Litiacee—Lilium. 511 
L. Maximowiczii, syn. L. pseudo-tigrinum, is very near the 
last, but the stems are tinged with purple and somewhat cot- 
tony, and the ground colour of the flower is a brilliant scarlet. 
Japan ? 
19. L. Pomponium, syn. L. angustifoliwm.—aAn old inha- 
bitant of our gardens, and one of the prettiest of the moderate- 
sized species. It has an erect finely-furrowed rigid stem and 
very numerous short narrow l-nerved linear leaves 14 to 2 lines 
broad in the middle, attenuated towards both ends and in- 
curved at the margin. Flowers pendulous, 1 to 8, or usually 
more in cultivation, in a thyrsoid raceme, the lower pedicels 3 
to 4 inches long. Perianth-segments lanceolate, reflexed from 
below the middle, hairy at the tip and slightly papillose within. 
I*lowers more or less spotted with black .on a scarlet, orange- 
scarlet, yellow or white ground. A native of Lombardy, Savoy, 
and neighbouring districts. 
20. L. tenuifolium, syn. L. linifolium, L. pimiluwm.—aA 
very dwarf slender species from 6 to 12 inches high with nu- 
merous glabrous Hinear-subulate minutely-toothed leaves and 1 
or 2 or more nodding flowers. Perianth-segments lanceolate- 
spathulate, 14 to 16 lines long, spreading from near the base and 
distinctly clawed, bright scarlet, rarely spotted. This very 
beautiful little plant is a native of Siberia and China. 
7. HEMEROCALLIS., 
Herbaceous plants from the temperate parts of Europe and 
Asia, with fleshy, tuberous, or bulbiform rhizomes and long 
narrow radical slightly equitant keeled leaves, from the centre 
of which rises a leafless flower-stem. Flowers in corymbs some- 
thing similar to those of some Lilies, but differing from them in 
having the six leaves of -the perianth united at the base into a 
narrow tube enclosing the free ovary; capsule several-seeded. 
“Hyuepoxadris is the Greek name of this genus of plants, and 
signifies ‘ beauty of a day’ or ‘ephemeral beauty ’ in allusion 
to the duration of the individual flowers. Hence also the 
English name Day Lily. 
Two species of this genus are commonly cultivated, and are 
useful in planting in shrubberies or where large clumps are 
required ; for though the individual flowers last but a day or 
two, they succeed one another for a considerable time. The 
flowering season is from June to August; and they are per- 
fectly hardy. 
