LILIUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



LILIUM 



L. auratum. Flowers 6 to 8 ins. 

 across, pure white, in June and July. 

 Japan. 



being more or less spotted with 

 crimson ; tricolor, very robust habit 

 and large flowers without any brown 

 dots, but with copious spots and 

 papillae. 



Fio. 227.-Liwm Alexandra. (J.) 



L. auratum. This is the "Golden 

 Lily of Japan." It grows 2 to 6 ft. 

 high, and has ivory-white flowers 9 

 to 12 ins. across, each petal having a 

 broad bright yellow band down the 

 centre, and numerous deep purple 

 blotches on the inner surface, the 

 basal portion being covered with 

 stiffish purple hairs or papillae. (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5338; Fl. d. Serr. 1528, 31 ; 

 Elwes, Lil. t. 15.) 



There are many forms of L. aura- 

 tum, the best known being platy- 

 phyllum, with richly-spotted broad- 

 petalled flowers about 1 ft. across ; 

 virginale, very similar but spotless ; 

 rubro-vittatum, with a red band down 

 the centre of the petals ; Wittei, pure 

 white, without spots, but banded with 

 yellow, and sometimes tipped with 

 reddish-brown ; picttim, finely spotted 

 crimson-tipped petals ; Parkmanni, 

 something like rubro-vittatum, but 



FIG. 228. Lilium auratum. 



L. Bakeri. A native of the sandy 

 woods of Washington Territory and 

 S. British Columbia. It has ovoid 

 bulbs exactly like those of L. cana- 

 dense, about 5 ins. in circumference. 

 The rather stout roundish stems are 

 2 to 6 ft. high, and the bright green 

 lanceolate leaves are mostly in whorls. 

 The orange-red flowers, about H ins. 

 long, are thickly spotted with maroon 

 in the lower half. 



L. Bakerianum. This species is 

 found at an elevation of 4000 ft. on 

 the Shan Hills in Upper Burma, and 

 at 6000 ft. in Yunnan, China. It 

 grows 2 to 4 ft. high, and has narrow 

 stalkless leaves, densely pubescent 

 beneath. The broadly funnel-shaped 

 flowers about 4 ins. long, are creamy- 

 white, copiously spotted with brown 

 inside towards the base. Best grown 

 in a greenhouse. 



L. Batemanniae. This is now 



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