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NOTES ON LILIE3 



style; capsule, IX inch long; obtuse-anolcd. Lombardy, Istria, 

 Dalmatia, Illyria, and Bosnia ; flowering in June. 



AVi- have received ami flowered a variety of the above Lily without s|'ots in tlie flower 

 (Unkolor) ; wc also have reason to believe that there is a white variety. 





Carniolian or Nodding 



1 Lily 



42. 

 t. 11 

 673; 



The Nankeen Lily 

 (L. Carniolicnm). (L. Tcstaccum). 



L. Testaccum.—Undl, Bot .Reg., 1842, Misc., 51, 1843, 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot., 1843, 221, with a figure; Kunth, Enum., iv., 

 Flore des Serres, t. 39 ; Kegel, Gartenfl., t. 349. — Eoxchinii, 

 Walp. Ann., xi., 110. — IsaheUinum, Kunze, in Mohl. and Schlecht., 

 Bot. Zcit., i., 609. — Bulb, globose, perennial ; stem, 4 or 5 feet high, 

 shghtly downy, tinged with brown ; leaves, sixty to a hundred in 

 number, scattered, very close, linear, ascending, firm, dull, green, 

 three to five-nerved, the lower ones 3 or 4 inches long, 3 or 4 hnes 

 broad in the middle, the margins covered with Avhitish down, the 

 upper ones gradually smaller, 1 to li inches long, pressed close 

 to the stem, more distinct, being at some distance from the flowers ; 

 flowers, three to ten in number, in an umbel or raceme, fragrant ; 

 pedicels, erect-patent, 4 to 6 inches long, nodding at the top, bracted 

 with small white-margined leaves ; perianth, 21 to 3 inches long, dull 

 yellow ; segments, deeply revolute, 9 to 12 lines broad, with a few 

 small reddish dots near the base, slightly lamellate-papillose ; groove, 

 deep, with smooth edges ; filaments, half the length of the perianth ; 

 anthers, 5 or 6 lines long ; pollen, red ; ovary, 6 to 8 lines long, 

 about half the length of the curved style. A garden variety, probably 

 a hybrid between Candkhim and Chalcedonicnm ; flowers in the end 

 of July. 



Tills very gi'acefnl and distinct Lily is said to liavc liecn first noticed at Erfurt, in a 

 bed of secdlinf^s, in lS4d. It has a most pleasant perfume, gi'aceful appearance, and is a 

 general favourite. 



It has been thought not to have a Japanese origin, because no bulbs of it have ever 

 lieen traced as coming over from those Islands of tlie "Western Sea, so productive of new 

 and graceful forms ; but, we have seen more than once, in Japanese drawings executed for 

 ns, years ago, by some of the best artists in Yeddo, as containing "all the Lilies of 

 Japan," forms represented, bearing a veiy strong resemblance to Ejxclsum. It is true 



