Genus 6. 



LILY FAMILY. 



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3. Lilium Catesbaei Walt. Southern Red Lily. 



Fig. 1257. 



Lilium Catesbaei Walt. Fl. Car. 123. 1788. 



Bulb i'-i' high, composed of narrow leaf-bearing 

 scales, their leaves narrowly linear, 2'-4' long, often 

 falling away before the plant flowers. Stem slender, 

 i°-2° high; stem leaves all alternate, narrowly linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, erect or ap- 

 pressed, i'-j' long, i"-3" wide; flower (always?) soli- 

 tary, erect; perianth-segments scarlet with a yellow 

 purple-spotted base and a slender claw, spreading or 

 somewhat recurved, 3'-$' long, i'-i' wide, long-acumi- 

 nate, wavy-margined; capsule 1' high or less; seeds 

 2"- 3 " long. 



In moist pine barrens, North Carolina to Florida and Ala- 

 bama. Reported from Kentucky, southern Illinois and Mis- 

 souri. July-Aug. 



4. Lilium canadense L. Wild Yellow Lily. 

 Canada or Nodding Lily. Fig. 1258. 



Lilium canadense L. Sp. PI. 303. 1753. 



Bulbs subglobose, 1-2' in diameter, borne on a 

 stout rootstock, composed of numerous thick 

 white scales. Stem 2°-5° tall, slender or stout; 

 leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, verticil- 

 late in 4's-io's or some of them alternate, acu- 

 minate, 2'-6' long, 3"-is" wide, finely roughened 

 on the margins and on the veins beneath ; flowers 

 1-16, nodding on long peduncles; peduncles 

 sometimes bearing a small leaf-like bract; peri- 

 anth-segments a'-3' long, yellow or red, usually 

 thickly spotted below, recurved or spreading, not 

 clawed; capsule oblong, erect, ii'-2' long. 



In swamps, meadows and fields, Nova Scotia to 

 Ontario, Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and 

 Nebraska. Ascends to 6000 ft. in North Carolina. 

 Red-flowered races with slightly spreading perianth- 

 segments resemble the following species, and races 

 with strongly recurved segments, L. superbum. 

 Field- or meadow-lily. June-July. 



5. Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Asa Gray's Lily. 

 Fig. 1259. 



Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 256. 1879. 



Rootstock bearing small subglobose bulbs with 

 thick ovate scales. Stem slender, 2°-3° high; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, 2'-4' long, J'-i' wide, 

 verticillate in 3's-8's or the lowest commonly 

 smaller and scattered, all finely roughened on the 

 veins beneath; flowers 1-3, long-peduncled, spread- 

 ing or slightly drooping, 2'-3' long, red or tinged 

 with yellow at the base; perianth-segments oblong- 

 spatulate, not clawed, acute, spotted; capsule fig- 

 shaped, about ii' high. 



Peaks of Otter, Virginia, and on the higher mountain 

 summits in North Carolina. July-Aug. 



