RED AND ORANGE FLOWERS 
GROUP II 
Leaves whorled. 
Wood Lily {Lilivim pkiladelphicum) . Lily family. Summer. 
An upright unbranched stem, with maximum height of three 
feet, bears at the top a large (two to four inches) flower, with 
six sepals, red, purple-spotted inside, long-clawed; stamens six 
There are four to six leaves in a whorl. Dry ground. 
Wake Robin {Trillium erectuni). Lily family. Spring. 
A perennial with stem about a foot high, bearing three leaves 
in a whorl, almost without stalks. From their junction rises 
a stalk one to three inches long bearing a large flower (one 
and one-half to three inches wide) with three sepals, three 
petals. Trillium sessile is similar but without flower-stalk. 
Woods. 
-Turk's-cap Lily {Lilium superbum). Lily family. Summer. 
A tall single stem, several feet high, bears at the top a number 
of flowers in a cluster. The flowers (three inches long) are 
drooping, with six perianth-divisions curved backward, and 
six stamens. The leaves are lance-shaped, pointed. Rich 
ground. 
The Lilium superbum is not to be confounded ^^dth the Day 
Lily (Hemerocallis fulva), which is of a deep orange, has a half 
dozen or more blossoms on a stalk, and long, flat, upright 
leaves from the base only. The Day Lily has so far escaped from 
cultivation that Mathews includes it among the wild flowers. 
It grows freely by the roadside in low ground in central Con- 
necticut. 
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