Wild Flowers East of the Rockies 41 



LILIES; Genus (Lilium). 



All the members of this genus are among our most 

 beautiful flowers. In our range it includes eight spe- 

 cies, of which seven are natives. The two species 

 of Red Lily can readily be recognized because their 

 perianth, or flower funnel, always opens upwards; 

 the divisions of these perianths at their bases are 

 very slender and stem-like in contrast with the fol- 

 lowing species whose divisions are united in a tube 

 at the base. Its name is rather misleading for, while 

 it is sometimes found in woods, they will be found 

 blooming most profusely in sandy or brush covered 

 land. One of the prettiest sights of which I know 

 may be seen during the flowering season on the east- 

 ern end of the island of Martha's Vineyard on the 

 cliffs known as Gay Head; as a rule each stalk there 

 bears but a single flower at its summit. This also is 

 true of the Southern Red Lily that is abundant on 

 some of the sandy pine barrens of the southern 

 states. 



WOOD LILY; WILD ORANGE-RED LILY (Lilium 

 philadelphicum) has a leafy stem 1 to 3 feet high, at 

 its summit bearing one to four erect (not pendulous) 

 flowers; the divisions of the perianth are deep or- 

 ange-red, lightening in color at the stem-like bases 

 and profusely spotted with dark brown; the outside 

 of the perianth is dull whitish-green. The leaves are 

 lanceolate, sharply pointed at each end and whorled 

 about the stem in groups of from three to seven. 

 Blooms in July and August in sandy soil from N. E. 

 to Mich, and southwards. 



SOUTHERN RED LILY (L. Catesbaei) has a 

 single bright scarlet, bell-shaped, upright blossom, 

 spotted withiri with purple and yellow. The leaves 

 are narrow and scattered along the stalk. Found 

 from N. C. to Mo. and southwards. 



