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Iberbaceous plants. 



high or more ; leaves lanceolate, scattered ; flowers orange- 

 red , spotted with black, 

 segments of the peri- 

 anth recurved ; one 

 of the most popular 

 and showy lilies with 

 flowers in broad, loose 

 panicles. Panther lily 

 (L. pardalinum), tall 

 and slender, from four 

 to seven feet high, with 

 several crowded whorls 

 of large, lanceolate 

 leaves, and a long ra- 

 ceme of bright orange- 

 colored , purpl e - spot- 

 ted, nodding flowers ; 

 segments of perianth 

 rolled back. Scarlet 

 lily (L. tenuifolium) 

 is one of the smallest 

 but not least elegant species, growing about a foot high, 

 with very leafy stems bearing one or two bright scarlet 

 flowers; leaves linear, very numerous. Grown in patches 

 in rockeries or on the margins of shrubberies, it forms a 

 glowing mass of flowers in July. 



Turk's-cap lily (L. Martagon), stems three or four 

 feet high with distant whorls of oblong-lanceolate leaves ; 

 flowers in a Jong panicle violet-purple, sometimes pure 

 white, small, nodding; segments of the perianth rolled 

 back. A woodland plant growing^ in deep shade ;- fine 



FIQ. 166. PANTHER LILY (LILIUM PARDALINUM). 



