Botany and Zoology. 151 
II Botany AND ZooLoey. 
1. The Hybridization of Lilies ; by Francis Parkman.—In 
No. 15 of the second volume of the Bulletin of the Bussey Insti- 
tution, under the above title, Mr. Parkman gives a summary of his 
experiments, during ten or twelve years, in crossing Lilies. One 
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name of Lilium Parkmanni. The interesting physiological point 
which Mr. Parkman here records is, that this striking novelty 
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rent, L. speciosum. That 
these plants were truly hybrids, notwithstanding, is well made 
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parent. 
It would naturally be thought that this slight but evident im- 
pression of the character of the male parent might be deepened 
y iteration. That was tried next year, when the flowers of 
several of these plants were fertilized with the pollen of L. awratum 
precisely as their female parent had been fertilized, The result 
was an extremely scanty crop of seed, “ but there was envagh to 
_ ren experiment proceeded one generation 
farther. “In the following year I set some of them apart from 
