LTLTUM 



THE BUT.B BOOK 



LILIUM 



wliich is really synonymous with L. 

 eleijans). Stems 1 to 3 ft. high, beo.r- 

 ing large open white flowers suft'used 

 with rose, the lower portion being 

 blotched with rose or carmine-purple, 

 and covered with irregular out- 

 growths. {Bot. Mog. t. 3785; Jiot. 

 Jie,i t. 2000 ; Eltves, Lil. t. 12.) 



There are many fine varieties, the 

 best known hemg—alhum, pure white, 

 with red outside; gJoi-iosoides has 

 much narrower leaves, much-reflexed 

 crisped perianth segments, and 

 scarlet rather than crimson spots and 

 papillae ; Krcetzeri has pure white 

 flowers with a water-green centre ; 

 niacranthum, deep rose; Jfelpo?nene, 

 crimson-purple heavily spotted and 

 edged with white ; criientum, a dwarf 

 form of Melpomene, with highly 

 coloured flowers ; 2mnctatum, white, 

 spotted and shaded pink ; roseum, 

 white washed with rose ; and several 

 others not so well known. 



L. sxxlphureum (L. Wallichianiim 

 t^uperhum). — A fine Burmese Lily, 4 to 

 7 ft. high, with narrow leaves 6 to 9 

 ins. long, and large white funnel- 

 shaped flowers 6 to 7 ins. long, tinted 

 with yellow inside and rose outside. 

 {Bot. Mag. t. 7275). 



This species grows well in a green- 

 house. It produces offsets at the 

 liase, and bulbils in the axils of the 

 upper leaves freely. 



L. superbvun. — This is the " Swamp 

 Lily'"' of N. America. It has creep- 

 ing root-stocks, from which the older 

 bulbs disappear after the develop- 

 ment of the new ones. The stems 

 are from 4 to 10 ft. high, Avith whorls 

 of lance - shaped pointed leaves. 

 From twenty to forty drooping 

 orange-red flowers heavily spotted 

 with purple are borne, the petals 

 being reflexed as in the Turk's Cap 

 Lilies. {Bot. Mag. t. 396; Elwes^, 

 Lit. t. 26.) 



The variety caroliniamim (also 



known as L. autumnal e and L. 

 Michaiixianum) is a dwarf fornx. 



Fig. 2H.—Liliuin snperhnin. (J.) 



L. sutchuenense. — A Chinese 

 species, 2 to 3 ft. high, having flexible 

 speckled stems and bright scarlet or 

 orange-red flowers dotted inside with 

 brown. L. ^>rt^>27/?yi?r»??i (or Biondi) 

 and L. chinense, both with scarlet 

 flowers, are closely related. {Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7715; Flora and Sylva, 

 December 1905.) 



This species is still very rare, but 

 may be easily raised from seeds. It 

 is perhaps safer to gi'ow it in a green- 

 house, but would probably prove more 

 vigorous in the open air in the mildest 

 parts. 



L. taliense. — This is intermediate 

 between L. Martagon and L. jmIi/- 

 phyllum, and comes from the moun- 

 tains of Yunnan, W. China. The 

 slender roughish stems are about 6 ft. 

 high, and are furnished with lance- 

 shaped leaves about 2 ins. long, the 

 upper ones being more or less in 

 circles. The flowers are whitish, 

 about 2 ins. long, and are sometimes 

 .spotted. 



L, tenuifolium. — A Siberian Lilj', 



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