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NOTES ON LILIES 



oblate contour, the scales being very few in comparison Avitli those 

 of such bulbs as Bnlhifcrinn {Tliioilctr/iomim), and very much broader. 

 Wo have a small group of so-called species with this type of 

 bulb-growth, such, as Lcichilinii, Maximoiriczii : Tigrinnm Fortinwi, 

 is, so far as I have seen, the largest and most vigorous in bulb- 

 growth, after which we descend to the smaller but similarly shaped 

 bulbs of 2[a.vi'i)Wiric::il (syn. Ti'jriiium Jacundinn), and the still 

 smaller ones of Lcichtlinii, which vary from the size of a Filbert to 

 that of a large Walnut, all being whitish in colour* and having an 

 oblate contour with broad scales. The plants we have enumerated 

 above, together with T. jhre pleno and T. Splendens, are clearly 

 shown to be related by their bulb structure ; and Mr. Baker, in 

 describing Lcichtlinii as a species, on the authority of Dr. Hooker, 

 remarks that it flowers in July in gardens at the same time as 

 Tlijrimim. It seems to me most probable that this plant is a yellow 

 seedling variety, raised in Japanese gardens ; nor is this change of 

 colour remarkable, since we have one or two varieties of the crimson 

 scarlet Chinese or Mongolian Concolor, distinguished by their yellow 

 flowers. 



J J. LcicliUinii. — The bulbs of this plant are described by Mr. Baker 

 as being " small, perennial, globose ; scales few, broad, acute, thick, 

 closely imbricated.^' Leichtlinii Majxis is said by Mr. Baker to be a 

 large and deeply-coloured form of t Maximoiuiadi, of wliicli the 

 Colchester New Plant and. Bulb Company sent me a well- developed 



L. Manmowiczli, cultivated bulb, natural size ; colour, soft yellow, like an Ash-leaf 



Kidney rotato. 



* Keddened by exposure to light, Lcichtlinii is always yellow after exposure. 

 + I cannot endorse this statement. Leiclitlinii J/cjus of Mr. "Wilson is a larger, more 

 robust form of Leiclitlinii, colour yellow. Maximowiczii has the Tiger red colour. 



