1899] CONSPECTUS OF THE GENUS LILIUM 251 
Bulb ovoid, perennial, with a few wide acute scales: stem 
6-12 high: leaves scattered, 7-5™ long, the upper ones often 
bearing bulbils in the axils: flowers one to many, umbellate or 
somewhat racemose, on short stout pedicels; perianth 5-6™ 
long, erect spreading, bright red or dark orange, usually with 
some dull spots, papillose toward the center. 
Central Europe. Long cultivated in gardens. Many horticultural varieties 
have been named, but no form seems to be sufficiently marked to justify 
separate treatment. 
22, L. croceum Chaix in Vill. Hist. Pl. Dauph. 1: 322. 1786. 
L. bulbiferum DC. F). Fr. 3:202. 1805. 
L. aurantiacum Dum. de Cours. Bot. Cult. 2: 1972. 1811. [Ed. 2.] 
L. aurantium Haw. in Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. 2: 645. 1830. 
L. pumilum hort. Bouch in Kunth. Enum. Pl. 4: 265. 1843. 
Bulb perennial, globose, with large, ovate-lanceolate scales : 
‘tem 6-159" high, vigorous: leaves numerous, crowded, linear or 
lanceolate, 75-10 long, 3-5-nerved, glabrous, never bearing 
bulbils in the axilss: flowers solitary or 10-15 in an umbellate 
ees pedicels ascending, 5—7.5™ long, white cobwebby ; 
perianth erect, wide funnelform, 5-6" long; segments oblong- 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a short claw, bright 
orange, conspicuously lamellar-papillose : pollen red. 
oo France, northern Italy. Closely related to L. dudbiferum. 
Ivated, especially in Europe. ‘ 
*3: L. ELEGANS Thunb. Acad. St. Petersb. Mem. 3 : 203. 1811- 
7 Philadelphicum Thunb. Fl. Jap. 135. 1784 (non. Linn.). 
L. bulbiferum Thunb. Linn. Soc. Trans. 2: 333- 1794 (non. Linn.). 
D hunbergianum Schultes f. Syst. Veg. 7: 415. 1830. 
L. “urantiacum Paxt. Mag. Bot. 6: 127. 1839. 
L. @rosanguineum Sieb. in Loud. Hort. Brit. Suppl. 2 : 645. 1839. 
L. fulgens Morren in Spae Mem. Gen. Lis. 29. 1845- 
£. venustum Kunth, Fl. d. Serr. 7 : 33. 4. 657. 1851. 
+ Sanguineum bort. in Vil. Fl. Pl. Texre 499. 1866. {Ed. 2.] 
- in Baker, Linn. Soc. Jour. 14 : 239- 1874- 
SUricum Gaw). in Baker, op. cit. 238. 
