LEOPARD LILY (Lilium pardaltnum, Kellogg). Flowers 

 nodding, bright reddish-orange, purple-spotted on the lower 

 part, the tips strongly rolled back, borne in summer in numbers 

 varying from 6 to 25 in loose pyramidal clusters that top stems 

 from 3 to 7 feet high or even more. The lanceolate leaves are 

 usually in whorls, but some are scattered. A mountain plant, 

 most abundant in Central and Northern California in damp 

 ground and along streams, both in the Coast Ranges and the 

 Sierras, but extending north to British Columbia. It is often 

 called Tige. Lily, a term more properly applied to the garden 

 Lilium tigrinum, which it resembles. 



A similar Lily abundant in the canons of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia mountains as well as in the Sierra foothills is Hum- 

 boldt's Lily, Lilium Humboldtii, R & L, also popularly called 

 Tiger Lily. The flowers are rather larger than the Leopard 

 Lily's and the leaves usually in 4 to 6 whorls of 10 to 20 each, 

 and wavy margined. There is also a radical difference in the 

 bulbs, those of the Humboldt Lily being large, from 2 to 6 

 inches thick, while the Leopard Lily springs from mat-like 

 masses of bulbs formed by branchingroot stalks. In the north 

 Humboldt's Lily affects dry, open localities, but in the south 

 it is found in dampish brookside tangles, too. 

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