156 NOTES ON LiUES 



Under this head are included several very distinct forms, horticulturally speaking, 

 viz. : 



1. Concolor, from Japan. This kind has crespitose bulbs, mostly small, i.e., the bulbs 

 have a great tendency to break up and form a cluster, and are said to thrive best when 

 left alone, and not torn asunder and re-planted as single bulbs ; it is rather a difficult 

 Lily to grow, but in very wet summers, and on light soil, it has done well with us. It 

 lias a dwarf habit, scarcely a foot high, with erect light-green foliage, narrow, acute, 

 1 to 1 lines broad, 1 inch long, 3-nerved, very numerous, crowded ; late flowering, with 

 two or three erect crimson star-shaped spotted flowers ; the native name is Shcmi-Juri. 



2. Coridion, in bulb, growth, and habit, similar to the preceding, but the flower is 

 somewhat larger, of a rich yellow, flaked here and there with brown ; the handsomest by 

 far of the group ; its Japanese name is Ki-Fimc-Juri. 



3. Sinicum, but little known in this country ; the Chinese form, growing 2 to 3 feet 

 liigh from a solitary larger bulb, bearing a spike of 4 6 flowers, larger and more heavily 

 spotted than those of the preceding forms ; brought over from China, in 1806, by the 

 Hon. C. Greville, and again by Fortune in 1850 ; figured and described by Salisbury. 



4. Pulchcllum, also known as Buschianum, from Siberia ; a much earlier flowering 

 form, growing 1 to 2 feet high, with a star-shaped crimson flower, very similar to that 

 of Concolor, but with narrower and smaller petals, possessing a solitary bulb, figured at 

 page 106, with sparse arching foliage, 5-nerved, 1^ to 2 lines broad, 1 incn to 2 inches 

 long, and of a deep green colour. The figure arid foliage in the woodcut given (page 155) 

 are those of Piilchcllum, not of Concolor. 



5. Fartkcncwn, a form closely allied, if not identical with, Concolor ; not sufficiently 

 known to me to be acknowledged as a thoroughly distinct form. 



Closely allied to these must be the form of Davidi (Duchartre M.S.), collected in the 

 Manze country of Thibet, 9,000 feet above sea level, in June, 1869. Described as 

 having an orange-coloured star-shaped flower with purple spots, a stem 2| feet high, 

 and foliage like that of TcnuifoUum, but more sparse. 



All these forms are exceedingly graceful for button-hole decoration. 



23. L. Bulbtfcrum (Parkinson, Parad., 37, t. 2}.Specwsum, 433, 

 ex parte; Jacq., Fl. Austr., t. 226 ; Bot. Mag., t. 1,018; Fisch. and 

 Mey., Ind. Sem., 1830, 4; Kunth, Enum., iv., 264, 674; Eegel. 

 Gartenfl., 1872, 231, with a figure of the bulb. Bulb (compare p. 109), 

 ovoid, perennial ; scales, few, broad, acute ; first shoots, broad, obtuse, 

 tinged with red ; stem, 2 to 4 feet high, straight, furrowed, spotted 

 with purple, covered with white cobweb-like down on the upper part ; 

 leaves, fewer and more ascending than in Croceum, the lower ones 

 about 3 inches long and 3 to 6 lines broad in the middle (the upper 

 ones drawn back), and bearing bulbils in the axils ; flowers, in wild 



specimens, one to three in number, in 

 cultivated plants often more numerous, 

 and arranged in an umbel or deltoid 

 raceme ; pedicels, thick, short, spotted 

 with purple ; and covered with a white 

 cob web -like down ; perianth, 2 to 2 

 inches long, erect, scentless, of a bril- 

 liant red colour, often tinged with orange 

 at the bottom ; segments, oblong-spathu- 

 late, 9 to 15 lines broad in the middle, 

 the inner ones less clawed than in Crocewn, 

 all with black dots, and numerous lamellae 



The Umbellate Lily and papillas on the inner surface ; groove, 



(L. UmbeUatum). % inch long, very deep, with pilose edges ; 



