AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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Crimson Erect-flowered Lily 

 (L. Concolor var. Pulchettum). 



flowers, one to three in number; pedicels, somewhat downy, purple, 

 ascending, 1 to 2 inches long; sometimes bracteolated ; perianth, 

 15 to 18 lines long, of a dark crimson 

 colour, without spots on the inside, paler 

 on the outside; segments, broadly fal- 

 cate, lance- shaped, 4 to 9 lines broad in 

 the middle, callous at the tip, somewhat 

 downy, slightly papillose at the base ; 

 groove on the keel, deep, with smooth 

 edges; filaments, half the length of the 

 perianth; anthers, 3 or 4 lines long; 

 pollen, red ; ovary, club-shaped, 5 or 6 

 lines long, deeply furrowed, club-shaped, 

 3 or 4 lines long, shorter than in any 

 other species ; capsule, 1 inch long, 

 obovoid-oblong, obtuse-angled. China ; 

 flowers in the end of June. Concolor, 

 Bot. Mag., 1,165, is a form in which the 

 segments have a few dark spots on the inside, near the base. 



Var. Busckianum, Lodd, Bot. Cab., t. 1,628. Pulclielhim, Rev. 

 Hort., 1862, 131, with a figure. Concolor var. Sinicum, Bot. Mag., 

 t. 6,005. This variety sometimes grows taller, and has a larger and 

 solitary bulb (the scales of which are few and broad), narrower dark 

 green leaves, flowers sometimes four to six in number, segments of 

 the perianth a little broader and of a brilliant crimson on the inner- 

 surface, the lower half of which is covered with numerous scattered 

 small blackish dots; capsule, narrowly obovoid, J inch long, umbili 

 cated at the apex. Southern Siberia. 



Var. L. Partlieneion, Sieb. and .De Vriese, Tuinbow Flora, ii., 341, 

 with a figure, scarcely differs from Buschianum, except in its slenderer 

 habit, shining leaves, and c^espitose bulbs. Japan. Coridion, Sieb. 

 and De Vriese, loc. cit., Duchartre, Obs. 42 ; is the same plant with 

 yellow flowers. 



Var. L. PulcJicUum, Fisch. and Mey., Ind. Sem. Petr., 1839, 56 ; 

 Kunth, Enum, iv., 266, 676; Eegel, Gartenfl., 1860, 81, t. 284, 

 fig. 2. Bulb, ovoid, scarcely an inch long ; stem, very slender, about 

 a foot high ; leaves, 1 2 to 20 in number, narrowly linear, ascending; 

 2 to 2 inches long, and H to 2 lines broad; perianth, often solitary, 

 red, 12 to 15 lines long ; segments, oblanceolate, obtuse, 3 to 5 lines 

 broad in the middle, covered on the lower half with numerous minute 

 blackish dots ; filaments, 5 or 6 lines long ; ovary, 3 or 4 lines long, 

 longer than the style. Eastern Siberia. A yellow-flowered variety 

 is cultivated in Japan, Maximowicz ; on stony hills in Chinese Mon- 

 golia, Meyer and TurczaninQiy, in herb. DC. 



