. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. Lilium philadelphicum. aa. Flowers in shades of yellow or orange. L. philadelphicum, Linn. Fig. 488. Flowers 1-3, erect, 2-3 in. long, orange-red and spotted, the divisions separate: leaves whorled. Dry soil. L. canadense, Linn. Wild orange-red lily. Wood lily. Two to 5 ft., with leaves in whorls and bulbs producing rhizomes or runners: fls. several or many, erect or horizontal on long stalks, the divisions spreading above the middle, orange or red and spotted. Meadows and swales. L. superbu
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. Lilium philadelphicum. aa. Flowers in shades of yellow or orange. L. philadelphicum, Linn. Fig. 488. Flowers 1-3, erect, 2-3 in. long, orange-red and spotted, the divisions separate: leaves whorled. Dry soil. L. canadense, Linn. Wild orange-red lily. Wood lily. Two to 5 ft., with leaves in whorls and bulbs producing rhizomes or runners: fls. several or many, erect or horizontal on long stalks, the divisions spreading above the middle, orange or red and spotted. Meadows and swales. L. superbum, Linn. Turk's-cap lily. Fig. 489. Very tall, bearing several or many nodding red-orange spotted flowers in a panicle, the segments all pointing backward. Meadows and low grounds. L. tigrinum, Ker. Tiger lily. Fig. 31. Four to 5 ft., bearing a loose cottony covering on the stems: leaves sessile, scattered, lanceolate: flowers many, nodding in a panicle, orange-red and black-spotted, the divisions about 4 in. long and rolled back. China and Japan; old gardens. 2. TULIPA. Tulip. Low bulbous plants with a few leaves near the ground on the 1-flowered stem: flower large, erect, the 6 divisions erect or flaring: capsule triangular. T. Gesneriana. Linn. Common tulip. Leaves 3-6, broad: peduncle glabrous: divisions of the flower broad at the end, with a very short point in the center: late-blooming tulips, orig- inally from Asia Minor. T. suaveolens, Roth. Due Van Thol tulip. Early and dwarf, with fewer leaves, downy peduncle, and acuminate segments. Caspian Sea; common in cultivation. 3. ERYTHRONIUM. Dog's-tooth Violet. Low herbs with deep-seated conical bulbs, and scape with 2 leaves near the ground: flower nodding, the 6 divi- 490. Erythronium sions wide-spreading or recurved, the style long and club- americanum. shaped. Blooming in earliest Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorati
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