1874.] 
GARDEN LILIES.—CHAPTER VI. 
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LILIUM AVENACEUM. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
HIS remarkably distinct Lily was shown at a recent meeting of the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society, by G. F. Wilson, Esq., of Weybridge, wbo kindly 
^ supplied the specimens from which our drawing was made. In his recent 
notes on Garden Lilies, Mr. Baker regarded this plant as synonymous with 
L. maculatuiu, and the same opinion was expressed at the meeting at which the 
plant was shown, by Dr. Hooker; hence our plate has been lettered Lilium macu- 
latum. M. Leichtlin, however, who is an authority on all that concerns the genus to 
which this plant belongs, considers the name of L. maculatum as being synonym¬ 
ous with L. medeoloidcs, a figure of Thunberg’s published in the Memoirs of the 
Academy of St. Petersburg being the authority for this opinion; this figure is 
looked on by Mr. Baker as in some degree supporting M. Leichtlin’s opinion, 
without, however, fully proving it. Hence he has, in his notes on Liliums, 
published in the Linnean Society’s Journal., adopted for the present plant the 
name we have placed at the head of this article. Thunberg’s description of a 
bell-shaped perianth certainly by no means agrees with the present species. 
The plant from which our figure was taken was about 2 ft. high, with distant 
whorls of lanceolate leaves an inch wide on the lower part of the stem, near the 
top of which the leaves became alternate, a rather loose corymbose umbel of 5-6 
flowers crowning the whole. The flowers, as will be seen from the figure, are 
very distinct in form, having scarcely any tube, so that the perianth segments 
spread out immediately above the base ; they are elliptic-lanceolate, nearly an 
inch and a half long, so that the blossoms are fully 3 in. across ; and they are of 
a deep tawny-orange colour, with a thickish cluster of black spots towards the 
base. The flowers are somewhat nodding, but the style makes an angle with the 
top of the ovary, so as to assume an upward direction. The ovary itself is very 
deeply six-winged. This Lily is perfectly hardy, being a native of Kamtschatka, 
Mandchuria,,the Kurile Islands, and Japan. It was exhibited in flower about 
the middle of June.—T. Moore. 
GARDEN LILIES.— Chapter VI. 
’HERE still remain some species of the Eulirion group which we have not 
yet considered, and to some of which we now invite attention. 
11. Lilium japonioum {Bot. Mag.., t. 1591).—This species, like L. 
longijlorum., is somewhat tender in this country, needing slight pro¬ 
tection against frost, and shelter from extreme wet. In this group it is known by 
its scattered leaves, and its gradually narrowed funnel-shaped flowers, the leaves, 
morever, being fewer, and the perianth segments broader than in the allied L. 
nepalense. It grows from 1 ft. to 2 ft. high, and has stiff erect stems of a shining 
green colour, spotted with purple. The leaves are scattered, from 12 to 20 in 
number, dark green, lanceolate acute, with several (5 to 7) distinct nerves, the 
3rd series. —VII. s 
