PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 83 



WILD YELLOW LILY. MEADOW LILY. 



Lilium Canadense. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily. Yellow, spotted with Scentless. New England, so nth- June, July, 



rich brown. -ward and -westward. 



Flowers : terminal ; solitary, or a few ; nodding. Perianth : of six, deeply 

 parted divisions that curve towards the base, where there is a honey-bearing 

 spot. Stamens: six. Pistil: one; stigma, three-lobed. Leaves: whorled 

 about the stem ; narrowly oblong ; parallel-veined. Stem : erect, from a scaly 

 bulb. 



When we walk in the meadows and read the aristocracy of 

 the flowers we find that the golden lilies are very noble. They 

 seem to have none of the democratic, bohemian instincts of our 

 pretty chicory and its playmates. They are so grave and 

 dignified. No doubt fate has whispered to them that they were 

 only to nod their heads through the ages of poetry, or to en- 

 courage the beautiful in art. And their influence is very far 

 reaching; sometimes whole meadows will be radiant with them 

 as they extend their way down to the marshes. 



Of about fifty species of the north temperate zone, the 

 meadow lily is one of the five that are native to the eastern 

 United States. 



L. Carolinianum, or the Carolina lily, (Plate XXXVIII^) is very 

 slight in its variations from the meadow lily ; although a still 

 more gorgeous flower. The leaves are broader and its orange- 

 red colour is tipped with a highly brilliant crimson. The spots 

 that colour the longitudinal anthers are of the darker brown. 



TURK'S=CAP LILY. 



Lilium super bum, 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily. Orange, spotted with Scentless. Maine to Minnesota, July, August, 



purple. and southward. 



Flowers: nodding; growing in a pyramidal cluster of three to forty blos- 

 soms arranged in rows. Periatitk: of six, recurved divisions. Stamens : six ; 

 anthers, linear, attached at the middle. Pistil: one; stigma, three-lobed. 

 Leaves : whorled ; sessile ; lanceolate. Stem : often eight feet high. 



Perhaps we have no other flower so truly majestic in its bearing 

 as the Turk's-cap lily. It is very generous of its bloom and is 



