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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. XIII, No. 6, 
Liliatce. 
2. Lilium L. Lily. 
Tall bulbous herbs with short rhizomes and simple, leafy 
stems; flowers erect or drooping, showy, bisporangiate; perianth 
funnel form of 6 separate, spreading or recurved segments, all 
alike, or nearly so, nectar bearing; stamens 6, extrorse; anthers, 
versatile; style elongated; stigma 3 lobed; capsule loculicidal. 
1. Perianth segments not clawed, flowers drooping or spreading. 2. 
1. Perianth segments narrowed into long claws, flowers erect. 3. 
2. Leaves smooth, perianth segments recurved. L. superbum. 
2. Leaves roughened or tuberculate on the veins beneath; perianth seg¬ 
ments recurved or spreading. L. canadense. 
3. Leaves mostly whorled, lanceolate or linear lanceolate. 
L. philadelphicum. 
3. Leaves, all but the uppermost, -scattered, narrowly linear. 
L. umbellatum. 
1. Lilium superbum L. Turk’s-cap Lily. Stem 2-7>2 feet 
high; leaves lanceolate, smooth, acuminate at both ends, lower 
leaves whorled; one-to-many-flowered, flowers drooping or spread¬ 
ing, orange, yellow-orange or rarely red, purple spotted, long 
peduncled, fonnimg large panicles; perianth segments recurved. 
In meadows and marshes. Reported for Erie County. Mosley’s 
herbarium. 
2. Lilium canadense L. Canada Lily. Stem 2-6 feet high; 
leaves remotely whorled, lanceolate, 3 nerved, roughened or 
tuberculate on the veins beneath; flowers drooping or spreading, 
long peduncled, yellow or orange, usually spotted with brown; 
perianth segments recurved or spreading. In swamps or meadows. 
General. 
3. Lilium philadelphicum L. Philadelphia Lily. Stem 1^2- 
3 feet high; leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly whorled; flowers 1-3, 
erect, reddish orange, spotted with purple inside; perianth seg¬ 
ments narrowed into long claws. Dry or sandy soil. Fulton, 
Lucas, Sandusky, Erie. 
4. Lilium umbellatum Pursh. Western Red Lily. Similar 
to L. philadelphicum, but more slender; leaves, all but the upper¬ 
most scattered, narrowly linear; flowers 1-3, red, orange or yellow, 
spotted below; erect, perianth segments narrowed into claws, 
shorter than the blade. In dry soil on prairies. Stark County. 
3. Erythronium L. Dog-tooth Lily. 
Nearly stemless herbs arising from a deep bulb, stem bearing 
two smooth, spotted leaves with sheathing petioles and one 
nodding flower at the top; perianth of 6 lanceolate, recurved or 
spreading divisions; anthers oblong-linear, style elongated; 
capsule obovoid, contracted near the base. 
1. Flowers yellow; stigmas very short. E. americanum. 
1. Flowers white or pinkish 'white; stigmas longer, spreading and more 
recurved. E. albidum. 
