In growth it resembles _L. Superbum_, but the inflorescence is quite distinct. The flowers are large; the segments deep red for their outer half and bright orange at their base, thickly spotted with black. In the centre of the red portion of the segment is a large black spot bordered with yellow, which gives the whole flower a very attractive appearance. The petioles, or stalks which support the blossoms, are very gracefully curved, a characteristic very well portrayed in the accompanying drawing. Each stem will produce from three to eight blossoms, each about two and a half inches across. This is another very variable lily, and a large number of its varieties have received special names. The variety _Augustifolium_, figured in our illustration, is the one commonly grown. _L. Pardalinum Warei_ has flowers of an unspotted apricot colour. It is extremely rare and expensive. _L. Bourgoei_ and _L. Pallidifolium_ are varieties which our knowledge of lilies is insufficient to differentiate. Perhaps a variety of _L. Pardalinum_, but more probably a distinct species, _Lilium Californicum_ is distinguished from the last lily by the fewness, but large size, of its blossoms, the greater brilliance of its colour, the abrupt transition from the red to the orange portions of the perianth, and the browner colour of its spots. _L. Pardalinum_ and _L. Californicum_ require the same treatment as the other swamp lilies except that they must have more leaf mould, more of the mud from the ditch, if you can get it, and less peat and less water. The last two of the swamp lilies of North America stand apart from those which we have just considered, as they differ very greatly in almost every particular. _Lilium Humboldti_, by far the finest of the swamp lilies, is a plant which every lover of gorgeous flowers should grow if he can. We said “if he can,” for we cannot grow it! The plants do very well till the blossoming season approaches, and then they die suddenly. Yet the bulbs are not diseased, and the roots are chiefly normal. The bulb of this species is long, oblique, and perennial. It does not bear a rhizome, but it much resembles that of _L. Washingtonianum_. In its growth and in its leaves this species resembles _L. Washingtonianum_, but its blossoms would surprise anybody who had never seen them. They are so different from any other flower in nature except the little lily which is described below. Ten, twenty, forty, even fifty blossoms may be borne by one stalk. These flowers are about four inches long, completely recurved, but the tips of the segments stand away from their bases on a pedicel of four or five inches length. In colour they are a flaming orange-yellow, quite a different kind of yellow from that of _Monodelphum_, spotted and splashed with a rich purple brown. We wish we could grow this lily, but unfortunately this is one of our failures. It cannot be helped, we must try again; perhaps we shall discover how to grow it in time.