140 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 
Dr. Kellogg described a new plant, as follows: 
Lilium Maritimum. 
BY DR. A. KELLOGG. 
Lilium maritimum. Kellogg. 
Leaves alternate or rarely verticillate, chiefly clustered near the base, nar- 
rowly oblong-oblanceolate, subobtuse, narrowing into a short petiole, 3-nerved 
(intermediate or secondary nerves obscure), margins scarcely a little seabru- 
lose, quite glabrous throughout, upper cauline successively diminishing to 
minute linear-lanceolate sessile leaves, barely 144 of an inch. Peduncles 
elongated, terminal. Flowers few (1-3), somewhat nodding, short, or equi- 
laterally obconic-campanulate; segments lanceolate, slightly revolute above 
the middle; genitals included, about equal; style short, straight. 
Deep reddish orange-brown, inside dark purple spotted. 
A small maritime lily found in the black, peaty, low meadows exposed to 
the bleak, foggy climate of the coast of California, in the vicinity of San 
Francisco. A lily not liable to be mistaken for LZ. parvum, K., or any de- 
pauperate form of L. pardalinum, K., as both of these have rhizomatic scaly 
bulbs, creeping, as it were, or spreading laterally into zigzag mats or masses, 
if the soil be rich or moisture favorable. Like the Oregon lily, this has 
isolated bulbs—both too hastily considered as varieties of DL. canadense, like 
many others. This elastic species, for a lily hobby, is almost equal to any 
emergency; in the realm of speculative philosophy, this may have been truly 
the progenitor. From L. canadense, its nearest kin, it differs essentially in 
the genitals being included; a point not only of specific but generic import- 
ance. Flowers small, scarcely more than an inch in expansion, and of simi- 
lar depth—giving it a truly equilateral obconic cavity, much more shortened 
and shallow-shaped. Style even shorter than the stamens. The perianth 
never pendent when in flower, but half erect, and looking outwards. Stem 
in general the smallest known—12 to 18 inches high, ete. I do not insist 
upon the absolute or relative form of the leaf being always narrower, although 
for the most part this is so; and very seldom do we see more than a single 
whorl, although cultivated remote from the coast, in light sandy soils; the 
leaves then may become broader, somewhat oblanceolate, acute, and sessile, 
but never pubescent along the veins. Salt margins of our sea-coast do cer- 
tainly modify the forms of plants; yet, with all due allowance, the entire 
physiognomy is not so changed as we witness here. — 
In general; the bulb is pure white, strictly conic, scales closely pressed, 
ito 1% inches in diameter; leaves 1 to 5 inches long, 44 to 4% inch wide, 
rarely verticillate. Flowers May to August. Capsules long, narrow, not 
winged. The late lamented H. G. Bloomer, Botanical Curator, has long ago 
recorded his protest against this being considered a variety of L. canadense. 
Dr. Gibbons made some verbal remarks on clouds. 
