THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
meadows and low grounds. Its flowers are turned toward 
the ground and there are usually several on a stem. It often 
grows thickly in meadows, though cut down year after year 
with the hay just as it is coming into flower. In the moun- 
tains of Virginia and North Carolina this has a resembling 
species in Lilium Grayi, named for the famous botanist. It 
may be distinguished from the common one by the fact that 
the perianth segments do not spread so widely. The turks- 
cap lily, well named Lilium supcrbiim, is our finest eastern 
lily. It should be sought in low grounds and on the banks 
of streams. In favorable situations it sends up a gigantic 
stem, which may produce thirty or more blossoms. Com- 
monly the flowers are not more than half a dozen in num- 
ber. This species has some resemblance to the meadow lily, 
Its flowers being of about the same color and also facing the 
earth, but it never need be confused with the meadow lily, 
because its perianth segments turn back, similar to those of 
the tiger-iily (L. tigriniim) of old-fashioned gardens. In 
tact, it is often called wild tiger-lily, from this resemblance. 
It. too, has a southern relative (L. Carolimanum) , which is 
slK.rter, with fewer flowers, and leaves (^f a different shape. 
This ends the list of the true lilies. Mention may be made, 
however, of the day lily ( Hcmcrocallis fiilra), a common 
escai^e from dd gardens in many parts of America. It may 
be known at .mce from the true lilies by the long flag-like 
leaves rising frum a stem that remains underground. The 
tw.) or three pale yellow-and-orange flowers rise on long 
s:a:ks and last but a short time. Its re:ati^e. the lemon lily 
fiaz-a), is still cultivated in gardens and nccasir>nally is 
' '-^ ""^ clear yelh.u blossoms distinguishes 
species which it otherwise closely re- 
"fnds upr^n the mere dictum of the 
- -g ago the lily-of-the-vallev and the 
