LILY FAMILY. Liliacem. 



Turk's Cap 

 Lily 

 Lilium 

 superbum 

 Buff orange- 

 yellow 

 July-early 

 August 



A less common, but most beautiful spe- 

 cies remarkable for its completely reflexed 

 petals, or rather sepals, which leave the 

 handsome stamens, tipped by the brown 

 anthers, fully exposed to view ; the flower- 

 cup is thickly freckled with brown, and 

 hangs in a half-drooping position. It is 

 also largely fertilized by bees, but is frequently visited 

 by the monarch butterfly (Anosiu plexippus) of a tawny 

 and black color, whose favorite plant is the common 

 milkweed. The light green leaves of this lily hold 

 alternating positions at the upper part of the stem, but 

 are more or less in circles at the lower part. 3-7 feet 

 high. It is oftenest found in wet meadows not very far 

 from the coast, and it is distributed from Me. (rather rare) 

 and Mass., south to N. Car. and Tenn., and west to Minn. 

 A similar species the flowers of which 

 have far less reflexed sepals, with perhaps 

 fewer spots. The leaves are darker green 

 and broader, rather blunt-lance-shaped. 

 2-3 feet high. Commonly found in the 

 dry woods and among the mountains. 

 Va. , south to Fla. and La. 



A Japanese species escaped from gar- 

 dens, and commonly found beside old farm- 

 houses. Its leaves are lance-shaped and 

 Orange-scarlet scat tered along a stiff, straight, cottony, 

 July-August dark . colored 8tem> with black bulblets at 

 the point where they join the plant-stem. The flower 

 sepals are strongly spotted and reflexed. Me. to N. Y. 



Carolina Lily 



Lilium 



superbum, var 

 Carolinianum 

 Buff orange- 

 yellow 

 August 



Tiger Lily 



Lilium 



tigrinum 



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