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NOTES ON LILIES 



We may here introduce a description from Dr. Kellogg, of L. 

 Lucidum, a new form as yet unknown to us, which seems allied to the 

 preceding species. 



31. L. Lucidum, Kellogg, p. 144. "Leaves whorled, scattered below and 

 above, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, very short, petioled or subsessile, 

 pseudo tripli-nerved or somewhat three-nerved, smooth throughout, short 

 peduncled. Flowers 4 (or 1 6) nodding, sepals sessile, lanceolate, 

 strongly turbinate, revolute, thickened at the base ; stamens and style 

 exserted, about equal ; style straight, thick ; perianth light translucent yellow 

 orange, the dark: purple spots on the inside visible from without. June to 

 August. Bulb spheroid or slightly depressed oblate spheroid, scales 

 thickened, lanceolate acute, strongly incurved, and very closely appressed, 

 whitish, with a yellowish green tinge K to 2 inches in diameter, isolated, 

 perennial; stem central, 2 to 3 feet high, quite glabrous throughout ; 

 shortish thick peduncles from axils of bracteoid leaves ; lower and larger 

 leaves, 1 to 1 J inches wide, about 3 to 4 inches long, diminishing above ; 

 flowers l inches in expansion, 1 inch deep ; style to f inch long." A 

 Lily from Oregon and Washington territory, long known, but also con- 

 sidered by authorities as a variety of Canadense. " Without recapitulating 

 the isolated and peculiar bulb, the position of the stem, form and colour of 

 flower surface, equal genital ia, &c., we take these to be constant characters. 

 Indeed, the very revolute sepals remind us more of Superlum than Cana- 

 dense, while the smaller closer flowers and thickened base are peculiar." 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. 10, p. 627. 



32. L.Roezlii. Regel., GartenfL, t. 667. Canadense, var. Hartwegii, 

 Baker, Gard. Chron., 1871, 321. Bulb, perennial, rhizomatous; 

 stem, 2 or 3 feet high, slender, smooth ; leaves, in the specimens I 

 have seen, 20 to 30 in number, a few of the upper or lower ones in 



whorls, or all scattered, ascending, firm, 

 glaucous, narrowly linear, acute, indis- 

 tinctly three to live nerved, the lower 

 ones 4 or 5 inches long, 3 or 4 lines 

 broad in the middle; flowers, 1 to 10 

 in number, if several in a corymb or 

 raceme; pedicels, elongated, nodding 

 at the top; perianth, 2 or 3 inches 

 long, brilliant orange red : segments, 

 acuminate, 5 or 6 lines broad in the 

 middle, lower half yellow, with several 

 purple spots, closely reflexed above the 

 base; groove, distinct, with smooth 

 edges ; stamens, shorter than the 

 perianth by one-third ; anthers, 5 or 6 



lines long ; style, curved, twice as long as the ovary. I have not seen 

 the capsule. Kocky Mountains in the Utah territory, introduced by 

 Koezl into European gardens. California, on the Santa Cruz Moun- 



Roezl's Lily (L. Roczlii). 



