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WILD YELLOW LILY. MEADOW LILY. 
Lilium Canadénse. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lily. Yellow, spotted with  Scentless. New England, south- June, July. 
rich brown. ward and westward. 
Flowers: terminal; solitary, or a few; nodding. ertanth: of six, deeply 
parted divisions that curve towards the base, where there is a honey-bearing 
spot. Stamens: six. Fistil: one; stigma, three-lobed. Leaves: whorled 
about the stem; narrowly oblong; parallel-veined. Stem: erect, trom a scaly 
bulb. 
When we walk in the meadows and read the aristocracy of 
the flowers we find that the golden lilies are very noble. They 
seem to have none of the democratic, bohemian instincts of our 
pretty chicory and its playmates. They are so grave and 
dignified. No doubt fate has whispered to them that they were 
only to nod their heads through the ages of poetry, or to en- 
courage the beautiful in art. And their influence is very far 
reaching; sometimes whole meadows will be radiant with them 
as they extend their way down to the marshes. 
Of about fifty species of the north temperate zone, the 
meadow lily is one of the five that are native to the eastern 
United States. 
L. Carolinianum, or the Carolina lily, (Plate XX XV/IT) is very 
slight in its variations from the meadow lily; although a still 
more gorgeous flower. The leaves are broader and its orange- 
red colour is tipped with a highly brilliant crimson. The spots 
that colour the longitudinal anthers are of the darker brown. 
TURK’S-CAP LILY. 
Lilium supérbum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lily. Orange, spotted with Scentless. Maineto Minnesota, July, August. 
purple. and southward. 
Flowers: nodding; growing in a pyramidal cluster of three to forty blos- 
soms arranged in rows. Ferianth: of six, recurved divisions. Stamens: six ; 
anthers, linear, attached at the middle. Pyst//: one; stigma, three-lobed. 
Leaves: whorled; sessile; lanceolate. Stem: often eight feet high. 
Perhaps we have no other flower so truly majestic in its bearing 
as the Turk’s-cap lily. It is very generous of its bloom and is 

