LILY FAMILY. 448 



Z. ^legans, Pursh. Bogs in the Northern States ; lO-S'^ high, from a 

 bulb ; leaves flat, pale ; flowers rather few ; base of perianth coherent 

 with that of the ovary, the divisions marked with an inversely heart- 

 shaped spot. 



Z. angustifdlius, Watson. Pine barrens, N. Car., S. ; stem hardly 

 bulbous at base, 2' high ; leaves narrow, acute, pale ; seeds linear, not 

 fleshy ; perianth free from the ovary. 



24. AMIANTHIUM, FLY POISON. (Name, from the Greek, al- 

 ludes to the flowers destitute of the spots or glands of Melanthium and 

 Zygadenus.) Flowers summer, turning greenish or purplish with age. 



A. inuscaet6xicum. Gray. Broad-leaved F. Open woods from 

 N. J., S. ; with a rather large bulb at the base of the stem, bearing many 

 broadly linear (I'-l' wide) blunt leaves; raceme dense; flowers rather 

 large ; seeds few, red, and fleshy. 



25. LILIUM, LILY. (The classical Latin name, from the Greek.) 

 The following are the commonest types, wild and cultivated. (Les- 

 sons, Figs. 107, 108, 109, 110, 309.) 



» Perianth funnel-form, the segments oblanceolate ; leaves linear or lance- 

 olate, sessile, or nearly so ; flowers chiefly white in ours. 



■t- Leaves scattered. 



L. longiflbrum, Thunb. Long-floweked White L. Japan and China; 

 lo_;^o high^ with lanceolate leaves, and a single horizontal funnel-form 

 flower, 5' or 0' long, the narrow tubular portion longer than the rathei* 

 widely spreading portion ; leaves shining-green, 5-nerved, linear to lance- 

 olate. Var. ExfMiuM (L. Harr/sii of florists), Easter Lilv, is a rather 

 more showy form used for forcing. 



L. JapSnicum, Thunb. (L. od6rum). Japan White L. Cult, from 

 Japan ; 2° high, with mostly only one flower, which is nodding and 

 larger than in the foregoing, below connivent into a narrower tube, and 

 above with the divisions more widely spreading ; leaves dark green, longer 

 and broader (often |' wide) than the last. L. Brownii is a taller form 

 with larger flowers, more leaves, the flowers often 3 or 4 together, and 

 purple on the outside. 



L. cdndidum, Linn. Common White Lily. From S. Eu. to Persia ; 

 with lanceolate leaves, and few or many, small (2'-3' long), bell-shaped 

 flowers, smooth inside, sometimes double ; stem 2°-3'^, with many spread- 

 ing, mostly linear leaves. Flowers sometimes colored outside. 



•♦- +- Leaves more or less verticillate. 



L. Washingtonianum, Kellogg. Stem 3°-5" high, with many oblanceo- 

 late leaves ; flowers horizontal or nearly so, white but becoming purplish, 

 very fragrant, 2'-4' long, in racemes 1° long ; segments not recurved. 

 Ore. and Cal. 



• * Perianth open- funnel-shaped, nodding, the segments widest below the 

 middle and widely spreading; leaves sessile or short- stalked ; flowers 

 speckled or spotted in ours. 



■*- Leaves sessile. 



L. tigr)num, Ker. Tiger Bulblet-bearing L. Stem 4°-5° high, 

 cottony ; leaves lanceolate, scattered, with bulblets in the axils ; flowers 

 mostly nodding, panicled, numerous, very showy, orange-red, the divis- 

 ions about 4' long, black-spotted inside, the divisions without claws, 

 rolled back. China and Japan. (Lessons, Fig. 110.) 



