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foreign pollen. Moreover my lilies did not come into bloom 
simultaneously, but one after the other. The capsules being far 
from well known in all the species, I fertilized the flowers (with 
which I was better acquainted) as they expanded themselves. I 
did this when possible with the pollen of their own species, but of 
a difi'erent individual, or, failing this, with the flower's own pollen. 
The latter was the most frequent ; yet the capsule was fully 
developed in most cases, although it contained fewer seeds ; it is 
well known, however, that in the Liliacece self-fertilization is re- 
puted to be more successful than in other families*. 
Lilium davuricvM, Crawler {L. spectahile, Link), and L. hulbi- 
ferum, L., the two species which are the subject of this paper, 
were amongst the earliest which flowered with me. Both are 
described by numerous recent authors as forms of one and 
the same speciesf. They admit, however, of being distinguished 
from one another by difi'erences which lie in organs the study 
of which in the genus Lilium has hitherto been very much 
neglected, namely the bulb and the fruit. 
The bulb of L. hulliferum is firm and compact, and composed 
of numerous pointed scales closely and tightly packed in many 
rows. The outer scales are attached by their broadest part, 
and are gradually attenuated to a point; the inner scales are 
slightly contracted above the base, and are widened out again 
towards the apex. 
Taking in the hand for comparison a bulb of L. davuricimy 
its loose structure immediately strikes us with surprise ; it 
allows mere pressure to crush the whole bulb into separate 
scales. These are smaller and are curved away from one another, 
so that the arrangement is imbricated, and the scales can be dis- 
tinctly counted, while in the former species only the extreme 
points of the inner scales are visible. 
The author describes minutely the form of the scales. Even 
* With L. tigrinum alone I have failed in producing fruit even in the open 
air, and after cross-fertilizing numerous individuals. The reason was, perhaps, 
because I neglected at first to break off the small axillary bulbs ; and afterwards 
it had become too late in the autumn. 
t Asa Grray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. vi. p. 415 ; Miquel, Proc. M. Jap. 320 ; 
very recently, again, Baker's new synopsis of the genus Lilium, Gard. Chron., 1871, 
p. 1034. [Miquel separates the two plants in the Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat. iii. 166 ; 
Baker also keeps them apart as subspecies, relying upon the absence of axillary 
bulbs in L. davuricum as the main distinction, — Tr.] 
