356 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [May 
numerous dark spots ; segments oblanceolate, more or less revo- 
lute above the middle: filaments short: ovary a little shorter 
than the style; capsule conical. 
Eastern North America from New Brunswick to Georgia, and west to the 
Mississippi river. A good species in cultivation. Varies considerably in 
degree of revoluteness and in color. Those with red flowers may take the 
name L, CANADENSE RUBRUM Britton (Torr. Bot. Bull. 17: 125. 1890). Bright 
yellow sorts may be called L. CANADENSE FLAVUM hort. (nom. nov.). 
61. L. Purpyl, nom. nov. 
L. Bakeri Purdy, Erythea 5; 104. 1897. 
Bulb ovoid, exactly as in ZL. Columbianum: stem 6-18 high, 
rather stout: leaves lanceolate, mostly in whorls : inflorescence 
racemose; flowers few to ten, horizontal, orange-red, thickly 
dotted with maroon, very fragrant, buds nodding ; segments of 
perianth 3°™ long, acute, lower half of segments forming a closely 
constricted tube from which upper half spreads rotately, tips not 
recurved : stamens exserted, a little shorter than the segments, 
not spreading much from the straight style, which they exceed 
a little. 
Washington and British Columbia. 
62. L. corpirotium Thunb. Linn. Soc. Trans. 2:332- 1794 
Hemerocallis cordata Thunb. F1. Jap. 143. 1784- 
Saussurea cordifolia Salisb. Linn. Soc. Trans. 8:11. 1807 
L. Glehni F. Schmidt ? bape Amurl. 187 (Acad. Imp. 
Mem. xiii, no. 2). 1 
‘5c. St. Petr. 
Bulb perennial, globose, cespitose, with scales thicker, more 
rugose, and less regular than in LZ. giganteum: stem 9-! 2 high: 
leaves at the base cordate, long-petiolate, tinged with ae et 
on the stem cordate, ovate, petiolate: flowers 3-19, Se fi 
raceme; perianth narrow, funnel-shaped, 10-15™ long; eras 
oblanceolate, white, with large violet-brown patches on theio¥ 
half of the outer segments. 
: ; ; : ivation. 
Japan. Sometimes seen in collections, but difficult of cultivati 
