

LILY FAMILY 309 



1. Flowers purple and mottled F. atropurpurea 



2. Flowers yellow or orange, tinged with purple F. pudica 



LEUCOCRINUM Nuttall 1837 SAND LILY 



(Gr. leukos, white, krinon, lily) 



PL 44, fig. 8. 



Sepals and petals 3 each, white, similar, linear-oblong, forming a long 

 tube, stamens 6 near the top of the tube, ovary 3-celled, style 1 ; flowers 

 in an umbel, from the rootstock, leaves basal, linear, from a rootstock. 

 Leaves 2-10 in. long; flower-tube 1-2 in. long L.montdnum 



LILIUM Linne 1753 LILY 



(The Latin name) 



PL 42, fig. 4. 



Sepals and petals 3 each, reddish-orange, similar, with a nectar-groove 

 at base, stamens 6, ovary 3-celled, style 1, stigma 3-lobed; flowers solitary, 

 or few, terminal ; leaves whorled or alternate ; leafy-stemmed perennial from 

 a bulb. 

 Stems 1-3 ft. high; leaves lanceolate, 1-4 in. long; 



flowers 2-4 in. long L. philadelphicum 



LLOYDIA Salisbury 1812 



(Named for Lloyd, an English botanist) 



PL 44, fig. 9. 



Sepals and petals 3 each, white, similar, stamens 6, ovary 3-celled, 

 style 1 ; flower usually solitary, erect ; leaves alternate, thread-like, the bases 

 papery; stems from a bulb with a root-stalk. 

 Stems 2-8 in. high; flowers 1-2 cm. wide; at 10-14000 



ft. L. serotina 



POLYGON ATUM Adanson 1763 SOLOMON'S SEAL 

 (Gr. polys, many, gonu, knee, from the joints of the rootstock) 



Sepals and petals united into a 6-lobed tube, greenish, stamens 6 on the 

 tube, ovary 3-celled, style 1, fruit a berry; flowers axillary, 2-10 in an um- 

 bel ; leaves ovate to lance-oblong, alternate, sessile ; leafy-stemmed from a 

 horizontal rootstock. 

 Stems 2-8 ft. high; leaves ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 in. 



long; flowers 1-2 cm. long P. commutdtum 



