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characterises the moorish growth is at this time of year partly relieved 

 by brilliant scarlet festoons of Pentstemon cordifolius, trailino- over 

 adjoining bushes, or the less showy blossoms of Pentstemon ternatus. 

 What, however, soon attracted more exclusive attention was a conspicuous- 

 yellow Lily, growing abundantly iu the boggy ground adjoining the house, 

 and sharing with the Potato patch the care and attention of the undisputed 

 proprietors of the foil. Though not as showy as some other members of 

 the Lily family in this region, there is a grace displayed in its large 

 drooping flowers, surmounting a slender stem, beset with narrow scattered 

 leaves, which occasionally are crowded at base into a distinct whorl ; the- 

 plant varies in height from 3 to 5 feet, the number of flowers regularly 

 unfolding from it is also variable, ranging- from three to nine. The 

 specimens then collected, together with later material, obligino-ly furnished 

 by Mr. Ring, has supplied the necessary means for a complete description, 

 and the whole having been placed at the disposal of Mr. Sereno Watson,. 

 who is now elaborating the endogenous flora of California, he has deter- 

 mined the same as an undescribed species, which he has complimented 

 the discoverer by naming L. Parr;/i, "Watson. At my request Mr. 

 Watson has kindh' furnished the following characteristic description : — 



L. Parryi, Watson, Bot. Calif, ined. — "Bulb somewhat rhizomatous,. 

 . of numerous crowded scales, fleshy and jointed, about an inch lono-, the- 

 upper joint broadly lanceolate ; stem slender, glabrous, 2 to G feet hicrb, 

 2-10 flowered ; leaves usually scattered, occasionally the lower ones in a 

 whorl; linear, oblanceolate, 4 to G inches long, and ^ inch wide or less, 

 mostly acuminate; flowers horizontal, pale yellow, sparingly and minutely 

 dotted with purple ; segments 3^^ inches long, and 5 or G lines wide, with 

 long, narrow claws, slightly spreading from the base ; stamens and style 

 ^ inch shorter, equal ; anthers, oblong, brownish, three lines long ; capsules 

 narrowly oblong, acutish, 2 inches long by h inch in breadth. 



" Of the section Eulirion, to which also belongs the Californian L. 

 Wa slang foniaii urn. It is distinguished from the latter especially by its- 

 small bulbs, with jointed scales, its more scattered and nai-rower leaves, 

 its small yellow flowers with less spreading segments, and its lono-er,. 

 narrower and acuter capsules." — iJr. C. G. Parry, Proc, Davenport 

 Academy of Naf. Science, vol. ii., p. 188, where an excellent plate is 

 given of this new form. 



SUB-GENUS III. 



Aechelteion (Baker), Open-floweeed Lilies. 



Perianth, broadly funnel-shaped, or campanulate ; segments, ovate, 

 or oblong-lance-shaped, and deeply falcate in the expanded flower, 

 dotted on the inner sm-face, and with papillas on the lower part ; 

 groove on the keel very deep ; stamens, diverging widely from the 

 ciu-ved style. 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



Leaves, sessile; 16, Tiarinum, 17, Oxypdalon. 

 Leaves, shortly stalked; 18, Spcciosum, 19, Auratum. 



