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the middle, with numerous claret-coloured spots on the inner surface,, 

 lamellated in the upper part ; groove, distinctly sunk, with smooth 

 edges ; filaments, shorter than the perianth by one-third ; anthers, 4 

 to 6 lines long ; ovary, 8 or 9 lines long, a little shorter than the 

 almost straight style ; capsule, turbinate, obtuse-angled, H inch long, 

 not umbilicated at the apex ; septa, delicate. North Eastern America, 

 from Canada to Georgia. It recedes (along with Monadelphwri) from 

 the Martagon section towards Eulirion, the funnel-shaped perianth, in 

 the expanded flower, being revolute only above the middle. Var. 

 Pendulrftorum, hort., Leicht., is a form with segments revolute to or 

 below the middle. 



Var. 1, L. Parviim. Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., ii., t. 52; Eegel r 

 Garteiiflora, t. 725; Duchartre, Obs., 98. Bulb (seepage 110) and 

 perianth, like those of the type, but in our gardens the plant has a, 

 smaller and slenderer habit ; stem, green, 1 to 1| feet high; upper 

 leaves, usually scattered; flowers, much less nodding, sometimes 

 nearly erect; perianth, 15 to 18 lines long, brilliant orange-red, with 

 numerous dots ; segments, acute, 3 to 5 lines broad, falcate above the 

 middle ; anthers, oblong, 2 or 3 lines long ; ovary, 3 or 4 lines long, 

 half the length of the almost straight style. California, on the Sierra 

 Nevada chain, at an altitude of 6,000 feet. Jeffray, 1,283. According- 

 to Kellogg, it attains a height of 5 feet, and bears as many as fifty 

 flowers. 



Var. 2, L. Walkeri.Wood, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1868, 166. 

 Stem, 3 feet high, or more ; leaves, tender, narrower, arranged in 

 regular whorls of seven or eight leaves, the whorls being very distant 

 from each other ; lower leaves, 4 or 5 inches long, 4 or 5 lines broad, 

 the veins very slender in comparison with the mid-rib ; flowers, more 

 numerous, arranged in an elongated raceme ; perianth, funnel-shaped, 

 10 to 15 lines long; segments, 2 to 3 lines broad, falcate only at the 

 apex ; stamens, a little shorter than the perianth ; anthers, oblong, 

 1 lines long ; ovary, 4 lines long, half the length of the straight style ; 

 stigma, very small. California, Walker, Bridges, 268. 



Var. 3, L. Parviflomm. Hook., Flor. Bor. Am., ii., 281 ; Sayii, 

 Nuttall, MSS. ; Canadense var. minus, Wood, Proc. Acad. Phil., 

 1868, 166. Stem, 2 or 3 feet high; leaves, in whorls, or most of 

 them scattered ; oblanceolate, tender, the lower ones 6 to 12 lines 

 broad ; flowers, solitary, or few in an umbel, nodding ; perianth, 

 18 to 21 lines long, segments, oblanceolate, bluntish, deeply reflexed 

 from the middle, where they are 3 or 4 lines broad ; stamens, shorter 

 than the perianth by one-third ; anthers, 3 lines long ; ovary, 6 lines 

 long, as long as the style. British Columbia and Oregon. Nuttall, 

 Douglas, Lyall, &c. Bulb, like that of Canadense; perianth, more 

 revolute, but smaller than in Pardalinum and Superbum. 



Under the head Canadense, Mr. Baker has in the above description, included both the 

 Eastern and Western North American forms. We are inclined to consider them as 

 distinct. The Eastern group, the true Canadense, is quite hardy with us, and widely 



