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THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



a. Flowers white. 



L. longiflorum. Thunb. Easter lily. One to 4 ft., with scattered long- 

 lanceolate pointed leaves: flowers 5-8 in. long, horizontal, scarcely 

 widened from the base to the middle, fragrant. Japan and China, now 

 much cultivated under glass. Many of the bulbs are grown 

 ^ \^ j ft uTT i * n *^ e Bermuda Islands, whence the name "Bermuda lily." 

 L. candidum, Linn. Common white lily. Leaves broad- 

 lanceolate, scattered: flowers numerous, 5 in. or less long, 

 widening gradually from the base. Europe. Common in 

 gardens. 



Lilium 

 philadelphicum. 



aa. Flowers in shades of yellow or orange. 



L. philadelphicum, Linn. Fig. 488. Flowers 1-3, erect, 

 2-3 in. long, orange-red and spotted, the divisions separate: 

 leaves whorled. Dry soil. 



L. canadense, Linn. Wild orange-red lily. Wood lily. Two 

 to 5 ft., with leaves in whorls and bulbs producing rhizomes 

 or runners: fls. several or many, erect or horizontal on long 

 stalks, the divisions spreading above the middle, orange or 

 red and spotted. Meadows and swales. 



L. superbum, Linn. Turk's-cap lily. Fig. 489. Very tall, 

 bearing several or many nodding red-orange spotted flowers 

 in a panicle, the segments all pointing backward. Meadows 

 and low grounds. 



L. tigrinum, Ker. Tiger lily. Fig. 31. Four to 5 ft., 

 bearing a loose cottony covering on the stems: leaves sessile, 

 scattered, lanceolate: flowers many, nodding in a panicle, 

 orange-red and black-spotted, the divisions about 4 in. long 

 and rolled back. China and Japan; old gardens. 



2. TULIPA. Tulip. 



Low bulbous plants with a few leaves near the ground on the 1-flowered 

 stem: flower large, erect, the 6 divisions erect or flaring: capsule triangular. 

 T. Gesneriana. Linn. Common tulip. Leaves 3-6, broad: peduncle 

 glabrous: divisions of the flower broad at the end, with a 

 very short point in the center: late-blooming tulips, orig- 

 inally from Asia Minor. 



T. suaveolens, Roth. Due Van Thol tulip. Early and 

 dwarf, with fewer leaves, downy peduncle, and acuminate 

 segments. Caspian Sea; common in cultivation. 



3. ERYTHRONIUM. Dog's-tooth Violet. 



Low herbs with deep-seated conical bulbs, and scape 

 with 2 leaves near the ground: flower nodding, the 6 divi- 

 490. Erythronium sions wide-spreading or recurved, the style long and club- 

 americanum. shaped. Blooming in earliest spring. 



