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THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



a. Flowers white. 



L. longiflorum. Thunb. Easter lily. One to 4 ft., with scattered long- 

 lanceolate pointed leaves: flowers 5-8 in. long, horizontal, scarcely 

 widened from the base to the middle, fragrant. Japan and China, now 

 much cultivated under glass. Many of the bulbs are grown 

 in the Bermuda Islands, whence the name "Bermuda lily." 

 L. candidum, Linn. Common white lily. Leaves broad- 

 lanceolate, scattered: flowers numerous, 5 in. or less long, 

 widening gradually from the base. Europe. Common in 

 gardens. 



aa. Flowers in shades of yellow or orange. 



L. philadelphicum, Linn. Fig. 488. Flowers 1-3, erect, 

 23 in. long, orange-red and spotted, the divisions separate: 

 leaves whorled. Dry soil. 



L. canadense, Linn. Wild orange-red lily. Wood lily. Two 

 to 5 ft., with leaves in whorls and bulbs producing rhizomes 

 or runners: fls. several or many, erect or horizontal on long 

 stalks, the divisions spreading above the middle, orange or 

 red and spotted. Meadows and swales. 



L. superbum, Linn. Turk's-cap lily. Fig. 489. Very tall, 

 bearing several or many nodding red-orange spotted flowers 

 in a panicle, the segments all pointing backward. Meadows 

 and low grounds. 



L. tigrinum, Ker. Tiger lily. Fig. 31. Four to 5 ft., 

 bearing a loose cottony covering on the stems: leaves sessile, 

 scattered, lanceolate: flowers many, nodding in a panicle, 

 orange-red and black-spotted, the divisions about 4 in. long 

 and rolled back. China and Japan; old gardens. 



488. Lilium 

 philadelphicum. 



Lilium 

 superbum. 



2. TtLIPA. TULIP. 



Low bulbous plants with a few leaves near the ground on the 1-flowered 

 stem: flower large, erect, the 6 divisions erect or flaring: capsule triangular. 

 T. Gesneriana. Linn. Common tulip. Leaves 3-6, broad: peduncle 

 glabrous: divisions of the flower broad at the end, with a 

 very short point in the center: late-blooming tulips, orig- 

 inally from Asia Minor. 



T. suaveolens, Roth. Due Van Thol tulip. Early and 

 dwarf, with fewer leaves, downy peduncle, and acuminate 

 segments. Caspian Sea; common in cultivation. 



3. ERYTHRONIUM. DOG'S-TOOTH VIOLET. 



Low herbs with deep-seated conical bulbs, and scape 

 with 2 leaves near the ground: flower nodding, the 6 divi- 

 490 Erythronium s i ns wide-spreading or recurved, the style long and club- 

 americanum. shaped. Blooming in earliest spring. 



