The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Sub-Genus VI

Notholirion.

Stigma trifld (in all the representatives of the other sub-genera, the stigma is only faintly three-lobed). . . . . L. Hookeri Stigma trifld (in all the representatives of the other sub-genera, the stigma is only faintly three-lobed). . . . . L. roseum.

L. alternans (alternating). A garden synonym of L. elegans brevifolium. L. aurantiacum (orange-red). A synonym of L. elegans. L. aurantiacum (orange-red), of gardens. A synonym of L. elegans bicolor. L. auratum (golden).* Golden-rayed Lily of Japan. fl. ivory-white, with a distinct central band of bright yellow and numerous deep purple spots, the lower part copiously papillose, from 10in. to 12in. across when expanded; raceme deltoid, often twenty-flowered; peduncles rigidly erecto-patent.

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