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Wild Yellow Lily; Canada or Nodding Lily 

 Lilium canadense Linnaeus 



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Stems 2 to 5 feet tall, from a stout rool tock bearing several subglobose, 



scaly, white bulbs. Leaves in whorls of tour to ten or some of them alter- 

 nate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 6 inches long, one- 

 fourth to i j inches wide, finely roughened on the margins and on the 

 veins beneath. Flowers one to sixteen, nodding on long peduncles at the 

 top of the stem; perianth segments 2 to 3 inches long, yellow or red. usually 

 thickly spotted, recurved or spreading; fruit an oblong, erect capsule 1 to 2 

 inches long. 



Common in swamps, moist meadows, and fields, Nova Scotia to 

 Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska. Flowering in July and 

 August. A common and most attractive wild flower of the east, more 

 abundant than the Turk's-cap Lily (Lilium superb urn Linnaeus), 

 which has similar but usually larger flowers, usually orange-red and purple- 

 spotted, more strongly recurved flower segments and leaves smooth and 

 not roughened on the margins or veins asinL. canadense. 



Yellow Adder's-tongue ; Dog's-tooth Violet 

 Erythronium americanum Ker 



Plate 15a 



A low, herbaceous plant arising from a deeply buried conn which 

 propagates by offshoots; the simple stem 6 to 12 inches long, bearing a pair 

 of equal or somewhat unequal, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, flat leaves, 

 dark glossy green, usually mottled with brown, sometimes green all over, 

 narrowed into clasping petioles; the flower stem arising from between 

 the leaves, bearing a single nodding flower; perianth yellow or rarely 

 purplish-tinged, the segments oblong, seven-eighths to 2 inches long, about 

 one-fourth of an inch wide or less, recurved, dotted within, the three inner 

 ones auricled at the base; style club-shaped; capsule obovoid. 



