HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



in a panicle. The 3 outer divisions of the perianth are flat, the 

 3 inner obtuse, wavy. 



This lily has left the old gardens, escaped to roadsides and 

 fence-corners, where it leads a Bohemian sort of life. It 

 grows tall, and bears several blossoms, short-pedicelled, with 

 small bracts. Stamens large and prominent. The blossoms 

 last a day only, and then wither. 



The yellow, sweet-scented lily (H, flava) should also be 

 noticed as occasionally escaping from cultivation into a wild 

 state. 



Tiger Lily 



Lilium tigrinum. — A garden species, tall, 2 to 5 feet, stout- 

 stemmed, leafy to the base, often found in the fence-corners 

 and along roadsides, growing wild. The stem is nearly black or 

 dark purple, bearing black bulblets in the upper leaf-axils, which 

 sometimes throw out rootlets. Leaves, lance-shaped, with promi- 

 nent ribs and entire outlines, alternate. Flowers, often numerous, 

 large, drooping, with orange - spotted, turned - back sepals. It 

 has 1 long pistil and 6 stamens, projecting and spreading. 



Wild Orange-red Lily. Wood Lily 



L. philadilphicum. — Family, Lily. Color, deep, reddish orange, 

 with darker, brownish-red spots inside. Flowers, 1 to 3, more 

 often single, erect, the 6 equal segments of the perianth narrowed 

 into claws, spreading but not drooping backward. Stamens, 6, 

 prominent, with anthers hung in the middle. Style, long, showing 

 above the stamens, with, when ripe, a 3-lobed stigma. Capsules, 

 large, 2 inches long, filled with many seeds. Leaves, long, nar- 

 row, whorled on the stem or scattered below. A simple, stout 

 stem arises from a scaly bulb, bearing the flowers in June and 

 July. 



In dry, open woods, or along the borders of thickets in 

 sandy soil. A strikingly handsome lily, 3 or 4 inches long, 

 of fine, rich color, making solid pretensions to elegance. 

 Every one who sees it growing in the woods is seized w r ith 

 an intense desire to pick the entire stem, often dragging 

 up the bulb — a sure way to exterminate this queen of the 

 woods. (See illustration, p. 151.) 



Turk's-cap Lily 



L. saperbvm. — Color, dark orange, spotted with red. Perianth 

 of 6 segments, rolled back. Stamens, 6, with linear anthers lightly 

 attached at their middle to slender filaments. Style, thick, bear- 

 ing a 3-lobed stigma. Flowers, nodding, arranged in rows, one 



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