. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 5IO L iliac cce—L iliu m. Flowers briglit scarlet or yellow, not spoited. A ^-erj' hardy si^ecies, native of the South of Europe, and long in cultivation. 16. L. PyrenaicuTn, L. flavum. —This species is very near the last and L. Pomponium, differing from the latter in its broader distinctly 3-nerved leaves less revolute at the margin, and from the forme
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 5IO L iliac cce—L iliu m. Flowers briglit scarlet or yellow, not spoited. A ^-erj' hardy si^ecies, native of the South of Europe, and long in cultivation. 16. L. PyrenaicuTn, L. flavum. —This species is very near the last and L. Pomponium, differing from the latter in its broader distinctly 3-nerved leaves less revolute at the margin, and from the former in its bright yellow spotted flowers. A native of the Pyrenees. L. ccdlosum is remarkable for its indurated hood-shaped bracts. The leaves are few and distant, and the flowers bright scarlet with reflexed segments. Japan. 17. L. festaceum, syn. L. excel- 8um, L. Ibabellhiu'in.—This is a distinct plant with a slender stem 5 to 6 feet high, and crowded as- cending linear 3- to 5-nerved leaves ciliate on the margin and nerves beneath, the lower ones 3 to 4 inches long. Flowers 1 to 6 or more, on long pedicels in a thyrsoid raceme, nankeen yellow tinged with red. Perianth-segments 2^ to 3 inches long, 8 to 12 lines broad, united at tlie base, strongly reflexed and slightly papillose within. This is reported to be of hybrid origin be- tween L. cdndiduni and L. Chalce- dOnlcum, but nothing certain is known of its origin. 18. L. Leichtlinii.—>Stem rather slender, rising to a height of 2 or 3 feet, and rather loosely clothed with small linear slightly puberulous 3-nerved leaves. Flowers usually solitary or two togethei', bright yellow spotted vnth purplish red. Perianth- segments lanceolate, 2|^ to 3 inches long, recurved from the base, hairy inside towards the base. This plant came up in a bed of L. auraturii at Messrs. Veitch's, and it is not known whether it tie a wild Japanese sjoecies or of hybrid Fig. 200. Lilium ChalceJonicuJii. (i iiat. size.). Please note
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