RED 



plant in a shaded bog, where its delicately tinted flowers nodded 

 almost undetected under bending ferns and masses of false helle- 

 bore. 



WOOD LILY. WILD RED LILY. 



Lilium Philadelphicum. Lily Family. 



Stem. Two to three feet high. Leaves. Whorled or scattered ; nar- 

 rowly lance-shaped. Flower. Erect ; orange-red or scarlet, spotted with 

 purple. Perianth. Of six erect narrowly clawed sepals, with nectar-bearing 

 furrows at their base. Stamens. Six. Pistil. One, with three-lobed 

 stigma. 



Here and there in the shadowy woods is a vivid dash of color 

 made by some wild red lily which has caught a stray sunbeam in 

 its glowing cup. The purple spots on its sepals guide the greedy 

 bee to the nectar at their base ; we too can take the hint and 

 reap a sweet reward if we will, after which we are more in sym- 

 pathy with those eager, humming bees. 



This erect, deep-hued flower is so different from its nodding 

 sister of the meadows, that we wonder that the two should be so 

 often confused. When seen away from its surroundings it has 

 less charms perhaps than either the yellow or the Turk's-cap lily ; 

 but when it rears itself in the cool depths of its woodland home 

 we feel the uniqueness of its beauty. 



TURK'S CAP LILY. 



[PI. CXXIl 



Lilium sriperbum. Lily Family. 



Stem. Three to seven feet high. Leaves. Lance-shaped ; the lower 

 whorled. Flowers. Orange or scarlet, with purple spots within; three 

 inches long ; from three to forty growing in pyramidal clusters. Perianth. 

 Of six strongly recurved sepals. Stamens. Six, with long anthers. 

 Pistil. One, with a three-lobed stigma. 



" Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 

 They toil not, neither do they spin ; 



And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory 

 Was not arrayed like one of these." 



How they come back to us, the beautiful hackneyed lines, 

 and flash into our memories with new significance of meaning 



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