LILIUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



LILIUM 



purple, petals slightly recurved. An 

 elegant species. N.W. America. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 259.) 



Fio. 231. Lilium candid-: 



L. chalcedonicum. A well-known 

 "Turk's Cap" Lily, 2 to 3 ft. high, 

 with bright scarlet flowers having the 

 petals rolled back (Sot. Mag. t. 30 ; 

 Elwes, Lit. t. 43). 



This species has been crossed with 

 L. excelsum, and produced a hybrid 

 called Beerensi (Gard. 1895, 11). 



L. columbianum (L. nitidum). 

 This resembles a small L. Humbddti. 

 Flowers drooping, reddish-orange or 

 yellow, with reflexed petals spotted 

 with red purple. Oregon and British 

 Columbia. (Elwes, Lil. t. 31.) 



L. concolor (L. sinicum). Flowers 

 bright scarlet spotted with deep 

 brown purple at the base. China 

 and Japan. (Bot. Mag. t. 1165; 

 Elwes, Lil. t. 185.) 



There are several varieties, such as 

 Bmchianum, bright scarlet spotted 

 with black; Coridion, bright yellow 

 spotted with brown; Partheneion, 



orange-yellow with faint spots; pul- 

 chellum, scarlet crimson, spotted 

 black ; liiteum, yellow spotted purple- 

 red. 



L, cordifolium. Flowers tubular, 

 white spotted with purple brown at 

 the base, and borne on stems 3 to 4 

 ft. high. Leaves broadly heart-shaped, 

 ovate, with long stalks. This J apanese 

 species is like a dwarf form of the 

 Himalayan L. giganteum. (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6637 ; Ehces, Lil. t. 1.) L. Glehni, 

 from the Island of Sachalin, is similar 

 to L. cordifolium, but has more 

 numerous and smaller flowers. 



L. croceum. This is the well- 

 known orange or Saffron Lily of the 



336 



FIG. 232. Lilium croceum. 



European Alps. It has cobwebby 

 stems 3 to 6 ft. high, golden orange 

 funnel-shaped flowers, sometimes 

 tinted with scarlet and spotted with 

 purple at the base. (Bot. Mag. t. 

 36. as L. bulbiferum.) 



L. Dalhansonl. A hybrid between 

 the European L. dalmaticum and the 



