LILIUM 



THE BT^LB 1U)()K 



LILIUM 



purple, petals slightly recurved. An 

 elegant species. N.W. America. 

 {Bot. Mag. t. 259.) 



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Yin.lZl.—Liliuncandidum. (\.) 



li. chalcedonicum. — A well-known 

 "Turk's Cap'' LUy, 2 to 3 ft. high, 

 with bright scarlet flowers having the 

 petals rolled back {Bot. Mag. t. 30 ; 

 Elwes, Lil. t. 43). 



This species has been crossed ^vith 

 L. excdsiim, and jjroduced a hybrid 

 called Bee rend (Card. 1895, 11). 



Ij. columbianvun (L. nitidom). — 

 This resembles a small L. Ilumholdti. 

 Flowers drooping, reddish -orange or 

 yellow, with reflexed petals spotted 

 with red purple. Oregon and British 

 Columbia. (Elu'es, Lil. t.3\.) 



L. concolor (L. sinicum). — Flowers 

 bright scarlet spotted with deep 

 brown purple at the base. China 

 and Japan. (BrA. Mag. t. llGo; 

 Elives, Lil. t. 185.) 



There are several varieties, such as 

 Buschianitm, bright scarlet spotted 

 with black ; Coridion, bright yellow 

 spotted with brown; Bart/ieneion, 



orange-yellow with faint spots ; pul- 

 rhellum, scarlet crimson, spotted 

 black ; lutei/m, yellow spotted purjjle- 

 red, 



Ij. cordifoliiun. — Flowers tubular, 

 white spotted with purple brown at 

 the base, and borne on stems 3 to 4 

 ft. high. Leaves broadly heart-shaped, 

 ovate, with long stalks. This J apanese 

 species is like a dwarf form of the 

 Himalayan L. giganteum. {Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6637; Elwe.<i, Lil. t. 1.) L. Glehni, 

 from the Island of Sachalin, is similar 

 to L. cordifoliiim, but has more 

 numerous and smaller flowers. 



L. croceiun. — This is the well- 

 known orange or Safi"ron Lily of the 



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European Alps. It has cobwebby 

 stems 3 to 6 ft. high, golden orange 

 funnel-shaped flowers, sometimes 

 tinted with scarlet and spotted with 

 purple at the base. {Bot. Mag. t, 

 36, as Ij. bulbiferum.) 



li. DaLhansoni. — A hybrid between 

 the European L. dalmaticum and the 



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