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NOTES ON LILIES 



style; capsule, 1 inch, long; obtuse-angled. Lombardy, 

 Dalmatia, Illyria, and Bosnia ; flowering in June. 



"We have received and flowered a variety of the above Lily without spots in the flower 

 (Unicolor) ; we also have reason to believe that there is a white variety. 



The Carniolian or Nodding lied Lily 

 (L. Carniolicum). . 



The Nankeen Lily 

 (L. Tcstaceum). 



42. L. Testaceum.Lm&l., Bot .Keg., 1842, Misc., 51, 1843, 

 t. 11 ; Paxt. Mag. Bot., 1843, 221, with a figure; Kunth, Enum., iv., 

 673; Flore des Serres, t. 39; Regel, GartenfL, t. 349. Excelsum, 

 Walp. Ann., xi., 110. Isdbellinum, Kunze, in Mohl. and Schlecht., 

 Bot. Zeit., i., 609. Bulb, globose, perennial ; stem, 4 or 5 feet high, 

 slightly downy, tinged with brown; leaves, sixty to a hundred in 

 number, scattered, very close, linear, ascending, firm, dull, green, 

 three to five-nerved, the lower ones 3 or 4 inches long, 3 or 4 lines 

 broad in the middle, the margins covered with whitish down, the 

 upper ones gradually smaller, 1 to 1| inches long, pressed close 

 to the stem, more distinct, being at some distance from the flowers ; 

 flowers, three to ten in number, in an umbel or raceme, fragrant ; 

 pedicels, erect-patent, 4 to 6 inches long, nodding at the top, bracted 

 with small white-margined leaves; perianth, 2 to 3 inches long, dull 

 yellow ; segments, deeply revolute, 9 to 12 lines broad, with a few 

 small reddish dots near the base, slightly lamellate-papillose ; groove, 

 deep, with smooth edges ; filaments, half the length of the perianth ; 

 anthers, 5 or 6 lines long; pollen, red; ovary, 6 to 8 lines long, 

 about half the length of the curved style. A garden variety, probably 

 a hybrid between Candiditm and Chalcedonicum ; flowers in the end 

 of July. 



This very graceful and distinct Lily is said to have been first noticed at Erfurt, in a 

 bed of seedlings, in 1846. It has a most pleasant perfume, graceful appearance, and is a 

 general favourite. 



It has been thought not to have a Japanese origin, because no bulbs of it have ever 

 been traced as coming over from those Islands of the "Western Sea, so productive of new 

 and graceful forms ; but, we have seen more than once, in Japanese drawings executed for 

 us, years ago, by some of the best artists in Yeddo, as containing "all the Lilies of 

 Japan," forms represented, bearing a very strong resemblance to Excclmm. It is true 



