LILIUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



LILIUM 



which is really synonymous with L. 

 elegans). Stems 1 to 3 ft. high, bear- 

 ing large open white flowers suffused 

 with rose, the lower portion being 

 blotched with rose or carmine-purple, 

 and covered with irregular out- 

 growths. (Bot. Mag. t. 3785; Bot. 

 Beg. t. 2000 ; Mwes, Lil. t. 12.) 



There are many fine varieties, the 

 best known hwag— album, piire white, 

 with red outside; gloriosoides has 

 much narrower leaves, much-reflexed 

 crisped perianth segments, and 

 scarlet rather than crimson spots and 

 papUlse; Krcetzei-i has pure white 

 flowers with a water-green centre ; 

 macranthum, deep rose; Melpomene, 

 crimson-purple heavily spotted and 

 edged with white ; cruentwn, a dwarf 

 form of Melpomene, with highly 

 coloured flowers ; punctatum, white, 

 spotted and shaded pink; roseum, 

 white washed with rose ; and several 

 others not so well known. 



Ii. sulphureum (L. Wallichianum 

 superhum). — ^A fine Burmese Lily, 4 to 

 7 ft. high, with narrow leaves 6 to 9 

 ins. long, and large white funnel- 

 shaped flowers 6 to 7 ins. long, tinted 

 with yellow inside and rose outside. 

 {Bot. Mag. t. 7275). 



This species grows well in a green- 

 house. It produces offsets at the 

 base, and bulbils in the axils of the 

 upper leaves freely. 



L. superbum. — This is the " Swamp 

 Lily" of N. America. It has creep- 

 ing root-stocks, from which the older 

 bulbs disappear after the develop- 

 ment of the new ones. The stems 

 are from 4 to 10 ft. high, with whorls 

 of lance - shaped pointed leaves. 

 From twenty to forty drooping 

 orange-red flowers heavily spotted 

 with purple are borne, the petals 

 being reflexed as in the Turk's Cap 

 Lilies. {Bot. Mag. t. 396; Elwes, 

 Ml. t. 26.) 



The variety .carolmiawum (also 



known as L. nvtumnale and 

 MicJiaimcinum) is a dwarf form. 



Fig. 244.— Liitiim sufpertum. (J.) 



L. sutchuenense. — A Chinese 

 species, 2 to 3 ft. high, having flexible 

 speckled stems and bright scarlet or 

 orange-red flowers dotted inside with 

 brown. L. papilliferum (or Biondi) 

 and L. chinense, both with scarlet 

 flowers, are closely related. {Bot. 

 Mag. t. 7715; Flora and Sylva, 

 December 1905.) 



This species is still very rare, but 

 may be easily raised from seeds. It 

 is perhaps safer to grow it in a green- 

 house, but would probably prove more 

 vigorous in the open air in the mildest 

 parts. 



L. tallense. — This is intermediate 

 between L. Martagon and L. poly- 

 phyllum, and comes from the moun- 

 tains of Yunnan, W. China. The 

 slender roughish stems are about 6 ft. 

 high, and are furnished with lance- 

 shaped leaves about 2 ins. long, the 

 upper ones being more or less in 

 circles. The flowers are whitish, 

 about 2 ins. long, and are sometimes 

 spotted. 



L. tenulfolium. — A Siberian Lily, 



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