30 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers upright, the petals clawed (see Fig. 94) 



Leaves nearly all clustered, lance-shaped .... Wood Lily no. 94 



Leaves nearly all alternate, narrower . . Western Red Lily no. 95 

 Flowers not upright, usually drooping, the petals not clawed. 



Leaves nearly all clustered 

 Leaves roughened on the veins beneath . . Canada Lily no. 96 

 Leaves quite smooth both sides Turk's Cap Lily no. 97 



Leaves all alternate ; a garden escape Tiger Lily no. 98 



94. Wood Lily. Lilium philadelphicitm. Stem 1^-33^ ft. tall. 

 Leaves in whorls of 3's and 8's, rarely alternate, lanceolate, 

 1-4 in. long, roughened on the margin. Flowers 1-5, erect, 

 2-33/^ in. long, the orange-red spotted petals narrowed into 

 a claw towards the base. Pod 1-2 in. long. July. Maine and 

 Ontario to No. Car. and West Virginia, usually in thickets 

 or meadows and more rarely in woods. Fig. 94. 

 '95. Western Red Lily. Lilium umhellatum. (L. philadd- 

 phiciim andinum.) Somewhat similar to the preceding but 

 with narrower, mostly alternate leaves and pods half as 

 long. July. Ontario to Ohio, Mississippi, and southward, 

 mostly in dry places. 



96. Canada Lily. Lilium canadcnse. Stem 23^-5 ft., the 

 oblong or lanceolate leaves nearly all whorled. Leaves 2-6 in. 

 long, roughened on the margins and on the veins beneath. 

 Flowers drooping, the spotted, recurved, yellow petals not 

 narrowed into a claw towards the base. Pod 13^-2 in. long. 

 June. In woods. Nova Scotia to Georgia and westward. Fig. 



96. There is a red-flowered form of this in western N. Y. 

 and Penn. 



97. Turk's-cap Lily. Lilium superbum. Somewhat like the 

 preceding but mostly taller and larger in all its parts, and 

 differing constantly in the leaves being perfectly smooth, 

 and in the orange-yellow flowers. July-August. Marshes. New 

 Brunswick to No. Car. and westward. 



98. Tiger Lily. Lilium tigrinum. Stem dark colored, 2-5 

 ft. tall. Leaves all alternate, 4-6 in. long, mostly lanceolate 

 or oblong, often the upper ones bearing small bulbs near the 

 base. Flowers drooping, numerous, 3-43<2 in. long, orange- 

 red, the petals much recurved. July. Cultivated, and escaping 

 from gardens. New England, New York, and Penn. Native 

 of China. 



