158 NOTES ON LILIES 



erect, broadly funnel-shaped, 2 to 2.V inches lontjf when fully expanded, 

 3 inches broad, at iivst covered with white cobweb-like down on the 

 outside ; outer seg-ments, oblong-lance-shaped, 8 or 9 lines long, 

 broad below the middle, spathulate at the base ; inner ones, ovate- 

 lance-shapcd, 12 to 11 lines broad below the middle, distinctly clawed 

 at the base, all of a brilliant orange colour, scarcely tinged with 

 crimson, cuspidate at the apr^x, somewhat downy, imbricated in the 

 expanded flower, marked with numerous dots and lamellate papilla3 ; 

 gi'oove i- inch long, very deep, with pilose edges; iilaments, 15 to 18 

 lines long; anthers, t lines long; pollen, red; ovary, 8 or *.) lines 

 long; style, 12 to 14 lines long; capsule, obovoid, Ih inch long, 

 somewhat acutely angled. Switzerland, France, Northern Italy ; 

 long grown in gardens under many forms. Flowers in the beginning 

 of July, after BnlhifcrumJ' 



25. />. Ihivun'cum. — Gawl., Bot. Mag., sub. t. 1,2 10 ; Kunth, Enum., 

 iv., 264 ; Kegel, Gartenflora, t. 740, and 1872, 29b.—Pniirsiih-anicHm, 

 Gawl., Bot. Mag., t. 872. — SpcdaJiilc, Link, Enum., i., o21 ; Reich., 

 Ic. Exot., t. 30 ; Fish, and Mey., lud. Sem., vi., 58 ; Kunth, Enum., 

 iv., 676; Kegel, Garteufl., t. 349, 1872, 231, with a figure of the 

 bulb. — Bulb,t globose, perennial ; scales, small, fiddle-shaped, acute, 

 white, brittle, contracted in the middle : first shoots, narrow, acute, 

 tinged with brown ; stem, 2 or 3 feet high, slender, green, slightly 

 covered with white cobweb-like down in the upper part ; leaves, 20 

 to 50 in number, ascending, sessile, linear, three-nerved, the lower 

 ones 4 or 5 inches long, 3 or 4 lines broad in the middle, never 

 bearing bulbils in the axils ; flowers in wild specimens, often solitary, 

 in cultivated plants, few, in umbels or short racemes ; pedicels, naked 

 or slightly covered with cobweb-like down ; perianth of a brilliant 

 red colour, 2 to 2\ inches long when fully expanded, 3 to 4} inches 

 broad; segments, oblong-Iance-shaped, 9 to 12 lines broad below the 

 middle, scarcely imbricated in the expanded flower, less dotted and 

 lamellated than in Croccum and Btilbiferiim, spathulate at the base; 

 groove, very deep, 3 or 9 lines long, with pilose edges; filaments, 

 red, 18 to 21 lines long; anthers, 5 or 6 lines long; pollen, red; 

 style, twice the length of the ovary; capsule, lA to 2 inches long, 

 obtuse-angled. Central and I'Jastern Siberia, from the Altai 

 Mountains to Kamtschatka, where the bulb is eaten, by the natives. 



* The vav. Chaixii, collected l\y J[r. Geo. ]Mn\v, comes up later, ami flowers cnrlicr tliiin 

 Crorrum, the ilower-buds are visible from the vt-ry earliest staj^es of its growth. In tin- 

 wild .'^tate it has never more than from 1 to 2 (rarelj' 3) flowers, while Crucnnn lias 10 to 

 15, and its spike is twice as high as tliat of C/tnixii, which averages 15 inches. It 

 flowered with Kev. Harper Crewe, who pronounced it to be " verj- prett}' and distinct, 

 and sure to be(;ome a favourite." — Gardni. vol. 10., p. 37. 



The var. Tcnuifolima is very frequently sent out as Cateshul, but is closely allied 

 to Dai-nrkuin, and evidently a very tender and delicate I.ily in tins country ; the 

 bulbs resemble those of a small Croccum, bnt easily break to pieces, the foliage is narrow, 

 acute, crowded ; the flower nuich resemljlcs that of Croccum: it is not easily cultivated. 



t For figures of these curious bulb.s, sec pages 104, 105. 



