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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Lilii 



itinued. 



L. c. peregrinum (foreign). /. rather smaller than those of the 

 type; divisions a little narrower. I. also narrower and fewer. 

 The whole plant more slender in habit. SYM. L. pereijnnum 

 (under which name it is figured in S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 367). 



L. C. spicatum (spicate). A garden form, with petaloid white 

 bracts. 



Fio. 415. FLOWER-STEM OF LILIUM CANDIDUM. 



L. o. striatum (striated). /. having the segments striped with 

 purple externally. (F. d. S. 735.) 



L. carniolicum (Carniolian). fl. bright orange-yellow, passing 

 sometimes into scarlet, liin. to 2in. long ; peduncles 2in. to 3in. 

 long. June and July. I. thirty to forty, always scattered, much- 

 ascending, linear-lanceolate, acute, the edge minutely ciliated. 

 Stem 2ft. to 3ft. high, stout, erect. Bulb ovoid, with lanceolate 

 scales lin. deep. South Europe, &c. 



L. carolinianum (Carolina). A synonym of L. superbum caro- 

 linianum. 



L. Catesbsei (Catesby's).* /. bright orange-red, copiously spotted 

 with purple, solitary, Sin. to 4in. long. Summer. I. never 

 whorled, twenty to thirty, ascending, sessile ; lower ones lanceo- 

 late, acute ; the upper ones growing gradually smaller and nar- 

 rower, and ceasing from lin. to 2in. below the flower. Stem 1ft. 

 to 2ft. high, slender, erect, straight. North America. (B. M. 

 259 ; L. B. C. 807 ; S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 185.) 



L. chalcedonicum (Chalcedonian).* fl. bright scarlet, rarely 

 yellowish, from one to six, sub-corymbose, pendulous ; peduncles 

 2in. to 4in. long. Summer. I., at the flowering time, fifty to 

 eighty, lower ones sub-patent, upper ones ascending, all scattered, 

 linear. Stem stiff, erect, 2ft. to 3ft. high, striated. Greece, 1796. 

 See Fig. 416. (B. M. 30 ; F. d. S. 2160.) An old and well-known 

 garden favourite. There is a very desirable form, majus ; and 

 another, grcecum, having smaller flowers, but a taller habit 

 than the type. 



Ii. colchicum (Colchican). A synonym of L. monadelphum 

 Szovityianum. 



L. columbianum (British Columbian), fl. two or three, umbel- 

 late, on slender pedicels 2in. to 4in. long ; perianth of a splendid 

 reddish-orange, liin. to 2in. long, the lanceolate segments dotted 

 with purple and reflexed. I. few ; lower ones disposed in four or 

 five-leaved whorls ; upper ones sparse, oblanceolate, acute, liin. 

 to 2m. long, about iin. broad. Stem lift, to 2ft. high, slender, 

 glabrous. Oregon, British Columbia, 1872. 



L. concolor (one-coloured). /Z. bright scarlet, liin. to 2in. long, 



Iiilium continued. 



disposed in corymbs of five or six ; peduncles erecto-patent. 

 Summer. I. twenty to thirty at the flowering time, scattered 

 irregularly, spreading, lanceolate, the lower ones Sin. to 4in. long, 

 narrowed to both ends. Stem 1ft. to 3ft. high, erect, sub-terete, 

 obscurely pubescent. Bulb ovoid, about lin. deep. China, 1806. 

 (B. M. 1165.) SVN. L. sinicum (F. d. S. 1206 ; I. H. 100). 



L. C. Buschianum (Busch's).* /. splendid scarlet, lower portion 

 of segments bearing numerous small black spots. I. narrow, deep 

 green. Southern Siberia. (L. B. C. 1628; B. M. 6005, under 

 name of L. c. sinicum.) 



L. c. Corldion (Coridion). fl. bright yellow, scattered over, 



Erincipally on the lower half of the face, with distinct reddish- 

 rown spots, solitary. Japan. (B. G. 885.) 



L. C. Fartheneion (Partheneion). A. bright red-yellow, faintly 

 spotted on the face, solitary. Japan. 



FIG. 416. FLOWER-STEM OF LILIUM CHALCEDONICUM. 



L. c. pulchellum (pretty). /. bright scarlet, with a few faint 

 spots of black, erect, twelve to fourteen lines long, solitary in the 

 wild plants, but produced in half-dozens under cultivation. 

 I. twenty to thirty at the flowering time, scattered irregularly, 



h, 



narrow-linear, ascending. Steins slender, 6in. to 12in. hig 

 slihtly sulcate. Bulb ov 



les few, fleshy, ovate, snow-white. Mongolia, &c., 1834. 



A very pretty little variety, rarely seen in cultivation. SYN. 



L. pulehellum. See Fig. 417. (R. G. I860, 284, Fig. 2.) 

 L. c. sinicum (Chinese). A synonym of L. c. Buschianum. 

 Ii. cordifolium (heart-shape-leaved).* fl. white, yellow, purple ; 



perianth narrow, funnel-shaped ; racemes four to ten-flowered ; 



pedicels floriferous. spreading; anthers yellow. August. I., 



primordial ones tinged with blood-colour ; stem ones deeply 



cordate, on long petioles. Stem 3ft. to 4ft. high. Japan, 1853. 



SYN. firaumNUM cordata. 



