Litiacee —Litium. 509 
almost touching the pedicel. Stamens widely spreading; 
pollen reddish. A native of Central and Southern Europe and 
Western Asia. L. maculdtum is a native of North-eastern 
Asia and North-western America. It is a glabrous plant with 
bright red flowers remarkable for the short style. 
12. L. Canadénse.—Stem 14 to 3 feet high. Leaves mostly 
whorled, 2 to 4inches long, lancvolate, acute, glabrous. Flowers 
about 4 to 6, sub-umbellate on long drooping pedicels. Perianth- 
segments lanceolate, acute, about 14 inch long, spreading but 
not reflexed. The flowers vary from bright red to pale yellow, 
and are more or less copiously spotted with purple-brown. 
L. parviflérum is a variety in which the perianth-segments are 
reflexed. L. Humbéldtii is a taller-growing form with much 
larger orange-yellow carmine-spotted racemose flowers. JL. 
Walkeri and L. Hartwégti are also referred here by Mr. Baker, 
as is also L. supérbum, a magnificent plant 4 to 6 feet high 
with more numerous longer leaves and larger flowers with very 
much reflexed segments. L. Carolivictarwm, Michaux (L. au- 
tumnale of Loddiges), is intermediate letween the last and 
the typical LZ. Canadénse. 
13. L. monadélphum.—sStem about 3 to 5 feet high, glabrous 
or slightly pubescent. Leaves scattered, numerous, 5- to 7-nerved, 
linear-lanceolate, the lower ones 3 to 4 inches long. Flowers 
pale yellow spotted with carmine; segments of the perianth 
reflexed from above the middle. Filaments connate at the 
base. L. Szovitsidnwm, syn. L. Colchicum, is very near this, 
and associated with it by Mr. Baker, but the filaments are 
quite free, and it is said to flower two months earlier than L. 
monadélphum. Both forms are from the Caacasus and quite 
hardy in this country. 
14. L. Carnidlicum.—Stem 2 to 3 feet high, stout, glabrous. 
Leaves scattered, linear-lanceolate, thick in texture and dis- 
tinetly ciliated. Flowers about 4 to 6, pendulous, bright orange 
or scarlet. Perianth-segments 14 to 2 inches long and 6 to 9 
lines broad, reflexed from near the base. A handsome species 
from South-eastern Europe, rare in British gardens. 
L. Pénticum, from Asia Minor, has much narrower perianth- 
segments; and L. polyphyllwm is an Indian species of which 
little is known. 
15. L. Chaleedénicwm (fig. 250).—Stem erect, 2 to 3 feet 
high, densely clothed with short ascending or appressed 3- to 5- 
nerved slightly hairy leaves, the lower ones 2 to 3 inches long. 
