LILY FAMILY 



GOLD-BANDED LILY 



LUvum aurhium. 

 Native of Japan, brought into western cultivation in 1862. 



Bulb. — Perennial, globose. 

 Stem. — Two to four feet high. 

 Leaves. — Scattered, five-nerved. 



Flowers. — In a short raceme, with bractiolate pedicels, spreading; 

 segments reflexed and somewhat twisted, white, more or less marked 



Gold-banded Lily. LUium auralum 



with bands of yellow and spots of carmine or dull-red; at the base thickly 

 studded with fleshy excrescences. 



Stamens.— Long, with large chocolate anthers. 



Style. — Long, with deep-red stigma. 



There is in this splendid lily that has come to us out of the East, 

 an air of distinction as if belonging to a caste apart. Unques- 

 tionably the most magnificent lily of the genus— superb, regal, in- 

 comparable—one may marshal all the adjectives and yet fall 



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