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2. Lilium canadensis L. Sp. PL 303. 1753. Wild Yellow Lily. Can- 
ada Lily. 
Bulbs 1 — 2 inches in diameter, subglobose, made up of many thick 
white scales, borne on a stout rootstock; stem 2 — 5 feet high, slender or 
stout; leaves verticillate in 4’s to lO’s, usually a few alternate, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering to the base, 2 — 6 inches long, 
3 — 15 lines wide, finely roughened on the margins and on the veins 
beneath; flowers on long peduncles, 1 — 16, nodding, the peduncles occa- 
sionally with a leaf-like bract; perianth-segments 2 — 3 inches long, yellow 
or red, recurved or spreading, not clawed, usually thickly spotted below; 
capsule oblong, erect, between one and two inches long. The type locality 
'is: ‘'HaMtat in Canada.” 
This species is reported to range- from Nova Scotia to Ontario and 
Minnesota, south to Georgia, Alabama and Missouri. In Iowa the species 
may be said to be infrequent, though occasionally it is frequent locally. 
It is fairly well distributed throughout the State. The flowers appear 
in June and July. The prevailing habitat is low moist prairie soil, but 
the species may be found in meadows along borders or sometimes in 
open woods. In some counties the species seem to thrive in the undis- 
turbed prairie soil along the railways. 
Specimens in the writer’s herbarium are from Winneshiek, Johnson, 
Jefferson, Appanoose, Decatur and Emmet counties. The species was 
noted in Muscatine, Montgomery, Palo Alto, Kossuth, Wright, Hardin, 
Grundy, Tama, Benton and Linn counties. The State University herbar- 
ium has specimens from the additional counties of Lee, Chickasaw, Fre- 
mont and Page counties. Professor Pammel reported the species from 
Woodbury county; Professor Pink from Fayette county; Professor Hitch- 
cock from Story county; and Barnes, Reppert and Miller from Scott 
county. 
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Natural Sciences, Vol. 1, p. 164, 1876. 
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5, p. 520, 1892. 
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part 3, p. 60, 1893 ; Vol. 3, 1895, p. 134, 1896. 
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103, 1897. 
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5, p. 130, 1898. 
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1897, Vol. 5, p. 166, 1898; Vol. 6, 1898, p. 198, 1899. 
