LILY FAMILY. Liliaceas. 



scattered. Flowers spreading horizontally or slightly 

 drooping, deep orange-scarlet, yellow at the base and 

 profusely spotted with madder purple ; the divisions 

 without claws. Stem slender, 2-3 feet high. Peaks of 

 Otter, Va., and on the mountain summits, southwest to 

 N. C. In comparison with the other lilies this flower is 

 small only 1J 2 J inches long, and very rarely more than 

 two flowers are found on a single plant. 

 Turk's Cap A less common, but most beautiful spe- 



Liiy cies remarkable for its completely reflexed 



petals, or rather sepals, which leave the 

 superbum , , *" . _ . J . _ 



Buff orange- handsome stamens, tipped by the brown 



yellow anthers, fully exposed to view ; the flower- 



July-early CU p i s thickly freckled with brown, and 

 August hangs in a half -drooping position. It is 



also largely fertilized by bees, but is frequently visited 

 by the monarch butterfly (Anosia plexippus) of a tawny 

 and black color, whose favorite plant is the common 

 milkweed. The light green leaves of this lily hold 

 alternating positions at the upper part of the stem, but 

 are more or less in circles at the lower part. 3-7 feet 

 high. It is oftenest found in wet meadows not very far 

 from the coast, and it is distributed from Me. (rather rare) 

 and Mass., south to N. Car. and Tenn., and west to Minn. 

 A similar species the flowers of which 

 Carolina Lily ^ ave ^ ar ^ ess reflexed sepals, with perhaps 

 Lilium fewer spots. The leaves are darker green 



Carolinianum and broader, rather blunt-lance-shaped. 

 Buff orange- 2 -3 feet high. Commonly found in the 

 August ^ r y wo ds an( ^ among the mountains. 



Va. , south to Fla. and La. 



Tiger Lily ^- J a P anese species escaped from gar- 



Lilium " dens, and commonly found beside old f arm- 



tigrinum houses. Its leaves are lance-shaped and 



Orange=scarlet scat tered along a. stiff, straight, cottony, 



dark-colored stem, with black bulblets at 



the point where they join the plant-stem. The flower 



sepals are strongly spotted and reflexed. Me. to N. Y. 



A western species similar in some respects 



Erythromum , . , 



mesochoreum to the next following, but the leaves nar- 

 Pale lavender rower linear lance-shaped and not mot- 



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