Tas. 6146. 
LILIUM canapEnst, VAR. PARVUM. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. LitraceE&,—Tribe TuLirez, 
Genus Lizium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1871). 
Litium canadense, var. parvum; caule gracili stricto glabro 1-13 pedali, 
‘ + foliis sparsis’ et verticillatis 14-2 pollicaribus oblongo- v. obovato-lan- 
ceolatis obtusis v. subacutis 1-—3-nerviis subundulatis , marginibus 
scaberulis glabris, floribus parvis laxe subcorymbosis nutantibus longe 
gracile pedicellatis, pedicellis erectis ebracteatis, perianthio tubuloso- 
campanulato flavo-aurantiaco, foliolis supra medium patenti-recurvis 
oblanceolatis subacutis medium versus purpureo-maculatis, exterioribus 
paulo angustioribus, staminibus perianthio brevioribus, antheris majus- 
culis flavis, stigmate capitato integro. 
s 3 +48 
L. canadense var. parvum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 241. 
L. parvum, Kellog. in Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc., vol. ii. p. 179, t. 12; 
hegel Gartenji., vol. xxi. p. 163, t. 725; Duchart. Obs. 98. 
I follow Mr. Baker’s comprehensive account of the genus 
Lilium, published in the “ Journal of the Linnzan Society,” in 
referring this pretty Western American plant toa form of the 
Eastern American Z. canadense, though before being con- 
vinced of their identity, I should like to have more knowledge 
of the fruit of the two plants than I have the materials to ob- 
tain. The fruit of LZ. canadense is linear-oblong, nearly an inch 
long in its largest state; that of a small specimen of L. parvum 
from Scott's Mountains, near the 42nd parallel, collected by 
Lyall, is subspherical in outline, truncate at the top, and 
about half an inch in diameter. Lastly, Regel in the Garten- 
flora describes the margins of the outer perianth segments 
of Z. parvum as densely puberulous, which is not the case in 
the specimens before me. : 
The variety parvum inhabits a wide range of the mountains 
of Western America from British Columbia southwards, and 
appears to vary extraordinarily in stature and in the size of 
all its parts. The form here represented, was sent for 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1875. 
