28 NOTES ON LILIES 



"I have bloomed all the known American Lilies this season except 

 L. Catesbcei, and give you briefly the result. 



" Of Eastern Lilies Superbum and Canadense have many varieties very 

 similar, and growing out of difference in soil, climate, &c. Carolinianum 

 (Michauttii) is a variety of Superbum, rare, and quite distinct from the 

 specific form. 



" Philadelphicum varies in colour in different localities, and has but one 

 noted variety, Wansharaicum, which differs from the specific form in 

 larger size and brighter colours, probably owing to richer soil. Catesbai, 

 found in the sandy lands of S. Carolina and Georgia, is a very distinct 

 Lily, dies down in August, and should be transplanted immediately, as it 

 has a growth in the fall like L. Candidum. 



" Of the Western Coast species but four are yet known, although a 

 great many varieties are announced by European florists. 



" Humboldtii and Bloomerianum Ocellatum vary but little in bloom, but 

 the first has very large and the latter small bulbs. 



" Roezlii* is a synonym of the last. 



" Washingionianum and W. Purpureum (Eel River sp.) vary somewhat 

 in colour, depending on differences in soil and climate. 



" Pardalinum Puberulum and Californicum are the same species sent out 

 under different names. Columbianum^ and Parvum are very similar, the 

 first from Oregon and the latter from California. 



" The best botanists on the Pacific Coast acknowledge no other Lilies 

 than those mentioned. A great many of my western Lilies, although 

 planted a year since, have not yet made their appearance ; on examination 

 this fall the bulbs are all right." /. CL Atkinson, Kentucky, U. S., Nov. 

 19, 1877. 



" Two or three years more will be required before the Californian Lilies 

 aii be well cleared up ; if then, the work shall have been done by a bold 

 hand, we may see them all brought under the three species : Huniboldtii, 

 Wasliingtonianum, and Pardalinum. Columbianum certainly, as I have 

 flowered it, is a dwarf Huniboltii from the northern part of the Pacific 

 coast. I am told that all these three species, as we go north, from their 

 southern limit towards Columbia, or from the vicinity of the coast towards 

 the Alpine regions of the Sierras, grow less in stature and assume other 

 variations more or less striking. I much doubt whether the new L. Van. 

 Houttii is anything more than WasJiingtonianum, with a deep coloured and 

 long tubed flower. The variety of L. Superbum which grows in the 

 swamps near the coast of Georgia and Florida, called L. Carolinianum or 

 L. Micliauxii, is chiefly distinguished from the type by broader (even oval) 

 leaves which are fewer and more scattered, and (in the plants which I 

 grow) by darker, almost mahogany coloured flowers. It is as distinct 

 from the typical Superbum as that is from Canadense, but these two species 

 doubtless run together, and run into Pardalinum, their western form. 



* The Eoezliiy described by Baker in his Synopsis has a rhizomatous bulb, and is more 

 nearly allied to Canadense than to the Humboldtii form, all whose bulbs are ovoid and 

 globose. 



t The bulb of L. Columbianum is globose, a small Humboldtii; that of L. Parvum 

 is rhizomatous. 



