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NOTES ON LILIES 



o])lanceolatc, 3 or 4 lines broad ; groove, smooth, distinctly excavated, 

 with smooth edges; filaments, green, 12 to 14 lines long; anthers, 

 3 or 4 lines long; pollen, vermilion-red ; ovaiy, 5 to 6 lines long, a 



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Little Turk's Cap Lily {L. roMptniiun). Flower of The Little Turk's Cap Lily. 



little shorter than the style; capsule, ovoid, ]^ inches long, umbili- 

 cated at the top, somewhat acutely six-angled. Northern Italy and 

 the South of France. It flowers in our gardens at the end of June. 

 — An rfnsti folium, Mill. Diet., No. 6, is a more slender form, with very 

 narrow one-nerved leaves. 



Tar. L. Pyrenaicvm, Gouan. 111. 25; Eed. Lil., t. 145; Reich. Ic. 

 Germ., t. 992 ; Kunth, Enum., iv., 262. — Flavvw, Lam. Gall., iii., 

 283. A more robust variety, with leaves a little broader and distinctly 

 three-nerved, often extending to the base of the raceme; flowers, 

 i/elloii- and larger ; bracts larger and style thicker. Pyrenees — Mar- 

 'tcKjon Littcum non Pundatiim, Parkins, Theat., 35, is a variety which 

 has yellow flowers without dots. 



iMeutiou uiust also be made of a form called Povipotiium Vcrum, collected by Mr- 

 George ^law, 14,000 feet above sea level, in the Maritime Alps, and I'rom Lantosca, near 

 Mentone ; it f;rows from 2 to 3 feet high, and is distinguished from the common garden 

 fonu, liv the l)right scarlet tint of its flowers dotted over with linear arranged dots, and 

 by its numerous, very slender, keeled, crowded, linear leaves; each leaf has a white 

 edge and is somewhat sickle-shaped, with a spiral twist following the course of the sun : 

 its foliage, therefore, has a very i>eculiar appearance, especially when just unfolded, 

 resembling much that of TcnuifoUum, but rather more white edged, like that of some- 

 Yuccas. It is a much more lieautiful form than the iireceding. 



L. Alhanum is a Transylvanian form, exactly like the yellow I'yrenaicum, but with 

 a little larger leaves, and pollen of a ditlerent colour, the odour is sweet, like that of 

 honey, whereas the savour of the gardcTi fonii is rather nauseous ; it occurs in quantities, 

 near Verespatcli ; but the ^laeedonian plant from which Griesbaeh drew his description, 

 referred to under bead of Chalcedonicum, dill'ers somewhat (Leichtlin). 



48. Jj. Chalcedonicum. — Linn. Sp. Plant., 434, ex parte ; Gawl., 

 Bot. Mag., t. 993, non Jacq. — Buhrnm Bijzaidinxmi sive Marfar/ou 

 Constantinopoliianum, Parkins., Parad., o4. — Bulb, ovoid, peren- 

 nial, yellowish ; scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; stem, straight, 

 downy, 3 or 4 feet high, green, tinged with purple ; leaves, 100 or 



