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FLORA AND SYLVA 
flowers which form the subject of the 
coloured plate. This shows Li Hum 
myriophyllum and L,. siitchiie7ie?ise : a 
detailed account of the other two kinds 
is held over to appear with a second 
plate in a future issue of Flora. A 
melancholy interest attaches to these 
plates, as being the last drawings made 
by Mr. Moon before his death. 
h. sutchuenense. — This species is common 
on the rocky grass-clad mountain slopes of the 
Chino-Tibetan border, between 7,000 and 
9,000 feet. It is also frequently cultivated in 
these regions by the peasants, on the tops of 
walls and the roofs of their houses, the bulbs 
being cooked and eaten. This fact is interest- 
ing, the only Lily-bulbs hitherto known to 
be eaten by the Chinese being those of L. 
tigrinum. A good idea of this Lily may be 
obtained by likening it to a miniature form 
of the old Tiger Lily, but with no bulbils, 
narrower leaves, and flowers on very long 
horizontal stalks. The plant first flowered at 
Kew in July 1 899, having been received from 
Messrs. Vilmorin, to whom Pere Farges sent 
seeds. In 1904 the writer sent home to 
Messrs. Veitch a quantity of bulbs which flow- 
ered freely during the past summer, plants 
being exhibited before the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society in July last, which gained an 
award of merit. The elegant foliage and bril- 
liant flowers found many admirers. It is too 
early to speak with certainty, but so far as one 
can judge the plant promises to stay with us. 
The flowering habit of this graceful plant is 
seen in the engraving over-leaf — page 329. 
Bulb small, flattish-ovoid, white slightly tinged with 
pink. Stems i\ to 3 feet, densely pilose, with tufts of 
cottony hairs in the axils of the leaves. Leaves very 
numerous, linea", prominently one-nerved, this nerve 
scabrid below ; margins toothed and scabrid ; whole leaf 
puberulous and covered with crystalline dots. Stems, 
for 6 to 8 inches below the flowers, naked save for one or 
two scattered leaves. Flowers racemose, i to 18, small, 
in shape like L. tigrinum. Colour bright scarlet, with 
black spots which are more abundant in the lower half of 
the segments. These spots vary greatly in numbers and 
are occasionally wanting. Flower stalks 3 to 6 inches 
long, horizontally spreading, each bearing one (rarely 
more) leaf-like bract. Flower buds more or less covered 
with white fluffy hairs, especially while young. Stamens, 
filaments, and style tinged with red ; anthers at first same 
colour as flowers, becoming slightly darker as they mature; 
stigma simple, chocolate-brown. 
Lilium myriophyllum. — This new and hand- 
some species is allied to L. leucanthum., from 
which it is distinguished by its narrow one- 
nerved leaves densely crowded on the stems, 
and the absence of bulbils. The flowers also 
present minor differences. This species is 
common on rocky scrub-clad mountain sides 
in Western China, between 3,000 and 6,000 
feet. It is an especial feature of some of the 
warm dry river-valleys of the Chino-Tibetan 
border, and is the handsomest of the Brownii 
group. A full-sized bloom of Lilium myrio- 
phyllum is well shown by the engraving upon 
the opposite page. 
Bulbs large, purple, and similar to those of L. lencan- 
thuin. Stem stout, \\ to 5 feet, greyish-green, very 
densely clad with leaves. Leaves linear-oblong, acumi- 
nate, 2 to 5 inches long, recurved, with the single nerve 
usually hispid on the underside. Leaves immediately 
below the flowers whorled, and elliptic-lanceolate in 
shape. Inflorescence umbellate. Flowers large, fragrant, 
funnel-shaped, 5 to 6 inches long, horizontally disposed : 
marked with purple after the manner of L. Brownii on 
the outside ; inside of tube canary-yellow for two-thirds of 
its length, and the rest of the flower of the purest white. 
Stamens and pistil equal in length and reaching to the 
mouth of the corolla. Stamen filaments pilose in the 
lower half ; anthers golden. 
E. H. WILSON. 
SOME BRITISH ALPINES. 
Despite the vast number of Alpine 
plants that have reached us from the 
mountains of Europe, Asia, and Amer- 
ica, there are few more beautiful and 
none more interesting than those found 
on our own rocks and fells. Beside 
their intrinsic charm these haveafurther 
claim as being our natural neighbours, 
though not always any the less exacting 
and capricious than their cousins from 
oversea. Many of these are well known , 
but a few notes on some of our rarer 
British plants may not be unwelcome. 
An excellent garden might indeed be 
made, containing only native species 
whose garden value has never been 
sufficiently recognised. In such a gar- 
den, beside the more showy things, 
such as Ge7itia?ta ver7ia — which we 
share with the great mountain ranges 
