LILIUM 



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LILIUM 



purple, petals slightly recurved. An 

 elegant species. N.W. America. 

 {Bot. Mag. t. 259.) 



Fig. 231. — Liliwrn candidum, (J.) 



L. chalcedonicum. — A well-known 

 "Turk's Cap" Lily, 2 to 3 ft. high, 

 with bright scarlet flowers having the 

 petals rolled back (Bot. Mag. t. 30 ; 

 Blwes, Lil. t. 43). 



This species has been crossed with 

 L. excelsum, and produced a hybrid 

 called Beerensi (Gard. 1895, 11). 



L. columbianuia (L. nitidwn). — 

 This resembles a small L. Humholdti. 

 Flowers drooping, reddish-orange or 

 yellow, with reflexed petals spotted 

 with red purple. Oregon and British 

 Columbia. {Elwes, Lil. t. 31.) 



L. concolor {L. sinicwm). — Flowers 

 bright scarlet spotted with deep 

 brown purple at the base. China 

 and Japan. (Bot. Mag. t. 1165; 

 Blwes, Lil. t. 185.) 



There are several varieties, such as 

 Btischianum, bright scarlet spotted 

 with black ; Coridion, bright yellow 

 spotted with brown; Partheneion, 



orange-yellow vnth faint spots; pvl- 

 chdlvm, scarlet crimson, spotted 

 black ; luteum, yellow spotted purple- 

 red. 



L. cordlfoUum. — Flowers tubular, 

 white spotted with purple brown at 

 the base, and borne on stems 3 to 4 

 ft. high. Leaves broadly heart-shaped, 

 ovate, with long stalks. This J apanese 

 species is like a dwarf form of the 

 Himalayan L. gigantewm. (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6637 ; Elwes, Lil. t. 1.) L. Gle/mi, 

 from the Island of Sachalin, is similar 

 to L. cordifolium, but has more 

 numerous and smaller flowers. 



L. croceum. — This is the well- 

 known orange or Saffron Lily of the 



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Fig. 232. — Lilium croceum. 



European Alps. It has cobwebby 

 stems 3 to 6 ft. high, golden orange 

 funnel-shaped flowers, sometimes 

 tinted with scarlet and spotted with 

 purple at the base. (Bot. Mag. t. 

 36, as L. hvlhiferum.) 



L. Dalhansonl. — A hybrid between 

 the European L. dalmaticum and the 



