158 NOTES ON LILIES 



erect, broadly funnel-shaped, 2 to 2 J inches long when fully expanded, 

 inches broad, at first covered with white cobweb-like down on the 

 eoitside ; outer segments, oblong-lance-shaped, 8 or 9 lines long, 

 foroad below the middle, spathulate at the base ; inner ones, ovate- 

 tkraee-shapcd, 12 to 14 lines broad below the middle, distinctly clawed 

 at the base, all of a brilliant orange colour, scarcely tinged with 

 crimson, cuspidate at the apex, somewhat downy, imbricated in the 

 (expanded flower, marked with numerous dots and lamellate papillse ; 

 groove J inch long, very deep, with pilose edges; filaments, 15 to 18 

 lines long; anthers, 4 lines long; pollen, red; ovary, 8 or 9 lines 

 long; style, 12 to 14 lines long; capsule, obovoid, 1J inch long, 

 somewhat acutely angled. Switzerland, France, Northern Italy; 

 long grown in gardens under many forms. Flowers in the beginning 

 of July, after Bulbiferum.* 



25. L. Daviiricum. GawL, Bot. Mag., sub. 1. 1,210; Kunth, Enum., 

 iv., 264; Eegel, Gartenflora, t. 740, and 1872, 295. Pennsytvanicum, 

 G&wl., Bot. Mag., t. 872.Spectabile, Link, Enum., i., 321 ; Reich., 

 Ic. Exot., t. 30 ; Fish, and Mey., Ind. Sem., vi., 58 ; Kunth, Enum., 

 iv.^676; Regel, Gartenfl., t. 349, 1872, 231, with a figure of the 

 bulb. Bulb,t globose, perennial ; scales, small, fiddle- shaped, acute, 

 white, brittle, contracted in the middle : first shoots, narrow, acute, 

 tinged with brown ; stem, 2 or 3 feet high, slender, green, slightly 

 covered with white cobweb-like down in the upper part ; leaves, 20 

 to 50 in number, ascending, sessile, linear, three-nerved, the lower 

 ones 4 or 5 inches long, 3 or 4 lines broad in the middle, never 

 bearing bulbils in the axils; flowers in wild specimens, often solitary, 

 in cultivated plants, few, in umbels or short racemes; pedicels, naked 

 or slightly covered with cobweb-like down ; perianth of a brilliant 

 Ted colour, 2 to 2J inches long when fully expanded, 3 to 4^ inches 

 Abroad; segments, oblong-lance-shaped, 9 to 12 lines broad below the 

 rmiddle, scarcely imbricated in the expanded flower, less dotted and 

 lamellated than in Croceum and Bulbiferum, spathulate at the base; 

 .groove, very deep, 8 or 9 lines long, with pilose edges; filaments, 

 >red, 18 to 21 lines long; anthers, 5 or 6 lines long; pollen, red; 

 ^style, twice the length of the ovary; capsule, 1J to 2 inches long, 

 obtuse-angled. Central and Eastern Siberia, from the Altai 

 Mountains to Kamtschatka, where the bulb is eaten by the natives. 



* The var. Clutixii, collected by Mr. Geo. Maw, comes up later, and flowers earlier than 

 'Croceum, tlie flower-buds are visible from the very earliest stages of its growth. In the 

 wild state it has never more than from 1 to 2 (rarely 3) flowers, while Croceum has 10 to 

 15, and its spike is twice as high as that of Chaixii, which averages 15 inches. It 

 'flowered with Rev. Harper Crowe, who pronounced it to be "very pretty and distinct, 

 and sure to become a favourite." Garden, vol. 10., p. 37. 



The var. Tcnuifolium is very frequently sent out as Catcsba'i, but is closely allied 



-to Dacuricum, amd evidently a very tender and delicate Lily in this country ; the 



bulbs resemble those of a small Croceum, but easily break to pieces, the foliage is narrow, 



- acute, crowded ; the flower much resembles that of Croceum : it is not easily cultivated. 



tf For figures of these curious bulbs, see pages 104, 105. 



