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BOTANICAL. INDEX. 
[We would request any one having new or strange Plants, to send us a notice for publication in these col umns.] 
LILITJM PARR YI. Watson. 
/^^fejURING the Summer of 1876, Dr. C. C. Parry had the good fortune to find in 
Southern California one of the finest of all the California Lilies yet discov- 
SKflk ered, and as the bulbs are now being introduced into cultivation, we have 
a had a picture of the bulb made, which we present to our readers this month. 
It is unlike any other bulb in form, and can not be mistaken when once seen. 
' ' v It has a stronger resemblance to L. Superbum, Fig. 189, than any other, but 
still does not approach it. The flower is trumpet shaped, in the way of L. Longi- 
fiorum. The scientific description as already published may be of interest: 
“Bulb somewhat rhizomatous, of numerous crowded scales, fleshy and joinled, 
about an inch long, the upper joint broadly lanceolate; stem slender, glabrous, two 
to five feet high, 2-10 flowered; leaves usually scattered, occasionally the lower ones 
in a whorl, linear, oblanceolate, four to six inches long, and half an inch wide or 
Fig. 188. Rhisoma of Lilium Parryi. Fig. 189. Rhizonui of L. Superbum. 
less, mostly acuminate; flowers horizontal, pale yellow, sparingly and minutely 
dotted with purple; segments three and one-half inches long, and five or six line> 
wide, with long, narrow claws, slightly spreading from the base; stamens and style 
a half inch shorter, equal; anthers oblong, brownish, three lines long; capsules 
narrowly oblong, acutish, two inches long by half an inch in breadth. 
“Of the section Enlirion , to which also belongs the Californian L. Wushingtoni- 
anum. It is distinguished from the latter especially by its small bulbs, with jointed 
scales, its more scattered and narrower leaves, its smaller yellow flowers with less 
spreading segments, and its longer, narrower and acuter capsules.” 
NEW E CHE VERIA S. 
It will interest a large number of the readers of the Index to know of the 
! new hybrid Echeverias raised and now ottered for sale by Ferdinand von der 
Heiden, of Hilden, Germany. We give below an abridged translation of his 
descriptions. They are : 
ECHEVERIA CINERACEA. V. D. H. 
Alow growing plant, but spreading out broadly; leaves green, with silvery- 
white spots around the edges, underneath spotted with red. 
ECHEVERIA CYANEA. V. D. H. 
A low growing variety, with leaves in a compact mass like the petals of a full 
blown Rose, of a blue-green color with a light rose shade. 
ECHEVERIA DEALBATA. V. D. H. 
A thrifty growing variety; leaves white with a rose shade; flowers small, yellow 
and red, and borne on stems ten to fifteen centimeters high. 
