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NOTES ON LILIES 



number), nearly 



the middle, the upper ones more distant from each other, shorter, 

 and lance-shaped ; flowers, usually solitary (sometimes two to six in 

 horizontal ; perianth, white, frat^rant, narrow ly 

 fuunel-shaped, 5 to 7 inches long ; tube, 

 2 to 3 inches long, scarcely widened above 

 the base ; segments, oblanceolate, obtuse 

 in the expanded flower, falcate in the 

 upper fourth of their length, 12 to 18 

 lines broad at two-thirds of their length 

 from the base ; inner ones broader ; fila- 

 ments, white, 4 or 5 inches long ; anthers. 



Lily 



Long-tubed White Lily The liaiulsoiiu' long-tubed White 



(L. Longiflorum). (L. Eximium). 



yellow, narrow, 6 to 9 hues long ; pollen, yellow ; ovary, 1 to H inches 

 long, and, along with the slightly curved style, scarcely exceeding the 

 stamens in length ; stigma, 4 to 4^ lines in diameter ; capsule, 

 narrow4y oblong, obtuse-angled, umbilicated at the apex. Temperate 

 regions of Japan, Oldham, 734, Maximowuc/, &c. ; China, Fortune,. 

 57, QQ, Reeves; Hong Kong, Capt. Urquhart; Formosa, Wilford,. 

 548 ; Swinhoe ; Oldham, 565 ; Capt. Champion ; Loo-choo Islands, 

 Capt. Beechey, C. Wright, introduced into Europe in 1810.* Of the 



* ;^L Duchartre's ooniparison of these varieties is as follows: — "These splendid flowers- 

 may be grouped, in the tirst instance, according to tlie angle foi'nied by the union of the 

 flower and the stem supi)orting them. The llower of Exiniiuin is at right angles with 

 the stem or ilower-stalk ; while in Loiujifloruni and in LoH'jIfloruln I'akcsima, the 

 flower forms an obtuse angle with the stem, a little more obtuse in the case of the 

 former than in Takxsima. The violet tint of the outer side of the flower suffices to 

 (.listinguish the last mentioned variety, though it should be remembered that this tint, 

 which is very manifest in the young flower-bud, disajjpears in the cxjianded flower on 

 exposure to the light. This violet hue extends throughout the -whole length of the 

 prominent midrib of each division of the flower. The flowers of Lowjijlorum and 

 Eximium are uniformly white. 



The general form of the flower aflbrds distinctive characteis ; thus in Lonr/ijlorum 

 Takcsiiiia the form of the flower is tubular, inversely conical (funnel-shaped), with a 

 ■vnde base, and its divisions are but slightly turned back. The upper portion of the tube 



