52 THE LILY FAMILY. 



Florida and Louisiana. It is startlingly beautiful when its graceful head is 

 seen nodding through the wood's undergrowth. Although several flowers 

 sometimes grow on the stem, a solitary one is more often seen. Its 

 segments are lanceolate, pointed and arched backward so that the tips 

 frequently overlap each other. They are of an intense orange-red marked 

 with many purple spots. The plant is a low one, not growing over three 

 feet high, and has oblanceolate leaves, 



L. superbiim, turk's cap lily, is a gorgeous plant, growing at times eight 

 feet high and having been known to bear in a large panicle as many as forty 

 deep orange coloured flowers, although it is more usual to find a smaller 

 number. They nod from long peduncles. The perianth segments are long, 

 lanceolate, pointed and greatly recurved. In fact they are often so closely 

 folded backward that a turk's cap has by them been suggested. That the 

 flowers have this characteristic is the reason it would seem why so many of 

 the country people mistake the plant for Lilium Caroliniana, which in a 

 slighter degree possess the same trait. Its greater and more abundant 

 growth however should mark it distinctively. 



NoVina Georgiana, 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily. White. Scentless. Georgia and South Carolina. April, May. 



Flowers: small ; growing in a raceme often two feet long; minutely bracted at 

 the bases of their pedicels, which are thread-like and become reflexed in fruit. 

 Perianth: divided into six segments. Sfatnens : six, on the perianth. Anthers'. 

 cordate. Stigmas: three. Capsule : ohov2C<.Q. \ three-valved. Z^^/^vj ; those from 

 the base very long, narrowly linear, pointed at the aj^ex, rough and file-like on the 

 margins ; those of the stem, shorter, sessile and harsh. Scape : two to three feet 

 high ; smooth ; sparingly leafy ; branched above. Root : bulbous ; large. 



This is one of the flowers about which there exists no folk-lore, no poetry. 

 Year after year the natives trample it down in an unobservant way as they 

 stride through the dry, pine barrens. Yet it is a pretty thing. One curious 

 trait it shows is the clinging persistence of the perianth segments as they 

 wither. 



A^. Brittonidfia, a new species which has but recently been determined, 

 grows in sandy soil through the high pine regions of Florida. It has been 

 named in honour of Dr. Britton. 



YELLOW ADDER'S-TONQUE. 



ErytJirbniinn A ni eric an iim . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Li/y. Yelloiu. Scentless. Florida and Missouri to JMarch-May. 



Noz'a .Scotia and westward. 



Flo7vers: at the summit of a peduncle which is about the length of the leaves, 

 and gheathed by their bases ; solitary; nodding. Perianth: with six, linear-lance- 



