CHAPTER V 



SUB-GENUS IV 



LILIUM PHILADELPHICUM (North America), 

 Isolirion 



A RATHER small and pretty Lily, though not so im- 

 portant as others of this group ; cup-shaped, orange 

 spotted, and brighter coloured to the ends of the 

 petals. About three feet high. It likes a cool, damp 

 place in peat. A correspondent in the State of Con- 

 necticut speaks of collecting them by grassy roadsides, 

 and we hear of them also in dry woods. The bulbs 

 are very small. 



LILIUM CONCOLOR (China), Isolirion 

 One of the best dwarf Lilies, scarlet with dark spots. 

 This is undoubtedly a beautiful small Lily, but it 

 seems to be but little cultivated. It is probably a 

 plant for careful culture in a choice spot in the rock- 

 garden or its near neighbourhood. The stem, which 

 is eighteen inches to two feet high, bears five or six 

 of the scarlet cup-shaped flowers. It likes the usual 

 Lily soil of light loam and leaf-mould, though we hear 

 of it doing well in a peat bed in Northumberland. 



LILIUM CORIDION (Japan), Isolirion 

 A very pretty Lily, with solitary flowers of a bright 

 yellow colour, suited for the rock-garden, as it is a 

 small growing kind. 



