WILD HYACINTH, Quamasia hyacinthina, is an herb, 

 with grass-like root-leaves and a tall scape of blue or 

 white, racemed flowers, with narrow, separate segments. 

 It grows along streams, from Pennsylvania to Alabama 

 and west to Minnesota, in spring. 



STAR-OF-BETHLEHEM, Ornithogalum umbellatum, is 

 somewhat the same, with flowers, white within and green 

 without, clustered in a corymb. The leaves have a light 

 midrib. 



DROOPING STAR-OF-BETHLEHEM, O. nutans, has nod- 

 ding, white, racemed flowers. 



These both bloom in late spring and are Europeans 

 escaped from gardens. 



PLATE III 



TURK'S-CAP LILY, Lilium superbum. Root. A globe- 

 like bulb. Stem. Simple, stout, 3-8 high. Leaves. 

 Lanceolate, in whorls or alternate. Flowers. Ter- 

 minal, 3-40, nodding on long flower-stalks, large, showy, 

 orange-red, purple-dotted. Perianth. Of lanceolate 

 segments, strongly recurved. Stamens (a). Burnt- 

 orange-red. Pistil (b). With a head-like stigma. 

 Seeds. Flat, numerous, horizontal. 



This giant among flowering herbs gives to a midsummer 

 meadow or marsh a truly regal splendor. It is much more 

 beautiful than the Tiger-Lily, which it resembles, for it is 

 much more elegant in line and color. Authorities disagree 

 about the color. I have always found it red. It ranges 

 from Maine to North Carolina and west to Minnesota. 



TIGER-LILY, L. tigrinum, is like the Turk's-Cap, but 

 yellower and coarser. Its stem is stout and almost black, 

 with bulblets growing in the axils of the leaves. It is a 

 native of China and Japan, escaping from gardens in 

 this country and blooming in summer. 



CAROLINA LILY, L. Carolinianum, is also like the 

 Turk's-Cap, with orange-red, nodding flowers and re- 

 curved, pointed segments. It is smaller and more slen- 

 der, and blooms south of Virginia in August. 



Although I am not speaking of many far Western 

 flowers, I cannot refrain from picturing two charming 

 Californians, the Yosemite Tiger-Lily and the Washing- 

 ton Lily. ^ 



