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NOTES ON LILIES 



L. Canaih'iisc. — A variable plant, long known in cultivation, having 

 been figured and desci'ibed Ly Parkinson as long ago as 1G29. Mr. 

 Baker describes the bulbs as " emitting runners 5 to G inches long; 

 scales thick, obtuse, scarcely i- inch long." The bulbs are borne an 

 inch or two apart, on a stout rhizome, and are about 1^ inch in 



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X. Canadcnsc (Canada, United States, f'alil'oniia) ; imported bulb ; natural size ; small 

 figures show rhizomatous luibit of growth and jointed or entire sealed bulbs ; eolour, 

 white, yellow if ex^iosed, rarely suffused with pink. 



diameter. The yellow scales are very variable in shape and size, 

 some being short and rounded, others lengthened and lance-shaped, 

 some few of them being jointed. Canadcnse Farviflorum has its 



bulbs clustered 

 more closely to- 

 gether, something 

 in the way of those 

 of Superhum. 



The pretty little 

 L. Parvuvi has a 

 very distinct bulb, 

 formed of a rhizome 

 2 or 3 inches in 

 length,covered with 

 clustered, white, 

 jointed scales, as 

 shown in our illus- 

 tration. I have seen 



r T> , T n 1 j> \ • 4-11 11 a whole importation 



L. Parmim {= L. Canadoise Parvum) ; imported bulb; i, i iu 



natural size ; colour, ivory white, yellowish if exposed. Ot SUCu bulbs on 



