28 NOTES ON LILIES 



"I have bloomed all the known American Lilies this season except 

 L. Cateshai, and g'ive you briefly the result. 



" Of Eastern Lilies Supcrhum and Canadense have many varieties very 

 similar, and growing- out of difference in soil, climate, &c. Garolinianum 

 {MichauxU) is a variety of Stiperhmn, rare, and quite distinct from the 

 specific form, 



" Philadelphicum varies in colour in different localities, and has but one 

 noted variety, Wansharaicum, which differs from the specific form in 

 larger size and brighter colours, probably owing to richer soil. Cateshcei, 

 found in the sandy lands of S. Carolina and Georgia, is a very distinct 

 Lil}-, dies dow^n in August, and should be transplanted immediately, as it 

 has a growth in the fiill like L. CandUlum. 



" Of the Western Coast species but four are yet known, although a 

 great many varieties are announced by European florists. 



''' Humholdtil and Bloomerianum Ocellatum vary but little in bloom, but 

 "the first has very large and the latter small bulbs. 



^^ EoezUi* is a synonym of the last. 



" Wa!^ldngtonianum and W. Purpureum (Eel River sp.) vary somewhat 

 in colour, depending on differences in soil and climate. 



" Pardaliuum Puberulum and Califorrticum are the same species sent out 

 under different names. Colmnliiavumf and Parvum are very similar, the 

 first from Oregon and the latter from California. 



"The best botanists on the Pacific Coast acknowledge no other Lilies 

 than those mentioned. A great many of my western Lilies, although 

 planted a year since, have not yet made their appearance; on examination 

 this fall the bulbs are all right." — /. C. Atkinson, Kentuchi/, TJ. S., Nov. 

 19, 1877. 



" Two or three years more will bo required before the Califoruian Lilies 

 can be well cleared up ; if then, the work shall have been done by a bold 

 hand, we may see them all brought under the three species : Unmholdtii, 

 Washingtonianum, and Pardallnum. Columhiamun certainly, as I have 

 flowered it, is a dwarf Ilumholtii from the northern part of the Pacific 

 coast. I am told that all these three species, as we go north, from their 

 southern limit towards Columbia, or from the vicinity of the coast towards 

 the Alpine regions of the Sierras, grow less in stature and assume other 

 variations more or less striking. I much doubt whether the new L. Van. 

 Ilouttii is anything more than WasJiingionianmn, with a deep coloured and 

 long tubed flower. The variety of L. Superlum which grows in the 

 swamps near the coast of Georgia and Florida, called L. Garolinianum or 

 L. MicJiauxii, is chiefly distinguished from the type by broader (even oval) 

 leaves which are fewer and more scattered, and (in the plants which I 

 grow) by darker, almost mahogany coloured flowers. It is as distinct' 

 lirom the typical Superbum as that is from Canadense, but these two species 

 doubtless run together, and run into Pardalimim, their western form. 



* The lloczlii, described by Baker in liis Synopsis has a rliizoniatous bulb, and is more 

 nearly allied to Canadense than to tlie Ilnmboldlii form, all whose bulbs are ovoid and 

 globose. 



t Tlie bull) of Z. Columlianum is globose, a small Ilumholdtii ; that of L. Parvum 

 is rhizoiuatous. 



