Tas. 6650. 
LILIUM PaRRyI. 
Native of Southern California. 
~ Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe Turireg. 
Genus Linium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. ined.) 
Lintum Parry; elata, glaberrima, bulbo estolonifero ? squamis brevibus parvis 
ovoideis obtusis, foliis inferioribus v. omnibus verticillatis anguste elongato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis lete viridibus, racemis multifloris, rachi sulcato, floribus 
horizontalibus gracile pedicellatis inferioribus verticillatis, perianthio infundi- 
bulari-campanulato, segmentis 2-34 pollicaribus lineari-oblanceolatis obtusius- 
culis extus stramineis basin versus virescentibus intus aureis infra medium 
remote purpureo-punctatis, staminibus exsertis perianthium subequantibus, 
filamentis gracilibus, antheris lineari-oblongis, polline flavo-brunneo, stylo 
staminibus zquilongo, capsula lineari-oblonga. 
L. Parryi, Sereno Watson, in Proc. Davenport Acad. vol. ii. pp. 188, 256, t. 5, 6 ; 
Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 165; Hlwes Monog. Lilium, t.12; T. Moore, Florist 
and Pomologist, 1882, p. 3, t. 553. 
Though discovered so long ago as 1876, this Lily is one 
of the most recent introductions as a living plant. Mr. 
Elwes, indeed, in his noble monograph of the genus, had no 
other material for illustrating it than a drawing made in 
the United States from a dried specimen, and which drawing 
was pronounced by the discoverer of the species, Dr. 
Parry, to be “‘a true and characteristic likeness of the 
living plant.” A comparison of Mr. Elwes’ plate with both 
the specimens which first flowered in England, and the 
drawing in the “Florist and Pomologist,” amply justifies 
Dr. Parry’s statement, except as regards the colour of the 
flower, which is far too pale. On the other hand, the 
Specimens which flowered most luxuriantly at Kew in the 
new Rock Garden, show a much more luxuriant develop- 
ment, the leaves being whorled almost throughout the 
Stems, and the flowers much more numerous and also 
whorled often in sixes. The bulbs are quite like those of 
L. pardalinum, except that the new ones in the only specimen 
examined are produced quite close to the old. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1882, 
