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THE GENUS LILIUM. 
Andinum. Bright scarlet, erect, campanulate flowers; the 
plant attains about three feet in height, and blooms in July and 
August. A native of North America. 
Atrosanguineum. Dark red, partially reflexed flowers, two 
feet may be called its average height; the blooms are produced in 
June and July. From Japan. Syn .fulgens. 
Bulbiferum . Erect, campanulate, orange-coloured flowers, 
produced in June and July; the plant grows to three feet. A 
native of Italy. The garden varieties, florepleno , minus , and 
umbellatum, differ only in the manner their several names imply. 
Canadense. The flowers are light orange, reflexed, and very 
handsome ; the plant grows to about three feet and a half, and 
blooms in July and August. A native of North America. The 
variety rubrum , has deep orange-coloured flowers, but does not 
differ in any other respect. 
Chalcedonicum. The scarlet Martagon, is a very showy species, 
with brilliant red reflexed flowers, thickly studded with raised 
dots; it flowers in July and August, and attains a height of four 
feet. A native of the Levant. 
Concolor. Deep red, erect, campanulate flowers, very hairy 
inside; the plant grows to two feet, and flowers in July. A 
native of China 
JEximium . White, pendant, campanulate flowers, very large, 
produced in July on a plant not more than a foot and a half high. 
A native of Japan. Syn. speciosissimum ; but very little if any 
difference exists between this species and the two known as 
japonicum and longijiorum , which I believe to be positively 
identical. 
Martagon. The Turk’s Cap. Flowers reflexed, purple, pro¬ 
duced in July and August, on a plant growing three feet high. 
There are a number of varieties of this species, differing more or 
less in colour, and much esteemed by the Dutch florists. 
Monadelphum. Bather small, yellow, reflexed flowers, borne 
on a plant about two feet in height, through June and July. A 
native of Caucasus. 
Philadelphicum. Light orange, erect, campanulate flowers, on a 
five feet stem, in July and August. A native of North America. 
Pumilum. An interesting little species, with scarlet reflexed 
flowers on a stem not exceeding a foot. From Duraia. 
