. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. Lilium canadense L. Wild Yellow Lily. Canada or Nodding Lily. Fig. 1258. Lilium canadense L. Sp. PI. 303. 1753. Bulbs subglobose, 1-2' in diameter, borne on a stout rootstock, composed of numerous thick white scales. Stem 2°-5° tall, slender or stout; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, verticil- late in 4's-io's or some of them alternate, acu- minate, 2
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. Lilium canadense L. Wild Yellow Lily. Canada or Nodding Lily. Fig. 1258. Lilium canadense L. Sp. PI. 303. 1753. Bulbs subglobose, 1-2' in diameter, borne on a stout rootstock, composed of numerous thick white scales. Stem 2°-5° tall, slender or stout; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, verticil- late in 4's-io's or some of them alternate, acu- minate, 2'-6' long, 3"-is" wide, finely roughened on the margins and on the veins beneath; flowers 1-16, nodding on long peduncles; peduncles sometimes bearing a small leaf-like bract; peri- anth-segments a'-3' long, yellow or red, usually thickly spotted below, recurved or spreading, not clawed; capsule oblong, erect, ii'-2' long. In swamps, meadows and fields, Nova Scotia to Ontario, Minnesota, Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and Nebraska. Ascends to 6000 ft. in North Carolina. Red-flowered races with slightly spreading perianth- segments resemble the following species, and races with strongly recurved segments, L. superbum. Field- or meadow-lily. June-July. 5. Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Asa Gray's Lily. Fig. 1259. Lilium Grayi S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 256. 1879. Rootstock bearing small subglobose bulbs with thick ovate scales. Stem slender, 2°-3° high; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, 2'-4' long, J'-i' wide, verticillate in 3's-8's or the lowest commonly smaller and scattered, all finely roughened on the veins beneath; flowers 1-3, long-peduncled, spread- ing or slightly drooping, 2'-3' long, red or tinged with yellow at the base; perianth-segments oblong- spatulate, not clawed, acute, spotted; capsule fig- shaped, about ii' high. Peaks of Otter, Virginia, and on the higher mountain summits in North Carolina. Please no
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