: Tas. 6058, 
LILIUM (HYBRIDUM) Kramert. 
Raised from Japanese Parents. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacea.—Tribe TuLiree. 
Genus Litium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1871). 
Litium (hybridum) Krameri; caule gracili erecto simplici 4-pedali tereti 
‘  viridi fusco leviter striato, foliis sparsis horizontalibus breviter petio- 
latis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis glabris supra saturate viridibus 
subtus pallidis, flore solitario terminali inclinato v. horizontali 8-10 poll. — 
diametro, albo pallide roseo v. carneo, perianthio infundibuliformi- 
campanulato, segmentis oblanceolatis subacutis epapillosis supra me- 
dium revolutis, staminibus declinatis, antheris lineari-oblongis polline 
ferrugineo, stigmate viridi. 
As a rule hybrid plants do not find a place in the Botanical 
Magazine, from nowant of admiration for these always interest- 
ing, and often beautiful, productions of the gardener's skill, 
but from the simple fact that nature supplies superabundant 
materials for this work, and that it is the more legitimate func- 
tion of a Botanical work to illustrate the possible or probable 
parents of future hybrids, and thus afford to others the means 
of elucidating the history of hybrids when these are formed. 
In thé present case it was under the erroneous impression that 
L. Krameri was a species that it was prepared for publication 
in the Magazine, and not with the view of illustrating itself or 
its origin, which are, however, both sufficiently deserving of a 
place in the pages of a Botanical work. 
Lilium Krameri has been forwarded for figuring both by 
G. Wilson, Esq., F.L.8., and by Messrs. Barr and Sugden, to 
the former of which gentlemen a first-class certificate was 
awarded for it by the Royal Horticultural Society. Accord- 
ing to Mr. Baker it is a hybrid between JL. speceosum and 
L. japonicum, an opinion which Mr. Wilson thinks confirmed 
OCTOBER Ist, 1873. 
