 inches to 4 feet high or a little more. 
Leaves few, in distant spreading whorls, the largest 3 to 7 inches 
long, the upper ones much smaller and alternate. Flowers about 14 
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