154 NOTES ON LILIES. 



distinct claw than any variety of Bulbiferum, and wants the cottony 

 pubescence that occurs upon the stem 'and outside of the perianth of 

 all forms of the latter. 



21. L. Medeoloides. A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad., vi., 6, 415; 

 Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat., iii., 156. Maculatum, Thunb., Linn, 

 Trans., ii., 334; Mem. Acad. Petrop., iii., 204, t. 5, fig. 1 ? 

 Oanadense, Thunb., Fl. Jap., 204 ? (a figure of the bulb is given, 

 page 108). Stem, 1 to 2 feet high, slender, smooth, terete, flexuose ; 

 leaves, mostly arranged in a single whorl of seven to fourteen; 

 leaves, above the middle of the stem, oblanceolate, patent, tender, 

 smooth, green, 4 to 6 inches long, 9 to 15 lines broad above the 

 middle, acute, with two to four distinct lateral veins; there are some- 

 times a few scattered leaves above the whorl ; flowers, solitary, or two 

 to three in an umbel; pedicels, short, erect at the top; perianth, 12 

 to 15 lines long, erect, of an open funnel-shape, and brilliant orange- 

 red colour, marked on the inside with a few claret-coloured dots ; 

 segments, lance-shaped, slightly falcate from the base, callous at the 

 tip, channelled, downy, 3 to 4 lines broad in the middle, slightly 

 spathulate at the base; groove, on the keel indistinct, smooth; 

 filaments, half the length of the perianth ; anthers, 4 to 5 lines long ; 

 ovary, club-shaped, 4 lines long; style, erect, a little shorter. 

 Japan, near Hakodadi, C. Wright. The Corean Island, Herschel, 

 in inundated woods, where it flowers in June. Oldham, 873; it 

 approaches most closely to Martagon and Avwiacewn; but is easily 

 distinguished by its erect flowers, i'alcate (not revolute) segments, and 

 short stamens and pistil.* 



22. L. Concolor. Salisb. Parad., t. 47 ; Kunth, Enum. iv., 259 and 

 673; Fisch and Mey. Ind. Sem., 1839, 55. Sinicwn, Lindl. inPaxt. 

 Flow. Gard., vol. ii., Misc. 115, t. 193; Lemaire, 111. Hort., t. 100; 

 Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, t. 1,206. Bulb (see page 106), ovoid, 

 perennial, small ; scales, few, whitish, oblong, acute ; stem, slender, 

 about a foot high, slightly pubescent, suffused with purple ; leaves., 

 20 to 30 in number; ascending, scattered, lance-shaped, of a deep 

 green colour, acute, 2 to 3 inches long, 4 to 6 lines broad in the 

 middle, indistinctly seven-nerved, fringed with papillae on the edges ; 



* An exceedingly distinct species, discovered near Hakodadi, Japan, in the United. 

 States North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captains Kingold and llogers, in 

 185356, and since gathered by Oldham in Herschel Island, one of the members of the^ 

 Korean group. In general habit and foliage it is most like Martagon, but in the shape 

 of the flower and its divisions, it resembles Concolor and Pulchillum. 



_ Owing to the extreme smallness and thinness of its scales, this Lily is an extremely 

 difficult one to introduce from Japan. Many hundred bulbs sent to us have dried up on 

 the voyage. 



So far as our experience goes, the bulbs of Avenaceum and Medeoloides are alike in 

 form and shape, see page 108, but Medeoloides is said to have an erect purple spotted 

 flower, with a broad Martagon-vrhoTled. foliage, its Japanese name, Kuruma Juri, may 

 be translated 2 wheeled or 2 whorled Lily ; it would be as well to suspend judgment on 

 the diversity of these forms till they are bettor kuQWH, at present but few specimens, 

 have flowered in Europe. 



