AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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arrival, and although they were very variable in size, I noted none 

 in which there was a tendency to have the scales arranged bulb- 

 fashion around a vertical root-stock ; indeed, the bulbs are elongated 

 just as in WasJiingtonianum, only narrow, fleshy, ivory-white, jointed 

 scales are here substituted for thin, lance-shaped ones. 



L. Superbum. A stately bog Lily, likely to become a permanent 

 inmate of our garden. Mr. Baker- describes the bulb as being 

 "large, casspitose, globose perennial; scales numerous, acute, closely 



L. Superbum (America Eastern United States) ; from a cultivated specimen. 1. Bulb, 

 natural size. 2. Rhizome-bearing bulbs, about one-half natural size. 3 and 4. 

 Variable entire scales. 5. Ditto, jointed scales, section, &c. Colour, white, 

 delicately suffused with salmon pink. 



imbricated, tinged with red.* Carol inianum has bulbs somewhat 

 similar, but with more numerous, thinner, more acute scales, which 

 become richly pink on exposure to light. 



L. Pardalinum has bulbs quite distinct, yet rhizomatous, zigzagged, 

 forming little mat-like masses of roundish oblate bulbs, and thick, 

 scaly rhizomes. The bulb scales of this Lily are in some specimens 

 almost all jointed near the base, and can easily be rubbed off. 



* This description might lead to the inference that the bulb of Superbum was not 

 rhizomatous, whereas it is so exactly like that of Canadense that it would probably be 

 impossible to separate the species, were a lot of bulbs of each kind mixed together. The 

 scales in Superbum are perhaps a little stouter and blunter, and embrace the rhizome 

 more fully, whereas in Canadense they are rather superimposed. 



