160 NOTES ON LILIES 



Var. 3, Pardinum, Moore, "Florist/' 1861, 121, with a figure. 

 This scarcely differs from var. 2, except in having a taller stem (2 to 

 3 feet), and the flowers few and in an umbel. 



Var. 4, Alutaceum, Baker and Dyer, " Gard Chron.," loc. cit. 

 Thunbergianum Aureum Nigro-maculatuw , Flores des Serres, t. 1,627 : 

 stem, dwarf; leaves about 30 in number ; flowers, solitary ; perianth 

 of a pale apricot colour; inner segments, 12 to 13 lines broad, with 

 numerous purplish dots on the lower half. 



Var. 5, Armeniacum, Baker and Dyer, loc. cit. Stem, about a foot 

 high : leaves, 30 to 40 in number, the lower ones linear ; flowers one 

 or two in number, orange, not dotted, and without lamellae or papillae ; 

 segments 9 to 12 lines broad. 



Var. 6, Citrinum, hort., Wilson, scarcely differs from Armeniacum, 

 except in having the stem 2 to 2^ feet in height, the leaves lance- 

 shaped, and flowers two to three in number. 



Var. 7, Sangmneum, Lindl., " Bot. Reg.," 32,, t. 50. Stem, 1 to 

 1^ feet high ; leaves, about 40 in number, lance-shaped ; flowers, 

 one to two in number ; segments, broad ; blood-red, slightly tinged 1 

 with orange, and with a few small dots near the base ; papillae and 

 lamella) nearly obsolete. 



Var. 8, Atrosanguineum, Baker and Dyer, loc. cit. Coruscans, hort. 

 Stem, 1 to 1 1 feet high ; leaves, lance-shaped ; flowers, usually soli- 

 tary; segments, broad, deep red, with numerous dots on the lower 

 half; papillae and lamellae, numerous and only slightly raised. 

 Hcematochroum, Lernaire, 111. Hort., t. 503, is a similar form, with 

 darker livid red flowers. 



Var. 9, Fulgvns, Morren, in Spae Mem., 29 ; Lemaire, 111. Hort., 

 t. 657, approaches Davuricum. Stem, 1 to H feet high; leaves, 

 about 40 in number, linear ; flowers, often four to six in number, of 

 a deep red colour; dots, lamellae, and papillae, almost obsolete. 

 Venustum, Kunth, Flore des Serres, t. 652, is a similar form with a- 

 more brilliant flower, more tinged with orange. Wilsoni, hort.,. 

 according to Max Leichtlin, is probably a hybrid between Elegans- 

 and Speciosum. 



In early and mid-growth, apart from their flowers, just as the Tiger group may be 

 recognised by a straight tall habit, more or less woolly stem, and crowded long pointed 



foliage ; Speciosum by the broad alternate shiny leaves ; Martagons by their tall habit, 

 whorl ed or much broken up foliage ; Umbellatum by the elongated, crowded, light green, 

 rough, pubescent foliage, flattened at the top into an umbel as if crushed ; so by its 

 dwarf habit, smooth, rather broad and short shiny foliage, Thunbergianum may be 

 easily differentiated from all other forms. 



"We have grown for years many varieties of the Thunbergianum group, and consider 

 them to have been raised from one type by the horticultural skill of the Japanese, 

 extending over a number of years, who, in dealing with this type, have produced strains 

 of far greater_ excellence, in form, and in variety of colour, than has been effected 

 by Europeans in dealing witli the sister group, Davuricum or L'mbellatum. It seems 

 curious, that while no form of the Thunbergianum group has been found outside- Japan,, 

 no form of Umbellatum has been as yet, to our knoiuledgc, sent over to us as indigenous- 

 to those islands. 



