LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY 



Lily-of-the- Valley (Convallaria majalis, L.) 



Confined to woods more or less, Lily-of-the- Valley is found in the 

 N. Temperate Zone in Europe, but not in Greece and Northern Asia. 

 In Great Britain it grows in the Peninsula province only in Somerset; 

 in the Channel pro- 

 vince, not in the Isle 

 of Wight or N. 

 Hants; in the Chan- 

 nel, Thames, and 

 Anglia provinces, not 

 in E. Suffolk or 

 Hunts; in the Severn 

 province, cot in W. 

 Gloucs; in S. Wales 

 in Brecon, in N. Wales 

 in Carnarvon, Den- 

 bigh, Flint; in the 

 Trent province, not 

 in S. Lines; in the 

 Mersey province, only 

 in Chester; in the 

 H umber and Tyne 

 provinces, except in 

 Cheviotlancl ; in the 

 Lakes province, ex- 

 cept in the Isle of 

 Man; in Scotland in 

 W. Mid and E. Perth, 

 Forfar, Easterness. 

 From Caithness it 

 ranges elsewhere to 

 Kent and Devon, but is not common. In Cumberland it is found up 

 to 1000 ft. It is naturalized in Scotland and Ireland. 



The Lily-of-the-Valley is familiar enough in the gardens, where it 

 luxuriates in the shady corners, but few know it in its natural habitat, 

 which is entirely woodland. It grows in the dark parts of woods and 

 copses, under trees covering quite a large area and forming extensive 

 beds. 



The leaves are all radical leaves and the aerial stem merely a 



LILY-OF-THE- VALLEY (Convallaria tnajalis, L.) 



