ON LILIES 



dwarfs. In striking contrast to hybrids of the 

 pardalinum with other native lilies, none of them 

 grew more than a foot in height and many of them 

 not over six inches. 



These dwarfs were rendered all the more strik- 

 ing by the fact that the miniature lilies reproduced 

 in many respects the characteristics of their South 

 American parent. 



Another interesting hybridization was that 

 effected between the pardalinum and a species of 

 the native trillium, a plant familiar in our woods 

 under the name of drooping night-shade. 



The trillium is, of course, a lily, but, like 

 Alstroemeria, it belongs to a different genus from 

 the leopard lily, and its strikingly different appear- 

 ance has already been referred to. 



The hybrids produced by this strange union 

 were dwarfs with broad, lily-like foliage, with blos- 

 soms that resembled those of the trillium — having 

 three very broad, flat, greenish-white or yellow 

 petals, and three narrower petals, like sepals. 



A plant that thus bore a close resemblance as to 

 foliage and general appearance to the leopard lily, 

 yet which had blossoms like those of the wake- 

 robin (though somewhat larger and coarser) made 

 a very striking and interesting exhibit. 



The species of trillium used in, this cross was 

 the common native Trillium ovatum. 



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