SECTION VII 

 YELLOW TO ORANGE FLOWERS 



WESTERN SKUNK CABBAGE 



Lysichiton kamtschatcense. Arum Family 



Rootstock: horizontal, thick. Leaves: oblong, acute. Flowers: per- 

 fect, crowded, covering the spadix, spathe with a broad acute blade nar- 

 rowed to a sheathing petiole. Fruit: fleshy berries immersed in the 

 spongy axis of the spadix, seeds large. 



This evil-smelling marsh herb has such handsome foliage 

 and glorious lemon-yellow spathes enveloping the fleshy 

 spikes of tiny flowers, that it always attracts the eye of the 

 traveller. It resembles a huge Arum Lily, with the differ- 

 ence that in the Western Skunk Cabbage the spathe is erect 

 and pointed, extends somewhat over the flower spike, and 

 is not curled back at the top, as in the case of the white 

 Arum Lily. 



MOUNTAIN LILY 

 Lilium montanum. Lily Family 



Bulb composed of narrow, jointed, fleshy scales. Stems: tall, leafy. 

 Leaves: lanceolate, acute at both ends, all verticillate, the margins 

 finely roughened. Flowers: erect, perianth reddish-orange, of six 

 spreading segments, each one gradually narrowed into a claw, purple- 

 spotted below. 



Lilies grow in many climes and are of divers hues. 

 White and yellow, orange and red, tall and stately, they 

 flourish conspicuously in the valleys and on the mountain 

 tops, beneath blazing tropical suns and close beside the eter- 

 nal snows. 



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