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NOTES ON LILIES 



below, green above, the leaves very short, glossy, of a very deep green, and curled 

 downwards, the flowers very large, deeply cupped, apricot tinted, with a broad 

 yellow band down the centre of the petal, purple spotted. 



Both these two last varieties have a lilac sheen when fresh, and the bulbs are large 



and coarse, resembling much those of the Unibellatum section. 



27. L. Catesbcei.Walt., Fl. Carol., 123; Bot. Mag., t. 259; 



Lodd., Bot. Cab., t. 807; Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard., ser. ii., t. 185; 



Kunth, Enum., iv v 263. Speddbile, Salsb., Stirp. Ear., t. 5, non 



Link. CaroUnianum,, Catesby, Car., ii., 

 t. 58, non Michx. Bulb (see page 103), 

 like that of Philadelphieum (?) ; stem, 

 1 to 2 feet nigh, slender, terete, smooth, 

 green ; leaves, 20 to 30 in number, 

 scattered, ascending, smooth, green, lance- 

 shaped, or linear, the lower ones 2 or 3 

 inches long, 4 to 6 lines broad, the upper 

 ones gradually smaller ; perianth, solitary, 

 erect, broadly funnel-shaped, 3 or 4 inches 

 long, of a brilliant orange-red ; segments, 

 oblong-lance-shaped, 6 to 12 lines broad 

 in the middle, distinctly cuspidate for 

 some leogth, and with purple spots scat- 

 , x tered over the inner surface ; claw, chan- 

 'nelled at the base, 9 to 15 lines, with 

 revolute margins ; filaments, 2 to 3 inches long ; anthers, narrow, 

 4 to 6 lines long; pollen, red; ovary, 9 to 12 lines Jong; style, 

 slender, twice the length of the ovary. North America, from Georgia 

 and Carolina to Florida. 



This Lily received by us from the swampy regions of S. Carolina, is somewhat tender ; 

 the bulb has scales longer and more acut than those of PhiladelpMcum, and at the upper 

 part, the outer claw-like scales exhibit a blunt scar, where the leaf has broken off : so 

 that, in fact, the scales of this Lily, which are few in number, are the extended bases of 

 the leaves, which are long, very slender, grass-like, and crowded at the base. The bulb 

 is tender, and growing on during the winter must be kept under glass. "We have 

 flowered it, but we are not aware that anyone else has done so. 



Catesby's Orange Lily (L. Cateslcci). 



SUB-GENUS V. 



MARTAGON (Endl.), TURK'S-CAP LILIES. 



Flowers, in racemes, nodding, dotted, usually of a brilliant red or 

 orange colour; perianth, broadly campanulate; segments, lance- 

 shaped, deeply falcate ; grooves, deep ; stamens, diverging on all 

 sides from the curved style. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Leaves verticillate, in whorls 



(1). American Species (a), bulbs annual, rhizomatous 



28, Canadcnsc, 29, Pardalinum, 30, Supcrlum, 31, Lu- 

 cidum, 32, Roczlii. 



(b), bulbs perennial, not rhizomatous 



33, Colttmbianum, 34, Hutnboldtii. 



