AND THEIR CULTURE. 



Ill 



arrival, and althougli they were very variable in size, I noted none 

 in which there was a tendency to have the scales arranged bulb- 

 fashion around a vertical root-stock ; indeed, the bulbs are elongated 

 just as in Wasliingtonianurn, only narrow, fleshy, ivorj'-white, jointed 

 scales are here sui3stituted for thin, lance-shaped ones. 



L. Superhum. — A stately bog Lily, likely to become a permanent 

 inmate of our garden. Mr. Baker describes the bulb as being 

 '^ large, caespitose, globose perennial ; scales numerous, acute, closely 



L. ;S'iy7C?-5;«;i (America —Eastern United States) ; from a cultivated specimen. 1. Bulb, 

 natural size. 2. Rhizome-bearin<; bulbs, about one-half natural size. 3 and 4. 

 Variable entire scales, fi. Ditto, jointed scales, section, &c. Colour, white, 

 delicately sufi'used with salmon pink. 



imbricated, tinged with red.* Carol in innnm has bulbs somewhat 



similar, but with more numerous, thinner, more acute scales, Avhich 



become richly pink on exposure to light. 



L. Pdvclcditium. has bulbs quite distinct, yet rhizomatous, zigzagged, 



forming liLtle mat-like masses of roundish oblate bulbs, and thick, 



scaly rhizomes. The bulb scales of this Lily are in some specimens 



almost all jointed near the base, and can easily be rubbed off. 



* This description might lead to the inference that the bulb of Siopcrhum was not 

 rhizomatous, whereas it is so exactly like that of Canadense that it would probaljly be 

 impossible to separate the species, were a lot of bulbs of each kind mixed togetlier. The 

 scales in Stqicrbum are perhaps a little stouter and blunter, and embrace the rhizome 

 more fully, whereas in C^niadensc they are rather superimposed. 



