Litiacce— Lilium. 507 
to 2 inches broad, lower ones 7- to 9-ribbed. Flowers 4 to 6 
inches in diameter, 3 to 6 or more, corymbose, on long sub- 
erect bracteate pedicels. Perianth-segments 3 to 5 inches long, 
spreading from the base, and more or less covered on the lower 
half inside with papillose tubercles. Filaments variable in 
length; pollen deep red or yellowish. As a cultivated plant 
itis very variable in the colour of its flowers—white spotted or 
tinged with carmine or rose, or wholly white. There are many 
named varieties, as dlbum, punctatum, rubrum, ete. It isa 
native of Japan, and totally different from the true D. lanci- 
folvwm. 
9. L. wurutum.—tThis is perhaps the most gorgeous of all 
the Lilies, and one of the greatest acquisitions of recent years. 
Its purplish stems rise to a height of 2 to 5 feet and they are 
clothed with lanceolate shortly petiolate 5- to 7-nerved glabrous 
leaves from 6 to 9 inches long. Flowers very large, from 6 to 
10 inches in diameter, 3 to 6 or many more on each stem. 
Perianth-segments spreading, 5 to 7 inches long, papillose within 
below the middle. This species is very variable in the colour- 
ing of its flowers. Im the original variety the petals are pure 
white with a yellow band down the centre and scattered car- 
mine spots, but scarcely two seedling plants can be found 
exactly alike in the disposition of the colours. Japan. 
L. Philadélphicum is a North American species with the 
leaves usually in distinct whorls and orange-red flowers spotted 
with purple. It is near L. bulbiferwm, but the stems are never 
cottony and the perianth-segments are distinctly clawed. L. 
medeoluudes is a Japanese species with whoerled leaves and 
small reddish-yellow spotted flowers. L. Cateshw@i, syn. L. 
spectabile of Salisbury, and L. Carolinianum of Catesby, not of 
Michaux, isa tender North American species remarkable for 
the long slender claw of the perianth-segments. Flowers 
orange-red spotted with purple. 
10. L. bulbiferwm.—Under this we include several forms, 
all characterised by having scattered linear-lanceolate leaves, 
commonly bulbiliferous in their axils, and few erect flowers 
with distinctly clawed spreading not recurved perianth-seg- 
ments. The true L. bulbiferwm has cottony stems, bulbili- 
ferous leaves, and reddish-yellow flowers. The sub-species 
erdceum (fig. 249), Orange Lily, differs in the upper leaves 
being destitute of bulblets, and the flowers of a more decided 
erange-colour, never searlet or crimson. Both of these are 
