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genus, while detecting a half-dozen new species and defining the 

 twenty-six remaining ones." 



C. R. Orcutt, editor of the JVesi American Scientist, writes: 



"Dr. Parry discovered during his extensive explorations hundreds 

 of new plants afterward described by Dr. Gray and by Dr. Engel- 

 mann, and his name is firmly fixed in the history of West American 

 botany. While his greatest service has been rendered to botanical 

 science, yet horticulturists will not soon forget that it was Dr. 

 Parry who discovered Picea pungens, the beautiful blue spruce of 

 our gardens; Pinus Pngehnanni, Pinus Torreyana, Piniis Parryana, 

 Pinus aristata, and a host of others of beauty and value. Through 

 his zeal and enterprise many plants now familiar to American and 

 European gardens were first cultivated. Zizyphus Parryi, Phacelia 

 Parryi, Frasera Parryi, Liliutn Parryi, Saxafraga Parryi, Dalea 

 Parryi, Primula Parryi, and many other plants of great beauty or 

 utility bear his name in commemoration of his labors and worthily 

 do him honor. 



"No name is more intimately connected with the flora of West 

 America than is the name of Charles Christopher Parry. For 

 nearly fifty years his indefatigable labors and explorations in the 

 West have enriched our botanical lore. His name is associated 

 with many pleasant memories in the mind of every one who was so 

 fortunate as to know him personally. Since 1882 he has published 

 very important papers on the species of Cliorizanthe on the Pacific 

 Slope; on the genus Arctostaphylos (the manzanita); on Pacific 

 Coast Alders; and, later, on the genus Ceanothus, which contains 

 the numerous mountain and coast shrubs known as 'wild lilacs.' 

 These papers were the result of special studies in the field of these 

 difficult groups of plants and contained descriptions of many new 

 species." 



In the vicinity of San Diego, in 1882, as Mr. Orcutt further re- 

 lates, "he rediscovered the little fern Ophiglossum. nudicaule, which 

 he had first found in 1850, and which ever since had been unseen. 

 In the neighborhood of Todos Santos, or All Saints Bay, were dis- 

 covered the new Ribes viburnifolium. Parry's Mexican rose {Rosa 

 minutifolia, Engelm.'), and a dwarf horse-chestnut {Aescuhcs Parryi) 

 among other new plants;" also, later, in the same region, "the new 

 spice bush {Ptelea aptera. Parry)." The Parry lily {Lilium Parryi, 

 Watson) was discovered in 1876 on the ranche of the Ring broth- 

 ers in Southern California, near San Gorgonio Pass. 



Dr. Parry's work on earth is done. His was a busy, useful life; 

 unselfish, but crowned with the proudest success. His name "has 

 been stamped upon the mountain peak and traced in lines of beauty 

 in many a mountain flower." At last the gathering hand has been 



