Some of my pics are in the
Starting Lilies from Seed thread. Good ones are posts:113,372,377. Good posts from Lorn:375,376,407.
Jeane, your seed does look like mostly chaff. But, in your pic, the arrow here shows one that seems good. The embryos show as white lines somewhere within the darker middle part. There may be others, but the photo is to fuzzy to tell. The ones in the box are surely chaff (not viable).
I think you will be able to tell which is which if your read on......
Sometimes in good light, you can see the embryos, as here:
1-Lilium martagon and L. martagon var. album seed, and 2-Lilium monadelphum seed
Sometimes you can't see the embryos, unless you use a backlight to show through the seed (in which case, the embryo shows as a dark line).
Lilium papilliferum seed: without backlighting, and with backlighting.
