Turk’s-cap Lily (Lilium superbum) is a most beau¬ 
tiful plant, prolific in bloom almost beyond belief, some¬ 
times containing from thirty to forty brilliant orange 
flowers. The bright sepals are always reflexed, some¬ 
times so much so that they remind one of a coiled 
spring. One has blit to touch the large pendant anthers 
to get a practical demonstration of how the pollen is 
attached to the body of a bee and carried to another 
flower, there to be deposited on the sticky stigma of the 
mature style. Naturally a species so prolific of flower 
and so capable of being cross-fertilized by foreign agency 
is in little danger of having its numbers lessened. 
The flowers, nodding at the top of a stem ranging 
from 2 to 7 feet in height, have a six-parted perianth, 
orange-red, thickly spotted with purplish brown. The 
lanceolate leaves are crowded along the upper stem and 
whorled about its lower portion. Blooms abundantly 
in rich soil, during July and August, from N. B. to 
Minn, and southwards. 
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