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30. L. Supcrbum.L. Sp., 434; Bot. Mag., t. 936 ; Red. SiL, 1. 103 ; 

 Bury, Hexand., t. 30; Kunth, Enum., iv., 258; Flore des Serres, 

 t. 1,014-15. Bulbs (see p. Ill), large, csespitose, globose, perennial; 

 scales, numerous, acute, closely imbricated, tinged with red ; first 

 leaves, firm, glaucous green ; stem, 4 to 6 feet high, stout, tinged 

 with purple; leaves often arranged in 3 or 4 whorls of 8 to 10 leaves,, 

 few or numerous scattered, narrowly lance-shaped, acute, somewhat 

 firm, of a dull green colour, 

 smooth, distinctly three to five 

 nerved, the lower ones 4 or 5 

 inches long, 6 to 9 lines broad 

 in the middle; flowers often 

 6 to 12 in number, sometimes 

 20 to 40, arranged in a deltoid 

 panicle 9 to 12 inches broad, 

 pedicels nodding at the top, 

 the lower ones 3 to 5 inches 

 long, divaricated; perianth, 3 

 or 4 inches long, brilliant 

 orange red; segments, acute, 

 lance-shaped, 6 to 9 lines 

 broad, deeply revolute, with 

 conspicuous claret - coloured 

 slightly lamellated dots on the 



lower half ; groove, deep, with Tlie Superb Orange lA\j\L.' Superbum). 

 smooth edges; filaments, 2 to 2J inches long, very divergent ; anthers,, 

 reddish, 6 to 7 lines long; ovary, 9 to 12 lines long, a little shorter 

 than the curved style ; capsule, obovoid, obtusely six-angled. From 

 Canada to Georgia and Carolina, in woods and marshy places. 



A very valuable, late, graceful Lily, in growth so like Canadcnsc, that it is difficult 

 to distinguish them, except by means of the imm?ture flower buds, which are rounded 

 in Superb-urn, but triangular in Canadense. Properly an eastern form, but stretching 

 westward, and intermingling with the western varieties, so that it becomes difficult to 

 separate the intermediate forms. 



Var. L. CaroUnianwn, Michx., Flora, i., 197; Bot. Mag., t. 2,280; 

 Bot. Reg., t. 580 ; Kunth, Enum., iv., 258. Michauxii, Poir., Ency., 

 iii., 457. Michauxianum, Schult. fil., Syst., vii., 258. Autumnale, 

 Lodd., Bot. Cab., t. 355. Bulb, exactly like that of the type; 

 first leaves appearing earlier, of a shining green, and thicker ; leaves 

 much fewer, broader, and shorter, often 5 or 6 in number, arranged 

 in whorls near the middle of the stem, the others scattered ; stem, 1 

 to 2 feet high, bearing one or few heads ; perianth, exactly like that 

 of the type, but the segments are sometimes broader and more obtuse- 

 From Virginia and Carolina to Florida, flowering in our gardens in 

 August, among the late flowering kinds. 



Carolinianum or Michauxii is a form closely allied to Superbum, but really larger. It 

 is called the Carolina Swamp Lily ; it has broad obovate dark foliage, and bears a very 

 richly tinted perianth, its bulb, however, is more like that of Pardalinum. 



