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established. When well grown, it throws up a spike from 4 to 5 feet high, with 12 to 30 

 flowers, of a much brighter tint than that given in the drawing above referred to. 



It is a very early-flowering Lily, with well-marked whorled foliage ; the flowers are 

 golden yellow, star-shaped, and spotted, like other true Martagons, has petals stout and 

 fleshy in substance, broad and ovate, rather than long. 



It was discovered by Maximowicz in 1860, in Japan ; we have had drawings of this 

 Lily, with bulbs sent over to us thence, as far back as the winter of 1869-70, but we 

 never flowered it till 1878. We consider it to be by far the most striking and graceful 

 form of all the true Martagons. 



38. L.MonadelpJmm.M. Bieb., Flor.Taur., i., 267; Cent. PI. Ross., 

 t. 4 ; Gawl. Bot. Mag., t. 1,405 ; Kunth, Enum., iv., 260 ; Fisch. 

 and Lall., Ind. Sem. Petrop., 1839, 57; Reich. Exot., t. 89; Regel, 

 Gartenfl., t. 723. Loddigesiaimm, Schultes, fil, Syst. Veg., vii., 416 ; 

 Kunth, Enurn., iv., 261; Lemaire, Jard. Fleur., t. 204; Paxt. Flow. 

 Gard., t. 58. Szovitzianwn, Fisch. and Lall., Ind. Sem. Petr., 1839, 

 58; Kunth, Enum., iv., 674; Regel, Gartenfl., t. 436; Flore des 

 Serres, 507-9. Qolcliicum, Steven. Bulb, ovoid (seepage 1 14),whitish, 

 perennial ; scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; stem, 

 2 to 5 feet high, stout, green, puberulous ; leaves, 

 30 to 50 in number, scattered, ascending, linear 

 lance-shaped, or oblanceolate, green, distinctly 

 many -nerved, the central ones 3 or 4 inches long, 

 6 to 12 lines broad in the middle, pubescent on 

 the back and edges ; raceme, usually containing 

 from 2 to 16 (sometimes 20 to 30) flowers ; 

 peduncles, 1^ to 2 inches long, nodding at the top ; 

 bracts, large, lance-shaped, in pairs ; perianth, 

 fragrant, of a sulphur-yellow, 2 to 3-| inches 

 long ; segments, oblanceolate, falcate above the 

 middle, 9 to 12 lines broad, tinged with purple at 

 the base and apex, and having a few small 

 blackish dots on the inner surface, not papillose ; 

 groove, smooth and shallow; filaments, 18 to 21 

 lines long, green, flattened from the base, valvate 

 at the base of the upper third of their length ; 

 anthers, 5 or 6 lines long ; pollen, red ; ovary, 7 Crimson-anthered Lily 

 or 8 lines long, half the length of the almost ( L - Ssovitsianum). 

 straight style; capsule, obovoid, 18 to 21 lines long, obtuse-angled, 

 umbilicated at the apex. The Caucasus, and northern Persia, flowering 

 in our gardens in June, amongst the earliest. The original plant of 

 Bieberstein is merely a form which has the filaments united below. 

 This species recedes from the others of this group towards Eulirion, 

 which it resembles in the form of the perianth, and in the absence of 

 papillae, &c. 



Var. L. Ledebourii, Baker; ri/renaicum, Led. Fl. Ross, iv., 151,, 

 non Gouan. -A dwarfer variety with narrower leaves (80 to 100 in 

 number), linear, seven-nerved, 4 to 6 lines broad in the middle, 

 scarcely pubescent underneath ; segments_of the perianth, 6 to 8 lines, 



