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••spread in cultivation. It appears to liave Ijceu one of the first plants introduced to 

 European Gardens from America,, and is figured in Parkinson's Paradisus in 1629. 

 There are 3 varieties of this eastern form, one, the smaller, with an entirely yellow 

 :ground-work (the variety, Flavuiii of Kunth), a very pretty elegant Lilj' ; another, with 

 an entirely red ground-work, and much larger flower, the variety, Cocciiicum of Kunth, 

 and Pendifloruni of liedoute, botii figured in Bot. I\Iag., t. 800 and 858 ; there is a third 

 intermediate form, whicli with the red variety, is figured in Floriaf, 1875, p. 157. For 

 a figure and description of these bulbs, which an; stoloniferous, sec p. 110. The miniature 

 buds of this form are triangular in shai)e, not roumh-d. Of the western analogous fonns, 

 mentioned by Mr. Baker ; we have not grown var. 2, IFal/.rri, suHiciently to be able to 

 /speak confidently about it. 



28 a. Var. 1, Parvinn, we have cultivated for years, and find it very distinct, and 

 one of the most beautiful of the small-flowering Lilies. The bull) is rhizomatous, and 

 figured on p. 110. The plant grows 4 to 6 icet high, and bears in a raceme on long 

 stalks, a great number of pendulous, small, yellow-ilotted flowers, with broad blunt 

 petals, searceh' at all revolute ; foliage in whorls : until fully established, this Lily 

 may attain only the small stature mentioned above by Mr. ]5aker, for it seems to be an 

 especial characteristic of the ilartagon grou}), that the first year after planting, they 

 ■emit poor sit'kly looking growth, with feeble or no flowers, and so greatly disa[)point 

 cultivators ; but afterv.'ards, when fully established, they astonish the eye with their 

 vigorous growth, tall stem, and multitude of richly coloured flowers. The causes seem 

 to be, that early autumnal root-action is a necessity of growth, and this cannot always 

 be afforded to moved or transplanted bulbs. We consider Parvam to be one of the most 

 graceful and beautiful of the western forms, and regret that its rarity prevents it from 

 being more freipiently grown. 

 28 h. Var. 3, Parvifloruia, as we have gi'own it, seems very closeh^ allied to Parvum, 

 but less tall and floriferous ; the fiowers are smaller, more refle.xed and spotted with 

 pnu'ple or dark brown. 



Either the same or a closely allied species, recently described by Dr. Kellogg in the 

 Proc. Calif. Acad., 8e. vi., p. 140, as L. Maritimum may here be introduced. 

 28 c. L. Maritivium, Kellogg. 



"Leaves alternate, or rarely vertieillate, chiefly clustered near the base, narrowly 

 'oblong-lanceolate, sub-obtuse narrowing into a short petiole, three nerved (intermediate 

 or secondary nerves obscure), margins scarcely a little scaberulose, ([uite glabrous 

 throughout, upi)er cauline successively diminishing to minute linear-lanceolate sessile 

 leaves barely I inch long ; peduncles elongated-terminal. Flowers, few, 1 — 3, somewhat 

 nodding, short, or equilaterally obconic-campanulate ; segments, lanceolate, slightly 

 a-evolute, equal ; style, short, straight." 



This ditters essentially, according to Dr. Kellogg, from Canadciisc, its nearest kin, 

 in the stamens being included. It is a small-flowered maritime Lily, found in low 

 ipeaty meadows, exposed to the bleak, foggy climate of the coast of California, near 

 San Francisco. The flowers are deep reddish orange brown, spotted dark purple 

 inside. 



We have grown this Lily for several years as a form of Parvum, but the flower is 

 snore campauulate, and the ti]is of segments more refiexed, while the colour is more 

 richly tinted with crimson, and the spots numerous and darker than in that species. 

 The bulb is said to be like that of Columhia'iuim, and if so, this kind must be placed 

 alongside of that species. 



29. Tj. PariJalinuiii. — Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad., ii., 12, witli a figure; 

 Ducliartre, Obs. 97. — Bulbs, see p. 112. (aunual or biennial), shortly 

 rliizomatoiis ; scales, few, lax, lance-shapod, acute ; stem, 3 or 4 feet 

 Ihigh, terete, green, smooth ; leaves, often arranged near the middle 

 ■of the stem in 3 or -1 whorls of 9 to 12 leaves, the whorls distant from 

 <each other; upper leaves, few, scattered, oblanceolate, of a shining 

 green, 3 or 4 inches long, acute, 9 to 12 lines broad in the middle, 

 smooth, tender; lateral veins, sunk; fiowers, 3 to 6 in number, 

 arranged in a corymb or lax umbel ; pedicels, elongated, nodding 

 at the top; perianth, 2 to 2^^ inches long, of a brilliant red, orange 



