L iliaccce L ilium. 50 7 



to 2 inches broad, lower ones 7- to 9-ribbed. Flowers 4 to 6 

 inches in diameter, 3 to 6 or more, corymbose, on long sub- 

 erect bracteate pedicels. Perianth-segments 3 to 5 inches long, 

 spreading from the base, and more or less covered on the lower 

 half inside with papillose tubercles. Filaments variable in 

 length ; pollen deep red or yellowish. As a cultivated plant 

 it is very variable in the colour of its flowers white spotted or 

 tinged with carmine or rose, or wholly white. There are many 

 named varieties, as album, punctatum, rubrum, etc. It is a 

 native of Japan, and totally different from the true L. land- 

 folium. 



9. L. auratum. This is perhaps the most gorgeous of all 

 the Lilies, and one of the greatest acquisitions of recent years. 

 Its purplish stems rise to a freight of 2 to 5 feet and they are 

 clothed with lanceolate shortly petiolate 5- to 7-nerved glabrous 

 leaves from 6 to 9 inches long. Flowers very large, from 6 to 

 10 inches in diameter, 3 to 6 or many more on each stem. 

 Perianth-segments spreading, 5 to 7 inches long, papillose within 

 below the middle. This species is very variable in the colour- 

 ing of its flowers. In the original variety the petals are pure 

 white with a yellow band down the centre and scattered car- 

 mine spots, but scarcely two seedling plants can be found 

 exactly alike in the disposition of the colours. Japan. 



L. Philadelphicum is a North American species with the 

 leaves usually in distinct whorls and orange-red flowers spotted 

 with purple. It is near L. bulbiferum, but the stems are never 

 cottony and the perianth-segments are distinctly clawed. L. 

 medeololdes is a Japanese species with whorled leaves and 

 small reddish-yellow spotted flowers. L. Vatesbcei, syn. L. 

 spectdbile of Salisbury, and L. Carolinianum of Catesby, not of 

 Michaux, is a tender North American species remarkable for 

 the long slender claw of the perianth -segments. Flowers 

 orange-red spotted with purple. 



10. L. bulbi/erum. Under this we include several forms, 

 all characterised by having scattered linear-lanceolate leaves, 

 commonly bulbiliferous in their axils, and few erect flowers 

 with distinctly clawed spreading not recurved perianth-seg- 

 ments. The true L. bulbiferum has cottony stems, bulbili- 

 ferous leaves, and reddish-yellow flowers. The sub-species 

 croceum (fig. 249), Orange Lily, differs in the upper leaves 

 being destitute of bulblets, and the flowers of a more decided 

 orange-colour, never scarlet or crimson. Both of these are 



