LILIUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



LILIUM 



Japanese L. Hansom. Flowers dark 

 brownish-purple, on stems 5 ft. high. 

 (Garden, 1893, ii. 927.) 



L. dauricum or davuricum (L. 

 fiennsylvanicum). This is often con- 

 fused with L. iimbellatwn. It has 

 orange-scarlet flowers flushed with 

 red and spotted with black. Siberia. 

 (Bot. Mag. tt. 872, 1210; Elwes, 

 Lit. t. 21.) 



L. Delavayi. A native of Yunnan, 

 Western China, distinguished by its 

 long slender rhizomes, slender downy 

 stems 1 to 2 ft. high, rather narrow 

 leaves H to 3 ins. long, and wine-red 

 openly funnel-shaped flowers heavily 

 dotted with brown inside. 



L. Duchartrei. A native of Eastern 

 Tibet and the mountains of W. 

 China. It has small bulbs borne at 

 the end of a long slender root- 

 stock. The very slender stems are 

 2 to 3 ft. high, sparsely furnished 

 with thin lance-shaped leaves 2 to 2i 

 ins. long. The flowers, H to 2 ins. 

 long, are white, spotted inside with 

 reddish-brown, especially near the 

 edges of the segments. (Bot. May. t. 

 8072.) 



L. elegans (L. aurantiacum ; L. 

 Thunbergiamim). Stems 1 to 2 ft. 

 high, with scarlet-orange cup-shaped 

 flowers 4 to 6 ins. across, slightly 

 spotted with purple near the base. 

 (Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 38.) 



There are many fine varieties of 

 L. elegans, all excellent for planting 

 amongst low-growing shrubs or for 

 pot-culture. Amongst the best are 

 Alice Wilson, clear lemon-yellow ; 

 alutaceum, bright apricot, spotted 

 black ; atrosanguineum, deep red, 

 spotted black ; aurantiacum, orange- 

 yellow; Batemannice, clear apricot- 

 red, unspotted ; Horsmo.nni, rich 

 crimson ; Wallacei, rosy - apricot, 

 heavily spotted; and many others, 

 includingflorc pleno, a double-flowered 

 form with deep red blossoms. 



L. Fargesi. This species was 

 collected with many others in W. 

 China by Father Farges, after whom 

 it is named. It has small ovoid bulbs, 

 slender stems about 1 ft. high, having 

 linear leaves 6 to 7 ins. long, and 

 yellow purple-spotted flowers with 

 much-reflexed segments. 



L. formosum. A native of the 

 mountains of Western China. It 

 grows about 3 ft. high, and has lance- 

 shaped leaves about 6 ins. long. The 

 white flowers are broadly funnel- 

 shaped, 6 to 7 ins. long, and the seg- 

 ments spreading only towards the 

 tips. 



L. giganteum. A magnificent Lily 

 from the high mountain forests of 

 Hupeh and Yunnan, China. It has 



Fio. ns.-Lilium giganteum, aeed-pod. 



large bulbs, and stems from 6 to 14 ft. 

 high, with heart-shaped ovate leaves, 

 gradually becoming smaller as they 

 ascend the stems. Flowers 5 to 6 

 ins. long, tubular, white, washed with 

 violet-purple in the throat, and 

 sweetly scented. (Bot. Mag. t. 4673 ; 

 Ehves, Lil. t. 21.) The variety yun~ 

 nanense is very hardy, and has larger 



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