7^ NOTES ON LILIES 



appended L. SpertahiJe,* Fisch., found in South Siberia, and common as a 

 garden liower, which in a cultivated state produces niaynificent clusters 

 of flowers of a fine minium red, intermingled with orange ; also, " Lis 

 Avenace," L. Avenacev)n,-\ Fisch., found in Kamschatka, Mantchouria, the 

 Kurile Islands, and Japan, with single blooms of medium size, of a poppy 

 red or orange, lightly reflexed and but little spotted. Europe herself has 

 furnished several new species to the list in the course of the present 

 century. Sixty years ago, Bernhardi made known the Carniolian Lily, 

 L. Carniolirnm, found in Carniolia and Istria, and a close neighbour 

 of Pompoaiinn, with pendulous red and tawny-coloured flowers, with 

 prominent lineations of a reddish brown. In 1842 Ebel found the "Lis. 

 grele," L. Grarile,^ Eb., in Montenegro, but saw it in fruit only ; lastly, 

 in 1844, M. Grisebach discovered the Albanian Lily, L. Alhanictim (the 

 name of which indicates the habitat), which is closely connected with 

 the Pyreneau Lily, with a single recurved, pendulous yellow flower ;, 

 and more recently, through M. Max Leichtlin, the blood red Martagon 

 Dalmaticxm has been added to our list. 



Regai'ding the species hitherto discovered from a geograjDical point of 

 view, we may divide North America into two vast regions separated hy 

 the chain of the Rocky Mountains, in other words, into the Atlantic 

 and Pacific regions. In the former, the four species already named — 

 Sicperhuui, Canadense. Philadelphicum, and Cateshcci — are the only ones as 

 yet described, those more recently discovered must be regarded as mere 

 varieties (?). § Of these the most remarkable are the variety of L. PJiila- 

 (lelphicum, known as Wansharaicitm, or Wansharicinn, from its having- 

 been found in Wanshara County, Wisconsin. It is a remarkably fine and 

 well coloured variety of Pliiladelpliicum in respect of its flowers, but 

 has alternate leaves, not verticillated like the last. On the other hand, 

 the Pacific species, which appear to be more numerous, were, previous to 

 their introduction by M. Leichtlin a short time since, wholly unknown. 

 Three of these species were described in 1863, by Dr. Kellogg, in a 

 scarce work, the " Proceedings of the Natural History Society of St. 

 Francisco." These are the Californian Leopard Lily, L. Pardaliman, 

 Kellogg, with pendulous flowers, orange, with large brown spots, as to 

 the upper half, and a fine red colour on the lower half, without the least 

 fusion or intermixture of colours (and its allied forms P iiberidum and 

 Calijornicmn) ; the Miniature Lily of the Sierra Nevada, L. Parvum, 

 Kellogg, a plant of low stature (?),with five to nine upright blooms of an. 

 orange yellow colour, with deep purple red at the tips, and dotted in the 

 central portions ; the magnificent Lady of Washington Lily, L. Washing, 

 tonionui/i, Kellogg, a splendid plant of the Sierra Nevada, with verticillated 

 leaves and white flowers, of a delicious perfume, which latter assume a 

 purplish-lilac hue. A very fine species, Humboldt's Lily, L. Humholdti, 

 Roezl and Leichtlin, has been recently discovered in the Sierra Nevada by 



* Kow known as Davurkuin. 



+ We consider this i'ornx and Mcdcoloides to be closely allied, the former bears a j-ellow, 

 the latter a red flower. 



X This is still a doul)tful undetemiined form, not yet in the hands of cultivators. 



§ Add, also, tlie very pretty L. CarolinianvM (Micliatixii), introduced to notice by 

 M. Andre ^licliaux in 1803, and otliers mentioned further on. 



