ON LILIES 



Elliottiana, R. Pentlandi, R. melanoleuca, R. Nel- 

 sonii, and R. Rehmanni. These were all hybrid- 

 ized with one another, and with the species that 

 previously was in hand. 



Among these complex hybrids were plants that 

 were unique in form and foliage and flower. 



The blossoms varied in color not only in the 

 different hybrid plants, but sometimes an individ- 

 ual blossom would be partly deep purple, partly 

 deep yellow, and in part almost white. Sometimes 

 the colors were mottled or orange in stripes, but 

 usually the purple color appeared in the throat of 

 the flower. 



The purple is apparently a combined inheritance 

 from the Elliottiana, Rehmanni and melanoleuca; 

 and the hastata also has a faint touch of it. The 

 yellow is heritage from hastata and Elliotiani. 



These plants varied as much in size as in qual- 

 ity of flower. Some of them grew three and a half 

 feet in height, others only eight or ten inches. In 

 some cases the foliage and stalks were smooth and 

 in others actually hairy, covered with soft ex- 

 crescences of thorn-like appearance. Some of the 

 hybrids were very easy to raise, but most of them 

 very difficult. 



Among the freak forms that appeared in this 

 hybrid colony were plants bearing double and even 

 triple flowers, and others in which the flowers and 



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