L iliac e^ L ilium. 



Flowers bright scarlet or yellow, not spotted. A very hardy 

 species, native of the South of Europe, and long in cultivation. 



16. L. Pyrenaicum, L. flavum. 

 This species is very near the last 



and L. Pomponium, differing from 

 the latter in its broader distinctly 

 3-nerved leaves less revolute at the 

 margin, and from the former in its 

 bright yellow spotted flowers. A 

 native of the Pyrenees. 



L. callosum is remarkable for its 

 indurated hood-shaped bracts. The 

 leaves are few and distant, and the 

 flowers bright scarlet with reflexed 

 segments. Japan. 



17. L. testaceum, syn. L. excel- 

 sum, L. Isabelllnum. This is a 

 distinct plant with a slender stem 

 5 to 6 feet high, and crowded as- 

 cending linear 3- to 5-nerved leaves 

 ciliate on the margin and nerves 

 beneath, the lower ones 3 to 4 inches 

 long. Flowers 1 to 6 or more, on 

 long pedicels in a thyrsoid raceme, 

 nankeen yellow tinged with red. 

 Perianth-segments 2J to 3 inches 

 long, 8 to 12 lines broad, united 

 at the base, strongly reflexed and 

 slightly papillose within. This is 

 reported to be of hybrid origin be- 

 tween L. cdndidum and L. Chalce- 

 donicum, but nothing certain is 

 known of its origin. 



18. L. Leichtlinii. Stem rather 

 slender, rising to a height of 2 or 3 



feet, and rather loosely clothed with small linear slightly 

 puberulous 3-nerved leaves. Flowers usually solitary or two 

 together, bright yellow spotted with purplish red. Perianth- 

 segments lanceolate, 2 to 3 inches long, recurved from the base, 

 hairy inside towards the base. This plant came up in a bed of 

 L. auratum at Messrs. Veitch's, and it is not known whether 

 it be a wild Japanese species or of hybrid origin. 



Fig. 2oO. Lilium Chalccdonicuin. 

 (i nat. size.) 



