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NOTES ON LILIES 



The Oat-scaled Lilj- 



(Z. Avcnaccum). 



usually in a -whorl of six to nine lca.ves at the middle of the stem, 

 a few scattered between the whorl and the raceme, seldom in two 

 whorls or all scattered, horizontal, oblanceo- 

 late, o or 4 inches long, 6 to 18 lines broad 

 above the middle, smooth, tender, similar in 

 texture and venation to those of Martwiou ; 

 flowers, few, sometimes snb-umbellate : 

 bracts, small ; pedicels, nodding at the top, 

 2 or 3 inches long ; perianth, slightly fra- 

 grant, 15 to 18 lines long, of a brilliant 

 yellowish-red ; segments, lance-shapcd, 4 to 

 G lines broad in the middle, hooded at the 

 apex, covered with minute dots on the inside ; 

 groove, smooth and deep; filaments, 9 to 12 

 lines long ; anthers, o or 4 lines long ; ovary, 

 4 or 5 lines long, half the length of the 

 curved style. Kamtschatka, Manchuria, 

 Kurile Islands, and Jai)an ; Pallas, Maxi- 

 mowicz, &c. It has the habit and foliage of Marfagon, and the 

 yellowish-red perianth of Canadense. 



Tliis form dill'i-rs from 2fokohn<lrs, in liaviiig droopini,' flowers with rcflcxed tips 

 (like Trnuifoliion), unsiwttfd, or l)ut little spottcil, and of a ver}- variable tint ; it is 

 found in the north of Japan, near Jlakodadi. 



It was first introduced in lS2it, hy Fisher, to the St. Tetersl mrgh I'.otanic Garden, 

 but soon disn]ipeared. Afterwards by Dr. Kegel in 185(3, and flowered; the colour of 

 the flower varies jnuch from yellow to scarlet. In Hakodadi, the winter is very long, 

 8 or months, and very severe ; the summer, hot and brief. This Lily, might therefore, 

 be very jiroperly introduced into Norway or Switzerlend, with every duince of success. 

 The name Avcnaccum, is given from the ' ' oatdike " appearance of "the scales of the bulb. 



37. L. TIansoni (Leichl.) — Bulb {see page 109), like that of 

 Tigrimon, globose, perennial, compact, whitish ; stem, 3 or 4 feet 

 high, slender, smooth, terete, stout, green; leaves, oblanceolate, 

 acute, green, tender, smooth, with three distinct, oblique, tender, 

 distant, lateral nerves, usually collected in a whorl of eight to twelve 

 patent sessile leaves at the middle of the stem, the others scattered, 

 4 or 5 inches long, 8 to 12 lines broad above the middle, gradually 

 narrowed from the middle to the base ; flowers, 4 to 1 U in number, 

 in a loose raceme, or crowded in an umbel ; pedicels, erect-patent, 

 ] Mo 2 inches long, of a brilliant reddish orange; segments, thick, 

 lance-shaped, 4 or 5 lines broad in the middle, deeply falcate- 

 Tevolute, dotted with purple on the lower half, inside ; groove, long, 

 smooth, very deep; filaments, 10 to 12 lines long, yellow; anthers, 

 nan-ow, 4 or 5 lines long; pollen, yellow; ovary, club-shaped, deeply 

 channelled, 5 or G lines long, a little shorter than the style. Japan, 

 Hort., Leichtlin; coming into growth and flowering amongst the 

 earliest. This species is midway laetween Martagon and Canadense. 



The figure of this Lily in Florist, 1S74, p. I(i3, there miscalled Avcnacnm, gives a 

 very inadei^uate iilea of its beauty, and nmst have been taken from a plant not fully 



