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LILIUM AURATUM, VARIETIES— Continued. 
yellow bands being shaded or tinged with 
Q-iTw^Vtif ® ‘loekly spotted with bright reddish crimson. 7«. GrI. 
„nl h y rich-looking and attraotive flower ; the petals have an intensely deep 
golden bar shaded with crimson towards the tip, and the whole of the flower is very thickly 
covered with large rich bright crimson spots. 10^. 6(L J J 
et'-iking that it presents a charming con- 
trast to the other varieties of auratum. The flowers are pure white, with the exception of the 
ye ow rays, which are unusually brilliant, and a few scattered spots of pale lemon colour. Inter- 
mixed with other varieties, the appearance of this lovely kind is truly beautiful. 
LILIUM COLCHICUM. 
wUh bfaor^f kandsome Caucasian species are of a rich citron ooleur, spotted 
LILIUM HUMBOLDTII. 
Humboldt County, California, growing about 5 feet high, and producing 
largo golden yellow flowers, which are spotted with purple. 15s. ® 
^ LILIUM LEICHTLINII. 
A. ckarming Japanese Lily, of small slender growth, usually about 2 to 3 feet high. The stem 
is clothed with hnear-lancoolate leaves. The flowers are of a clear pale golden yeUow colour, thickly 
spotted with purple, and haring the segments gracefully recurved. 7s. Qd. 
LILIUM LONGIFLORUM ALBO-MARGINATUM. 
This interesting new Lily has been recently imported from Japan. The loaves have a distinct and 
even narrow border of white, which adds considerably to the interest of the plant, while the habit 
of growth IS similar to that of L. longijlorum, and the flowers also are pure white, as in that species. 
It forms a very pretty and desirable novelty amongst Japan Lilies. Is. Gd, 
LILIUM THUNBERGIANUM BICOLOR. 
A handsome ha,rdy Lily, growing about 1 ft. high, with erect flowers, which measure about 
inches in expansion, and have the tips of the segments recurved. The sepaline divisions of the 
perianth are about an inch, the petaline over an inch and a half broad, all of a bright orange red 
with a distinct flame of orange up the centre of each, and a few dark coloured dots on the petaline 
divisions, an having a pubescent furrow at the base. It has been imported from Japan, and has 
received a Certificate from the Royal Botanic Society. 7^. Gd. 
LILIUM THUNBERGIANUM FLORE-PLENO. 
A beautiful and distinct hardy Lily, growing a foot or more in height, and bearing two flowers at 
the top of the stem, which is clothed with lance-shaped leaves 3 to 4 inches long. The flowers are 
of a deep fiery rod, partially dotted with black spots, 6 inches broad, the segments recurved, and 
having m the centre, in place of stamens, six erect obovate-spathulate petaloid filaments, which are 
deeply bifid with the anther seated in the cleft. These petaloid bodies are somewhat stained with 
crimson and partly dotted, the edges being paler. The bulbs were imported from Japan. 15s. 
LILIUM THUNBERGIANUM MARMORATUM. 
This IS a very distinct form of a fine hardy Lily, obtained from Japan. The flowers are of a deep 
orange red, with irregular tawny stains on all the divisions, giving them a mottled appearance 
while the segments are stout and smooth-edged, and marked with a few spots of black near the 
nectary furrow, which is very distinctly downy. The petaline segments of the perianth are some- 
what larger than tho sepaline divisions, ovate, obtuse, and clawed. It is about 1 ft. in height. 5s. 
LILIUM THUNBERGIANUM PUNCTATUM. 
A remarkably attractive and very dwarf-growing hardy Lily, rarely e.xceeding 9 or 10 inches in 
height. The flowers are erect, and of a rich dark crimson colour, conspicuously marbled and 
mottled with orange and yellow ; tho segments are pointed, and being much darker at the base 
than at the tips they give the flower the appearance of having a dark centre. It has been introduced 
from Japan. 15s. 
LILIUM TIGRINUM FLORE-PLENO. 
This attraotive variety produces beautiful double flowers of a bright orange scarlet colour • the 
segments are thickly studded with dark brown spots, except at the tips, which are recurved’. It 
as been introduced from Japan, and is a novel and extremely handsome variety. It was figured in 
2/10 Flortst and Pomologht for February, 1871. 155. 
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