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NOTES ON LILIES 



CHAPTER X. 

 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SYNOPSIS. 



SPECIES FORMERLY GROUPED WITH LILIES, BUT NOW PLACED AMONG 



THE FRITILLARIES. 



L. Nanum. Klotsch., Reise WalcL, 53. 6 inches high, downy, 

 as far as the base of the leaves, one-flowered; leaves, linear, grass- 

 like, bluntish, straight, erect, five-nerved ; flower, nodding, small, 

 bell-shaped, white ; perigonous leaflets, oblong, obtuse, all sessile ; 

 stigma, thickened, three-angled, downy ; filaments, subulate ; anthers, 

 oblong, obtuse, bluntly bifid at the base. Western Himalayas, 

 Hoffmeister ; Mount Gossain Than, Nepaul ; Gardner, Sikkim, 

 9,000 to 10,000 feet elevation, Dr. Hooker. Now known as Fri- 

 tillaria Gardneriana. 



]j. Thompsonianum, now identified as Fritillana Macrophylla, D. 

 Don, Prod. Nep., 51 (1825) L. Roscum Wallich, Cat. No. 5077 

 (year 1832), Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 4725. Lilium Thompsonianum, 

 Lindl., Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 1; Spae, Mon., p. 9.Fritilhiria Thom- 



soniana, D. Don, in Royle 111. Him., 

 p., 388, t. 92 (year 1839), Kunth, 

 Enum., iv., p. 072. A native of the 

 Western Himalayas, extending from 

 Affghanistan eastwards by way of Mus- 

 soorie and Kumaon to Nepaul. It has 

 been gathered by nearly all the col- 

 lectors who have visited those regions. 

 In the eastern part of its range, the 

 height which it attains above the sea- 

 level appears to be from 5,000 to 8,000 

 feet. Figures will be found in the three 

 publications quoted ; that in the 

 " Botanical Magazine " being the most 

 recent and much the most satisfactory, 

 both botanically and artistically. 

 Royle' s plant, called Thomsonianum, has flowers half as large again as 

 those I have described, but differs in no other respect from Wallich's 

 original Eoscmn. It seems to have been first introduced into culti- 

 vation by Loddiges, who flowered it in 1844. Captain Strachey sent 

 it to Kew in 1853 from Kumaon, and it was from his specimens that 

 the figure in the " Botanical Magazine " was drawn. 



" ]t may surprise some to be told, that the plant of which the annexed 

 is a representation, is sometimes a Lily and sometimes a Fritillary. It 

 has been alternately referred to the genera Lilium and Fritillaria by 

 different botanists, and even now, it is doubtful whether it has found a 

 permanent resting place. It is one of those plants which puzzle botanists, 

 and it illustrates the fact that it is often as difficult to characterise genera, 

 as it is to define species. The plant was originally described by David 



L. Thompsonianum, Thomson's 

 Fritillary. 



