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NOTES ON LILIES 



called Sausserea, but, by a genus Salisbury meant something quite 

 different to what we usually understand by the name. Kunth and 

 Endlicher place it in a section by itself, which they call Gardiocrinum. 

 There are two geographical races, or sub-species of the plant, one of 

 which inhabits Japan, and the other the Himalayas, and all recent 

 authors, following Zuccarini in Siebold's " Flora Japonica" speak of 

 these as two distinct species. 



1. L. GordifoHum. Thunb. Linn. Trans, ii., 332; Schult. fil. 

 Syst., vii., 420 ; Siebb. et Zucc. Flor. Jap. fasc., iii., 33, t. 13, fig. 2 

 and 14; Kunth, Enum., iv., 268; Miquel Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat., iii., 

 157 ; Hemerocallis Cordata, Thunb. Fl. Jap., 143 ; Gaertn. Fruct., ii., 

 484, t. 179, fig. 5. The bulb (see page 90) of this plant is, in every 

 respect, like that of Gicjanteum, but smaller, and with thicker, more 

 wrinkled, and less regular scales; stem, 3 to 4 ft. high, naked 



at the bottom, and with the leaves at 

 ni> st arranged in rosettes, the lowest 

 oneg gained with blood red, the stem- 

 leaves ovate, deeply heart-shaped, and 

 with long stalks; the raceme, in the 

 specimens which I have seen, is not 

 quite a foot long*, contains from four to 

 ten flowers, and, when fully expanded, 

 is from 9 to 14 inches across, the foot- 

 stalks of the flowers being patent, from 

 3 to 8 lines long, with ovate, acute, 

 caducous bracts; perianth, narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, from 4 to 6 inches long, 

 with the tube gradually narrowed from 

 3 or 4 lines at the base ; the segments, 

 which in the upper part are from 6 to 

 9 lines long, being gradually narrowed 

 in the lower two-thirds of their length; stamens, one-third of the 

 length of the perianth ; anthers, yellow, 4 to 6 lines long ; capsule, 

 like that of Giganteum, but more wrinkled. Japan* and the Kurile 

 Islands, at an altitude of from 400 to 600 feet; Oldham, 866; 

 Wilford, 1,000 ; Maximowicz. Blooms in our gardens in the beginning 

 of August. 



L. Glehnii (F. Schmidt), is a variety of the above. 



Heart-shaped leaved Lily 

 (L. Cordifoliuni). 



Description of this Lily, flowered at Kew for the first time in 1877. 



" The flowers are whitish on the exterior, marked with purple on the 

 interior, especially towards the base of the two inner segments. These 

 coloured spots evidently serve as sign posts to insects ; which in visiting 

 the flower for the honey, must necessarily pass between the spots in question 



* Sometimes found 1 foot deep in the soil of the forests of Japan, generally in moist 

 situations. 



