600 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
fruit is an erect, many-seeded capsule. The species are natives of the 
Temperate Regions of the Northern Hemisphere. 
We have no species of Lilium indigenous to Britain, 
though ZL. Martagon has long been naturalised in a 
restricted area of Surrey. This was one of the first species to have been 
introduced to this country, for we find that it was growing in English 
gardens with L. candidum, L. chaleedonicum, L. croceum, L. bulbiferwm, 
and L. pyrenaicum (a sub-species of L. pomponiwm) as far back as 1596. 
All these are European species, and they were joined about 1629 by 
L. pomponium from Northern Italy, and L. canadense from North 
America. In 1745 L. davwricum came from Siberia, L. philadelphicum 
from North America in 1757, and L. Catesbei from the same region in 
1787. Many species have been introduced during the present century. 
Among the most notable of these are several from Japan, beginning 
with LZ. japonicum, 1804, L. elegans, 1820, L. longiflorum, 1820, L. 
speciosum, 1832, L. cordifolium, 1853, L. auratum, 1862, L. Hansoni, 
1865, and L. Leichtlini, 1867. From China came L. tigrinwm, 1804, 
and pseudo-tigrinwm, 1867. From Himalaya we received L. rosewm and 
L. giganteuwm, 1852; and from California, L. washingtonianum, 1872, 
L. pardalinum, 1875, and L. Parryi, 1879. 
LintuM AURATUM (golden). The Golden-rayed Lily. 
Stems purplish, round, 2 to 5 feet high. Leaves slender, 
lance-shaped, 6 to 9 inches long. Flowers 10 to 12 inches across, highly 
fragrant, white, with a band of bright yellow down the centre of each 
segment, which is also spotted with carmine, and the base thickly 
studded with fleshy excrescences; July and August. The racemes are 
short, and consist of from three to twenty flowers. This is the most 
magnificent of the genus. Plate 279. There are several named varieties 
of it. 
L. BULBIFERUM (bulb-bearing). Stem furrowed, downy, 2 to 4 feet 
high. Leaves slender, numerous; the upper ones with purple-brown 
bulbils in their axils. Flowers reddish yellow, erect, the segments 
suddenly narrowing below to form a distinct claw; raceme twelve- to 
cighteen-flowered ; June and July. 
L. CANADENSE (Canadian). Stem round, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves 
lance-shaped, usually in distinct whorls. Flowers 2 to 24 inches long, 
varying from bright yellow to pale red, much spotted with purplish red ; 
drooping, in few-flowered corymbs; June to August. 
L. CANDIDUM (white). St. Joseph’s Lily; Madonna Lily. Stem } to 
3 inch thick near base, stiff, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves slender, much 
crowded on the lower half of stem, short and scattered above. Flowers 
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