Liliacea Liliwn. 511 



L. Maximowiczii, syn. L. pseudo-tigrlnum, is very near the 

 last, but the stems are tinged with purple and somewhat cot- 

 tony, and the ground colour of the flower is a brilliant scarlet. 

 Japan ? 



19. L. Pomponium, syn. L. angustifolium.An old inha- 

 bitant of our gardens, and one of the prettiest of the moderate- 

 sized species. It has an erect finely-furrowed rigid stem and 

 very numerous short narrow 1-nerved linear leaves 1^ to 2 lines 

 broad in the middle, attenuated towards both ends and in- 

 curved at the margin. Flowers pendulous, 1 to 8, or usually 

 more in cultivation, in a thyrsoid raceme, the lower pedicels 3 

 to 4 inches long. Perianth-segments lanceolate, reflexed from 

 below the middle, hairy at the tip and slightly papillose within. 

 Flowers more or less spotted with black on a scarlet, orange- 

 scarlet, yellow or white ground. A native of Lombardy, Savoy, 

 and neighbouring districts. 



20. L. tenuifolium, syn. L. linifolium, L. piimilum. A 

 very dwarf slender species from 6 to 12 inches high with nu- 

 merous glabrous linear-subulate minutely-toothed leaves and 1 

 or 2 or more nodding flowers. Perianth-segments lanceolate- 

 spathulate, 14 to 16 lines long, spreading from near the base and 

 distinctly clawed, bright scarlet, rarely spotted. This very 

 beautiful little plant is a native of Siberia and China. 



7. HEMEROClLLIS. 



Herbaceous plants from the temperate parts of Europe and 

 Asia, with fleshy, tuberous, or bulbiform rhizomes and long 

 narrow radical slightly equitant keeled leaves, from the centre 

 of which rises a leafless flower-stem. Flowers in corymbs some- 

 thing similar to those of some Lilies, but differing from them in 

 having the six leaves of -the perianth united at the base into a 

 narrow tube enclosing the free ovary ; capsule several-seeded. 

 'llfjuepoKoXXis is the Greek name of this genus of plants, and 

 signifies ' beauty of a day ' or ' ephemeral beauty ' in allusion 

 to the duration of the individual flowers. Hence also the 

 English name Day Lily. 



Two species of this genus are commonly cultivated, and are 

 useful in planting in shrubberies or where large clumps are 

 required ; for though the individual flowers last but a day or 

 two, they succeed one another for a considerable time. .The 

 flowering season is from June to August ; and they are per- 

 fectly hardy. 



