LILY FAMILY. LHiacea:. 



Turk's Cap . A less common, but most beautiful spe- 

 Liy cies remarkable for its completely reflexed 



8u l efbum petals, or rather sepals, which leave the 



Buff orange- handsome stamens, tipped by the brown 

 yellow anthers, fully exposed to view ; the flower- 



July-early CU p i s thickly freckled with brown, and 

 hangs in a half-drooping position. It is 

 also largely fertilized by bees, but is frequently visited 

 by the monarch butterfly (Anosia plexippus) of a tawny 

 and black color, whose favorite plant is the common 

 milkweed. The light green leaves of this lily hold 

 alternating positions at the upper part of the stem, but 

 are more or less in circles at the lower part. 3-7 feet 

 high. It is oftenest found in wet meadows not very far 

 from the coast, and it is distributed from Me. (rather rare) 

 and Mass. , south to N. Car. and Tenn., and west to Minn. 

 A similar species the flowers of which 

 Liliiun* ' have far less reflexed sepals, with perhaps 

 superbum, var. fewer spots. The leaves are darker green 

 Carolinianum and broader, rather blunt-lance-shaped. 



^ifow 811 ^" 2 ~ 3 feet high> Commonlv found in the 

 August dr y w ds and among the mountains. 



Va., south to Fla. and La. 



Tiger Lily ^ J a P anese species escaped from gar- 



Lilium dens, and commonly found beside old farm- 



tigrinum houses. Its leaves are lance-shaped and 



Orange-scarlet scat tered along a stiff, straight, cottony, 



dark-colored stem, with black bulblets at 

 the point where they join the plant-stem. The flower 

 sepals are strongly spotted and reflexed. Me. to N. Y. 



