Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Plate 28. Lilium concolor.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

LILIUM Concolor.

Self-coloured Chinese Lily.

Class and Order.—Hexandria Monogynia.

Syn.	Lilium Concolor.	Par. Lond. tab. 47.
—	Lilium Concolor.	Curt. Bot. Mag. pl. 1165.

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Root bulbous, squamose—stem erect, leafy, two feet high or more—leaves alternate, nerved, sessile, linear lanceolate—peduncles axillary, one flowered—corolla bright scarlet, tube short—petals six, lanceolate, recurved when the flower is fully expanded—stamens six, shorter than the petals—filaments erect, anthers oblong, germen green, style thick, as if composed of three parts, stigma trifid.