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NOTES ON LILIES 



oblanceolate, 3 or 4 lines broad ; groove, smooth, distinctly excavated, 

 with smooth edges ; filaments, green, 1 2 to 14 lines long ; anthers, 

 3 or 4 lines long ; pollen, vermilion-red ; ovary, 5 to 6 lines long, a 



Little Turk's Cap Lily (L. Pompcnium). Flower of The Little Turk's Cap Lily. 

 little shorter than the style; capsule, ovoid, ] inches long, umbil'i- 

 cated at the top, somewhat acutely six-angled. Northern Italy and 

 the South of France. It flowers in our gardens at the end of June. 

 August! folium, Mill. Diet., No. 6, is a more slender form, with very 

 narrow one-nerved leaves. 



Var. L. Pyrcnaicum, Gouan. 111. 25 ; Eed. Lil., t. 145 ; Eeich. Ic; 

 Germ., t. 992 ; Kunth, Enum., iv., 262. Flavum, Lam. Gall., iii., 

 283. A more robust variety, with leaves a little broader and distinctly 

 three-nerved, often extending to the base of the raceme; flowers, 

 yellow and larger ; bracts larger and style thicker. Pyrenees Mar- 

 tagou Luteum non Punciatum, Parkins, Theat., 35, is a variety which 

 has yellow flowers without dots. 



Mention must also be made of a form called Pomponium Verum, collected "by Mr. 

 George Maw, 14,000 feet above sea level, in the Maritime Alps, and from Lantosca, near 

 Mentone ; it grows from 2 to 3 feet high, and is distinguished from the common garden 

 form, by the bright scarlet tint of its Sowers dotted over with linear arranged dots, ami 

 by its numerous, very slender, keeled, crowded, linear leaves; each leaf has a white 

 edge and is somewhat sickle-shaped, with a spiral twist following the course of the sun : 

 its foliage, therefore, has a very peculiar appearance, especially when just unfolded, 

 resembling much that of TcnuifoUurn, but rather more white edged, like that of some 

 Yuccas. It is a much more beautiful form than the preceding. 



L. Albanum is a Transylvanian form, exactly like the yellow Pyrenaicum, but with 

 a little larger leaves, and pollen of a different colour, the odour is sweet, like that of 

 honey, whereas the savour of the garden form is rather nauseous ; it occurs in quantities, 

 near. Verespatch ; but the Macedonian plant from which Griesbach drew his description, 

 referred to under head of Chalcedonicum, differs somewhat (Leichtlin). 



48. L. Chalcedonicum. Linn. Sp. Plant., 434, ex parte ; Gawl., 

 Bot. Mag., t. 993, non Jacq. Rubrum Byzantinum sive Matiagon 

 Constantinopolitanum, Parkins., Parad., 34. Bulb, ovoid, peren- 

 nial, yellowish ; scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; stem, straight, 

 downy, 3 or 4 feet high, green, tinged with purple; leaves, 100 or 



