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WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 



WOOD LILY. Entirely different in appearance 

 is the more reddish Wood Lily or Philadelphia 

 Lily in which the flower is held straight up, and 

 so loses the graceful curves that add so much 

 attractiveness to the species with supended blos- 

 soms. This seems to prefer drier situations than 



WOOD LILY 



the Canada Lily, and is found also in more re- 

 stricted regions, its range being given by the latest 

 authorities as " Maine to Ontario, south to North 

 Carolina and west to Virginia." The petals are 

 generally of a bright red color, being narrowed 

 below so that each flower appears open at the 

 base. The stamens and petals are of about the 



