LILIACEAE. 



5. Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Asa Gray's 

 Lily. (Fig. 1007.) 



Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 256. 1879. 



Rootstock bearing small subglobose bulbs with 

 thick ovate scales. Stem slender, 2-3 high; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base. 2 / -4 / long, l /2 f -\' wide, 

 verticillate in 3's-8's or the lowest commonly 

 smaller and scattered, all finely roughened on the 

 veins beneath; flowers 1-3, long-peduncled, spread- 

 ing or slightly drooping, 2 / ~3 / long, red or tinged 

 with yellow at the base; perianth-segments oblong- 

 spatulate, not clawed, acute, spotted; capsule fig- 

 shaped, about \ l / 2 ' high. 



Peaks of Otter, Virginia, and on the higher moun- 

 tain summits in North Carolina. July-Aug. 



6. Lilium superbum L. Turk 's-cap Lily. (Fig. 1008.) 



Lilium superbum L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 434. 1762. 



Bulbs globose, i / -2 / in diameter, borne on 

 short rootstocks, their scales white, thick, ovate. 

 Stem stout or slender, 3-8 high; leaves lan- 

 ceolate or linear-lanceolate, smooth on both 

 sides, acuminate at both ends, 2 / -6 / long, %'- 

 \y 2 ' wide, verlicillate in 3's-8's or the upper al- 

 ternate, the veinlets not prominently anastomo- 

 sing; flowers orange, orange-yellow or rarely 

 red, 3-40, or rarely solitary, nodding, long-pe- 

 duncled, forming, when numerous, a large pan- 

 icle; perianth-segments 2^ / -4 / long, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, purple-spotted, at length usually 

 strongly recurved from below the middle; cap- 

 sule obovoid, i%'-z' high. 



" In meadows and marshes, Maine to Ontario and 

 Minnesota, south to North Carolina and Tennessee. 

 Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. July-Aug. 



7. Lilium Carolinianum Michx. Carolina 

 Lily. (Fig. 1009.) 



Lilium Carolinianum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 197 



Lilium superbum var. Carolinianum Chapm. 1*1. S. 

 States, 484. 1860. 



Bulbs borne on short rootstocks, globose, i'-i' in 

 diameter, composed of numerous fleshy scales. Stem 

 2-3 high, slender; leaves oblauceolate or obovate, 

 smooth, verticillate or the upper and lower alternate, 

 acute, obtuse or short-acuminate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, the veiulets prominently anasto- 

 mosing; flowers 1-3, orange-red, 3 / -4 / long, long- 

 peduncled, nodding; perianth-segments lanceolate, 

 acuminate, purple-spotted below, strong!}' arched 

 backward with their tips sometimes counivent. 





In dry woods, Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. 

 cends to 3500 ft. in Virginia. Aug. 





