Yellow and Orange' 



cutters, conspicuous amof3g t«'e Uwong. Nectar they want, of 

 course; but the dark, rich potleniS needed also to mix with it for 

 the food supply of a generation StSl unborn. Any one who has 

 smelled a lily knows how his nose looks afterward. The bees 

 have no difficulty whatever in removing Mtf pollen and trans- 

 ferring it. So much for the colored lilies. 



The long, white, trumpet-shape type of lily chooses for her 

 lover the sphinx moth. For him she wears a spotless white robe- 

 speckles would be superfluous — ^that he may see it shine in the 

 dusk, when colored flowers melt into the prevailing blackness ; 

 for him she breathes forth a fragrance almost overwhelming at 

 evening, to guide him to her neighborhood from afar; in con- 

 sideration of his very long, slender tongue she hides her sweets 

 so deep that none may rob him of it, taking the additional pre- 

 caution to weld her six once separate parts together into a solid 

 tube lest any pilferer thrust in his tongue from the side. 



The common orange-tan Day Lily {Hemerocallis fulva) and 

 the commoner speckled, orange-red Tiger Lily {L. tigrinum) are 

 not slow in seizing opportunities to escape from gardens into 

 roadsides and fence corners. 



Yellow Adder's Tongue; Trout Lily; Dog-tooth 



."Violet" 



(Erytbroniutn Americanum) Lily family 



Flower— SoMtzry, pale russet yellow, rarely tinged with purple, 

 slightly fragrant, i to 2 in. long, nodding from the summit of 

 a footstalk 6 to 12 in. high, or about as tall as the leaves. 

 Perianth bell-shaped, of 6 petal-like, distinct'segments, spread- 

 ing at tips, dark spotted within; 6 stamens"; the club-shaped 

 style with 3 short, stigmatic ridges. Leaves: 2, unequal, 

 grayish green, mottled and streaked with brown or all green, 

 oblong, 3 to 8 in. long, narrowing into clasping petioles. 



lYeferred Habitat— lAohl open woods and thickets, brooksides. 



Flowering Season — March — May. 



Distribution — Nova Scotia to Florida, westward to the Mississippi. ' 



Colonies of these dainty little lilies, that so often grow beside 

 leaping brooks where and when the trout hide, justify at least 

 one of their names ; but they have nothing in common with the 

 violet or a dog's tooth. Their faint fragrance rather suggests a 

 tulip; and as for the bulb, which in some of the lily-kin has tooth- 

 like scales, it is in this case a smooth, egg-shaped corm, produc- 

 ing little round offsets from its base. Much fault is also found 

 with another name on the plea that the curiously mottled and 



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