martagon

/ (ˈmɑːtəɡən) /

a Eurasian lily plant, Lilium martagon, cultivated for its mottled purplish-red flowers with reflexed petals Also called: Turk's-cap lily

Word Origin for martagon

C15: from French, from Turkish martagān a type of turban

Gerarde mentions its use by alchemists, who called it Martagon.

How to Know the Ferns |Frances Theodora Parsons
We were anxious to find the noble Martagon lily, and hunted in many glades and forest borders for it.

More Science From an Easy Chair |Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
Both the Martagon and the Pyrenean Lily have been found, but there is no doubt they are garden escapes.

The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare |Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
Martagon lilies, for instance, are common, though how long they will remain so I cannot say.

Switzerland |Frank Fox

The natives eat extensively the bulbs of the Martagon lily, and weave cloth out of the fibres of the Kamchatka nettle.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 |Various