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GARDEN LILIES.— Chapter IX. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION OF LILIUM HUMBOLDTII AND ITS ALLIES. 
I UR plate represents three forms or species of Lilies, which have, within the 
last few years, found their way from California into our gardens, and 
which promise to become good and useful introductions as ornamental 
border-flowers. The specimens figured were exhibited at South Kensington 
last summer, by G. F. Wilson, Esq., from his Lily-garden at Weybridge. Two of 
them, L. Humboldtii (fig. 1) and L. pardalinum (fig. -2), from the same collection, 
had been awarded First-class Certificates in 1872 by the Royal Horticultural 
Society. L. californicum (fig. 3) is, as will be seen, deeper-coloured than the 
other two. 
17. Lilium Humboldtii ( Qartenflora , t. 724 ; Flore des Serves , tt. 1973-4). 
A very fine and handsome Lily, quite distinct in character from L. ccinadense , 
as a reference to our plate published with Chapter VIII. (p. 157) will at once show. 
The stems grow from 5 ft. to 6 ft. high, and are of a purple colour, with a slightly 
glaucous bloom. The leaves are all whorled, each whorl consisting of from nine 
to fifteen sessile linear-lanceolate acute leaflets, which are wavy or smooth on the 
margins ; the lower ones 3 in. to 4 in. long, by an inch broad. The flowers vary 
from six to fourteen on a stem (thirty to forty, arranged as a pyramid, according 
to Roezl), and are axillary in the upper bracts, which are short and ovate, the 
inflorescence forming a kind of raceme. The perianth segments are from 3 in. 
to 4 in. long, revolute almost to the base, where they are slightly lamellate- 
papillose ; they are of a rich orange-yellow in the upper half, while the lower half 
is thickly dotted with unequal, irregularly-disposed spots of a deep blood-red 
colour ; these spots have sometimes a tendency to become ocellate, as in the sub¬ 
joined variety. The stamens are shorter than the perianth, but much protruded, 
in consequence of the segments being reflexed, the filaments 2 in.* long or more, 
with anthers of a reddish-brown colour, and about half an inch long ; the style 
is about the same length as the stamens. The flowers are produced about the 
end of June or the beginning of July. 
This beautiful Lily was discovered by Mr. Roezl, in a wild valley amongst 
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in California, and to him we are indebted for its 
introduction into European gardens. It has been described by Dr. Kellogg, under 
the name of L. Bloomerianum. 
L. Humboldtii ooellatum. —This very beautiful variety, which is of Cali¬ 
fornian origin, has been named ooellatum, from its eye-like spots. It is the L. 
Bloomerianum ooellatum of gardens, and was introduced and distributed by Mr. 
Bull, of Chelsea. We saw it very nicely flowered, last July, in Mr. Wilson’s 
collection, and from this plant the accompanying description is taken. It is of a more 
dense and stocky habit than the typical L. Humboldtii. The stem in the specimen 
At p. 157, the filaments of L. canadense aro by an oversight erroneously described as 4 in. to G in. long 
instead of 1| in. 
3rd SERIES.—VIII. u 
