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KOTES ON LILIES 



bulb witli open scales, and a reduced sketcli of a freshly dug speci- 

 men, in wliicli the curved flesliy scales are closely imbricate. Tlie> 

 bulbs of this plant arc extremely variable in colour, varying from 

 white to deep purplish-crimson, especially in light porous soils. Thia 

 plant has been largely propagated from seeds by the Dutch growers, 

 and formerly by Mr. Groom, Messrs. Henderson & Son, and other 

 bulb cultivators in this country ; hence we find ammerous minor 

 difierences in gTowth and colour of the flowers. 



L. Auratum. — The bulbs of this variable species are as large* as, 

 and similar in colour, shape, and structure to, those of the last-named 

 plant, a fact which goes some way to prove their near alliance, 

 especially when we find this more fully proved by the fact of these 

 two species having h3'bridised together, the beautiful Farlananni being 

 the offspring of these two species, as also was an earlier hybrid called 

 rurity, certificated some years ago by the Royal Horticultural Society 



at South Kensinsfton. 



SUB-GENUS IV. 



ISOLTKION. 



L. Fhiladelphicnm. — Mr. 

 Baker describes the bulbs 

 of this plant as '' small, 

 annual, stoloniferous; scades- 

 fragile, thick, nearly club- 

 shaped," and I have else- 

 where found them described 



as beino; produced in a rhi- 

 ... 



zomatous manner m their 

 Canadian and Carolinian 

 habitats ; my figure was 

 made from a specimen 

 selected from a small impor- 

 tation of fifty or one hundred 

 I'oots, and represents a full- 

 sized bulb ; I saw no traces 

 of rhizomatous growth, but 

 it is possible .that they had 

 been broken up before tran- 

 sit, previous to their having 

 been counted and invoiced. 



L. Philaddjiliicum (C';iu;ul;i and N. United States) ; 

 natural size ; from an imported bull) ; colour, 

 white or yellowish. 



* Bulbs of Auratum vary mucli in size and shape, generaHy they are of a whitish or 

 yellow colour, on exposure to air getting a pink or reddish brown tint, as compared with 

 the ]ireceding species, the scales are more nnmerous, of a much closer texture, more 

 compact, more acute at the tip, .and shorter as to length ; they overlap in several 

 tiers before reaching the summit of the Inilb, whicli is fliittencd. In Auratum the 

 tendency is to extend its grov>th laterally, in Spcciosuvi vertically. 



