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trouble, but they are well worth undergoing, as most Lilies, if established, 

 become a delight every season. 



I think the nomenclature of Lilies might perhaps admit of some 

 simplification. There are individuals among certain groups which may 

 be mere varieties and not require specific names. Such may be the case 

 in the groups of L. auratum, longiflormn (fig. 214), Thunhergiamcm, 

 tigrinum, and many others. 



Two Lilies — the one found in the Old World and the other in the 

 New — may have somewhat different characters, but it does not follow 

 therefore that their ancestors did not originally come from the same pod. 

 It should not be forgotten that a dehiscing ripe pod in one place might 

 possibly be caught by a cyclone, and its light- mnged seeds sucked up in 

 the upper regions of the atmosphere, and, like the dust of Krakatoa, 

 eventually deposited hundreds of miles away, even across the Atlantic, 

 If any of them germinated, and their descendants were discovered 

 centuries afterwards, they would probably be given specific names. 



The question then arises. Ought two closely-related Lilies to have 

 different specific names simply because the one was discovered in Asia 

 and the other in America, or elsewhere ? In such a case they would be 

 mere varieties, o's\ing to difference in the constitution of the seeds even of 

 the same pod, and the climate and other conditions in which they had 

 become naturalised. 



