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briglit red, or reddish orange, its segments spatulate, 
somewhat spreading, acnte or Idnntish, the blade ^-i 
inch wide, gradually narrowed into the rather short, 
thick, claw, lower half of blade, purple spotted, the 
capsnle obovoid-oval, club-shaped, thickest at top, 
13/-2 inches high. Although this handsome lily is 
a wild flower, it is nevertheless well worthy of a place 
in the flower garden, or park, and is very easily cul- 
tivated. No doubt forces well in house or green- 
house. Is a native from Maine to Ontario, south to 
North Carolina and West Virginia seeming to occa- 
sionally extend beyond these limits in isolated groups. 
One of my greatest surprises, was to find this species 
in bloom in a flower garden in Escanaba, Mich., in 
the summer of 1902. Upon inquiry found that the 
place was owned by a tug captain who made it his 
business to gather up the scattered logs from rafts 
that the fierce storms of that region had broken and 
scattered. He told me that there were islands in the 
upper portions of Green Bay upon which this species 
grew in the greatest abundance, forming beds of 
great beauty along the shores. The thing that puz- 
zles me is to know whether this species grows in the 
southern part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 
or northern portion of Lower Peninsula, thus con- 
necting with its Ontario habitants. Personally I 
have never met it on the mainland of either penin- 
sula. It is usuallv found in dry woods or thickets. 
LiluDii Nelson, JSIoiintaiii Red Lily. 
Western. Leaves broader. 
Liliuni Mosscyi. Massey's Red Lily. Perianth Seg- 
ments Narrower. Southern. 
This dainty little gem is one of the rarest and least 
known of all lilies. I doubt if it can be obtained of 
any florist, nurseryman, or dealer in plants in this 
country, or elsewhere in the world. If it can be ob- 
tained, it should certainly be carefully propagated. 
It seems to be one of our native flowers that is doomed 
to certain extinction, at least in the regions I have 
found it. Personally, I regret this exceedingly, as 
it is one of my particular favorites among the lilies. 
So rare is it in my region, that, although I have 
known it some 35 years, I doubt if I have seen to 
exceed 100 plants, and I would not guarantee I could 
find five for any party, and it might take a year to 
find that number, if they could be found. It would 
be interesting to know if anyone else has found it 
abundantly. I am growing only about two plants 
now. Unfortunately the name umbellatum has been 
misapplied to other species by those ignorant of the 
true Lilium umbellatum, most commonly to L. ele- 
gans, Thunb., and this misapplied name is quite 
common in catalogues, in no case meaning the true 
L. umbellatum. 
Bulb annual similar to that of L. Philadelphicum, 
but smaller ; stem verv slender, 6 inches to 2 feet 
tall; leaves very narrow, linear, obtuse, or upper 
acute, ascending or sometimes oppressed, all alter- 
nate, or uppermost verticillate, 1-3 inches long, 1-12 
to 1-5 of an inch wide, margins finely roughened, 
flcTO'ers 1-3, erect. 2-3 inches high; perianth seg- 
ments ovate, acute, abruptly narrowed below into a 
long, slender claw but little shorter than the blade, 
red, orange or yellow, usually a handsome red, 
spotted with dark purple on the orange base, only 
not on lower half of segment as in L. Philadelphi- 
ctim. Capsule oblong 3-4 inches long, 2-3 of an inch 
thick ; seeds very small, narrowly winged. 
Habitat — Lisually on hills or mountains. Dry 
soil, usually sandy, Ohio, Michigan, to Minnesota, 
and the Northwest Territory, south tO' Missouri, Ar- 
kansas, and Colorado. In the Black Hills ascends to 
4,000 feet. In southeastern portion of lower Mich- 
igan I have usually found it on the highest portions 
of the great Saginaw-Huron moraine that crosses 
this portion of the state, 1,000 to 1,200 feet above 
sea level, usually in the dryest, sandy highlands, with 
theotherrare and beautiful gem, Gentiana puberula, 
the handsomest of our native Gentians. At the same 
time have been puzzled, in years gone by, in find- 
ing plants that I then supposed identical with it, in 
some of our highland sphaguous swamps, with 
Cypiripediums and other orchids. 
Iwas then toobusy to compare these swamp-grow- 
ing lilies with the hig'hland forms. Since then, pas- 
turing, the axe and the spade have destroyed both 
the lilies and the orchids, and I have now no means 
of proving that the swamp-growing lilies were iden- 
tical with the highland, though it is my opinion that 
they were the same. 
It is well known that many plants, such as the 
Spicy Wintergreen (Gautheria procumbens), Pyrola 
secunda, the Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens), 
white pine, etc., flourish both upon high, dry, sandy 
highlands and in sphaguous swamps, and this may 
be the case with Lilium umbellatum. 
This beautiful little lily has flowered nicely for me 
both in the house in mid-winter and in my flower 
garden, my only complaint being that I could get 
but one or two plants at a time to have tO‘ flow.er. 
I know not how the Japanese Lilium elegans came 
to be comfounded with Lilium umbellatum, and to 
take its name, for, although the plants are about the 
same height, and would be good companion plants, 
the Lilium umbellatum is in every way much more 
slender and delicate, with much smaller flowers, and 
besides L. elegans has much larger and coarser un- 
spotted flowers. 
Liliuni Catesbaei, Walt. Southern Red Lily. 
Bulb verv peculiar, annual (?) composed of nar- 
row leaf-bearng scales, their leaves very narrowly 
linear, 2 to 4 inches long, forming a tuft at base of 
stem, often falling off before the plant flowers. Stem 
