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THE BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 



Although this tall, conventional -looking wild flower grows mostly near 

 the coast it sometimes strays further inland, and even oversteps the borders 

 of its range. Always it is a notable figure, surprising to those who do not 

 know the aspirations towards cultivation of some wild flowers. 



Z. leima7ithoides, pine-barren zygadenus, is found in swamps, or in the 

 wet soil about pine barrens and has a range extending from Georgia to New 

 Jersey. In North Carolina it ascends some of the high mountains and was 

 found by Dr. Mohr on Roan Mountain. It differs from the foregoing species 

 in that its lower leaves are blunt at their apices ; its many flowers, often 

 greenish with the segments of their perianth destitute of claws ; and that in- 

 stead of glands at their bases they are marked with a yellow spot. 



THE LILY FAHILY. 



Liliacece, 



Represe7ited i?i our range by scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs which arise 

 from bulbs or conns, or infrequently from rootstocks, fibrous fleshy roots 

 or a woody caudex. Flowers : regular, consisting of six divisions of the 

 perianth ; six stamens; a three-celled ovary with united styles and a 

 three-lobed or capitata stigma. Fruit : a capsule. 



SOUTHERN RED LILY. {Plate XVI.) 

 Lilium Catesbcei. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Li.y. Scarlet-yelloit\ Scentless. Alabama atid Florida July , August, 



purple spotted. to North Carolina. 



Flowers: terminal; solitary; erect. Perianth : W\\.\\ six lanceolate segments, 

 much narrowed and pointed at the apex, contracted at the base and becoming 

 yellow with deep maroon spots; wavy along the margins. Stamens: six their 

 anthers attached at the middle. Leaves : those from the base, very long. Stem- 

 leaves : alternate; sessile ; narrowly linear; pointed at the apex ; smooth. Stem : 

 one to two feet high from a scaly bulb ; unbranched ; leafy; smooth. 



Late in the summer, when through the pine barrens but few flowers are 

 to be seen, or when those that do appear fail to inspire the sentiment which 

 clusters about many little harbingers of spring, this lily arises and through its 

 gorgeousness gives a different but intense delight. It appears then, and 

 especially when lit by the slanting rays of sunshine which pass through the 

 grey tillandsia, almost mysterious in its radiance. There are other wild 

 red lilies more beautiful, but this one is peculiarly of the south. In finding 

 it there lurks always a charm. 



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