LILY FAMILY. LMacese. 



the base. Rich and dry soil of prairies, and in bogs, O. 

 to Ark., Col., and northwest. 



Southern Similar to L. philadelphicum, but the 



Red Lily linear leaves alternately or irregularly 



Lilium Catesbai distributed. The orange-scarlet flower 

 Orange-scarlet solitary, with widespread wavy-margined 

 divisions, long-clawed at the tip, and 

 madder-purple-spotted at the yellow base. 1-2 feet high. 

 Moist pine-barrens, N. C. to Fla. and Ala. ? west to s. 111., 

 and Mo. 



Yellow The common lily of the north, found 



Meadow Lily most often upon low meadows. The stem 

 or Canada Lily ig s i en( j er or s t ou t, very light green and 

 Canadense smooth, and bears the light green lance- 

 Buff yellow shaped leaves in circles. The stem divides 

 spotted into several branches (really flower-stems) 



purple=brown each of which bearg a pendulous flower, 

 buff yellow on the outside, and a deeper 

 orange-buff spotted purple-brown on the inside. The 

 nectar is protected from the rain by the pendulous posi- 

 tion of the flower-cup ; it is gathered mostly by the 

 wild honey-bee, and the leaf-cutter bee(Megachile), who 

 visit the flower to gather the brown pollen as well. 

 These insects are therefore the most potent means of 

 fertilizing this lily. It grows 2-5 feet high, and fre- 

 quents moist meadows and copses, from Me., south to 

 Ga., and west to Minn. Neb,, and Mo. 



Lilium Canadense is probably the most popular wild 

 lily of our range. However, it certainly does not possess 

 the beauty of color that characterizes the wood lily, nor 

 the subtle delicacy of the Turk's Cap ; but the graceful 

 curves of its pendulous bells are unsurpassed in any wild 

 or cultivated flower, and it must always command the 

 greatest admiration for that matchless quality. Of the 

 three wild lilies this one is also the most prodigal of its 

 charms ; it is not only in the meadow, it is everywhere. 

 Lilium Grayi ^ mountain species confined to the 

 Orange-scarlet Alleghanies. The leaves smooth, broad 

 July-August lance-shaped, acute-pointed, and borne in 

 whorls or circles of 4-8, the lowest generally irregularly 

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