MEADOW LILY 



MEADOW LILY. FIELD LILY. CANADA LILY 



Lilium Canadense 



One of our most beautiful native plants, appearing in 

 low meadows. From Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Minne- 

 sota south to Georgia and Alabama. June-August. 



Bulb. — Composed of many narrow, fleshy, white scales. 



Stem. — Slender, leafy, two to five feet high. 



Leaves. — Either in whorls of four to ten, or alternate; 

 lanceolate, two to six inches long, three-veined, margins 

 and veins roughened; margin entire, apex*acute or acu- 

 minate, sessile. 



Flowers. — Nodding bells, yellow or orange with deeper 

 tones and thickly spotted with dark reddish brown; 

 borne on long slender stems which spring from the summit 

 of the central stalk. 



Perianth. — Of six sepal-petals; each division, two to two 

 and a half inches long, yellow or orange-spotted below, 

 recurved or spreading, with a nectar-bearing groove at its 

 base. 



Stamens. — Six, sitting around the ovary; filaments 

 long, protruding; anthers linear, versatile, opening 

 longitudinally; pollen abundant. 



Pistil. — Ovary three-celled; style long, somewhat club- 

 shaped above; stigma three-lobed. 



Fruit. — Oblong, erect capsule, filled with shining seeds. 



Pollinated by flies and bees. Nectar-bearing. 



"When the tangled cobweb pulls 

 The cornflower's cup awry, — 

 And the lilies tall lean over the wall 

 To bow to the butterfly — 

 It is July." 



"Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, 

 neither do they spin: yet I say unto you that even Solomon in 

 all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." 



Matthew vi, 28-29. 

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