LILIACE.E. 187 



pollen abundant, bright scarlet. Capsule IJ inch long, oblong-pris- 

 matic, with six blunt angles. Seeds flat, light brown, y% inch across, 

 with a rather narrow border. 



This is certainly distinct, at least as a subspecies, from the plant 

 called L. poraponium by Kunth, Parlatore, Grenier and Godron, etc., 

 Avhich is the L. rubrum of Lamarck: this is a much slenderer plant, 

 with narrower leaves crowded below but remote towards the apex of 

 the stem ; the flowers are produced earlier than in L. pyrenaicum, 

 and are of a bright orange-scarlet. The L. rubrum is also not nearly 

 60 hardy as L. pyrenaicum. 



Yellow Martagon Lily. 



French, Lys des Pyrenees. German, Feuer-Lilie. 



SPECIES n.— LI LIU M MARTAGON. Linn. 

 Plate MDXVlll, 



Bekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLI. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. 1768. 



Bulb subglobular, acute, with rather thin narrowly oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acute scales. Stem rather stout, minutely puberulent or 

 thinly hairy, nearly bare of leaves on the upper part. Leaves (except 

 the upper ones) in rather remote whorls of 5 to 8, elliptical or 

 elliptical-oblanceolate or -obovate, acute, glabrous ; upper leaves and 

 those at the base of the peduncles alternate and narrower than the 

 others, the uppermost linear-strapshaped. Flowers pendulous, 3 to 8 

 or more, all in a lax raceme. Perianth leaves narrowly elliptical- 

 oblong, connivent for less than half their length, revolute for the re- 

 maining part, pale lurid purple with purplish-black roundish raised 

 papillaj. Style slender, thickened towards the apex, twice as lon^^ as 

 the ovary, at length curved upwards. 



Not native, but perfectly naturalised in a copse by the side of 

 Headley Lane, near Mickleham, Surrey. It has occurred in several 

 other places, but it does not appear to be so well established any- 

 where as at Mickleham, where it might readily be mistaken for a 

 native plant, but for the fact that the copse is of artificial orio-in ; and 

 as the plant grows nowhere else in the neighbourhood, it must have 

 been introduced at or after the formation of the copse. 



[England.] Perennial. Late Summer 



Bulb flowering when about the size of a greengage plum, with pale 

 yellow fleshy scales. Stem 18 inches to 4 feet high or a little more. 

 Leaves few, in distant spreading whorls, the largest 3 to 7 inches 

 long, the upper ones much smaller and alternate. Flowers about 1^ 



