LILY FAMILY. Liliaceae. 



ing brownish with age ; the flowers, like those of thf 

 preceding genus, are polygamous, but small, with si* 

 green sepals. Capsule also like that of Melanthium. 

 Name from vere, truly, and ater, dead black, in allu- 

 sion to the blackening (really turning brown) of the 

 plant upon withering. The plant is poisonous in all 

 parts for sheep .and cattle. It grows 2-7 feet high, in 

 wet meadows and low grounds, everywhere. 

 stout Stem leafy, stout and erect, with grass- 



Stenanthium like leaves. Flower-spike sometimes 2 feet 

 Stenanthium long ; the flowers are also polygamous. 

 gramineum Flower-cup whitish green or white witt 

 White or green . te . 



July-August slx narrow spreading lance-shaped sepals, 

 i inch long. Leaves grasslike. Fruit 

 capsule pointed long-ovate. The name is from 6rev6<s, 

 narrow, and drQo$, flower, alluding to the slender sepals 

 and flower-cluster. 3-5 feet high. Penn. to S. C., west 

 to Ohio and Tenn. 



The lily group is distinguished for its handsome bell- 

 shaped flowers, of six distinct spreading sepals with a 

 honey -bearing groove at the base of each. Flowers per- 

 fect with six prominent stamens, and a long pistil the 

 tip of which is a three-lobed stigma. Fruit an oblong 

 capsule containing many flat seeds. The bulb scaly. 

 The name Latinized from the Greek Xstpiov. 



The most beautifully colored wild lily 

 Wood Lily or . .. .,_ 



Wild Orange- of all wlth bri g nt green leafy stems, 

 Red Lily flower-cup opening upward, and the six 



Lilium sepal divisions narrowing to a stemlike 



Philadelphicum s i en derness toward the base. The color 

 Orange=scarlet 



July varying from orange-scarlet to scarlet- 



orange or paler, and spotted with purple- 

 brown on the inner part of the cup. The sepals do not 

 recurve. From one to three flowers are borne at the 

 branching summit of the plant-stem. A small form 

 common in Nantucket bears a single lighter-colored 

 flower. 1-3 feet high. Dry and sandy soil, common in 

 the borders of thin woods. Me. to N. C., west to Minn 

 and Mo. The var. andinum, a western form, has linear 

 leaves alternately or irregularly distributed on the stem, 

 and generally deeper red flowers. The pod narrowed at 

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