DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 263 
All our native Lilies are beautiful, and very much im- 
proved by cultivation. While we are bringing together, 
from the ends of the earth, the treasures of Flora, let not 
our own be neglected. These may be taken from our 
fields and meadows, when in bloom, by carefully taking 
them up with a ball of earth, and in a few years will 
richly repay the trouble. 
L. supérbum.—Superb Lily—One of the most magni- 
ficent of our native plants; not common in the vicinity 
of Boston, but in many parts of the State, and in New 
York, is abundant. Stem erect, straight, from three to 
six feet high, bearing a large pyramid of orange-colored 
flowers, not unfrequently numbering, when cultivated, 
thirty or forty. The flowers are much refiexed. They 
are found in many varieties, with flowers from a yellow 
to an orange scarlet; in bloom in July. 
L. Canadénse.— Nodding Meadow Lily. — This fine 
Lily may be found embellishing our meadows in June, 
when it rarely produces more than from one to five mod- 
est, nodding, but showy flowers, on stems one to three 
feet high. It is very much improved by cultivation, and, 
when planted in rich ground, has been known to grow 
five feet high, with a pyramid of at least twenty of its 
pendulous flowers; color from yellow to deep orange 
scarlet. The flowers are profusely spotted with brown, 
on the inside, and are but little reflexed. 
L. Philadélphicum.—The Common Red Lily of our 
pastures and dry fields; equal, if not superior, in beauty, 
to L. Canadense, but of a different habit. Its height 
rarely exceeds two feet, with one to three flowers, the pe- 
tals of which are supported on a long claw; upright, of 
a dark vermillion color, richly spotted with black. The 
flowers are bell-shaped; in bloom in July. This species 
may, no doubt, be as greatly improved by cultivation as 
LT. Canadense. Vt would then form one of the most 
