1899] CONSPECTUS OF THE GENUS LILIUM see ye 
g. L. canDipuM Linn. Sp. Pl. 302. 1853. 
L. Byzantinum Steud. Nom. 2:44. 1840. [Ed. 2.] 
L. peregrinum Mill. Dict. n. 2. [Ed. 8.] 
L. candidum striatum Van Houtte, FI. de Serr. ¢. 735. 
L, candidum spicatum hort. in Baker, Linn. Soc. Jour. 14:232. 1874. 
L, candidum peregrinum Linn. in Baker, loc. cit. 
Bulb ovoid, perennial large: stem leaves scattered sessile, 
acute bract-like above: stem 6-12 high, erect, stiff: flowers 
6-25 in a raceme, 10-15 long and wide, pure white, fragrant, 
segments revolute in upper third, obtuse: stamens short, 
bearing yellow anthers: style and ovary much longer than the 
stamens, 
Southern Europe. Several garden forms have been described as varieties 
of this species, Such are var. striatum hort., var. sficatum hort., and var. 
peregrinum Linn. They do not seem to be worthy of botanical rank how- 
ever One of the most ornamental species, and an old favorite, though con- 
siderably subject to disease.3 
10. L. Low: Baker, Bot. Mag. ¢. 7232. 1892. 
L. Nepalense Coll. & Hem. (non D. Don), Linn. Soc. Jour. 28:138. 1890. 
Bulb globose, 5° in diameter, scales smal lanceolate: stem 
as stiffly erect, 9-12 high: leaves very numerous, 
Ltt sessile, linear, erecto-patent, 5—7.5°™ long: flowers 
me ‘ie corymbose or umbellate, on long cernuous eer 
aa leaf at the middle; perianth open funnel-shaped, 
obion l ong; fully expanded limb 7.5™ in diameter, segments 
With = pela the inner and outer nearly uniform, white 
Spots nha 8reenish tinge on the outside, white without ai 
teen on i ue spreading upper half, tinged with — 
Center age Connivent lower half, and covered, except in a 
s orter th ne spots of claret-brown : stamens about 2.5 : 
just ii. ei perianth; anthers large, linear, brown: stigm 
Pping the anthers. 
Upper Burmah. 
For Not : . 
*son lily disease see Vt, Exp. Sta. Rept. 11:297. 1898. 
