"Mrs. J. S. R. T.," Spartanburg, S. C, writes : " I have an absorbing desire to catch the attention of all to the many attractions of our fair sunny South-land. Floriculture being my specialty, I am best fitted - if fitted for anything - to speak of her thousands of beauteous flowers, leaving to others the more difficult task of lauding her other claims to consideration. Latterly I have made one of my pleasures a commencement of the collecting and study of native plants, and am often overjoyed when I find to me an utterly unknown species or variety. Early in spring I was told that in our near vicinity there was to be found in abundance a wild tiger lily, from which date I have eagerly gone in search of it with happy results of not only finding statement verified, but, what I think of far more importance, I think it a new unnamed variety, for this reason: I sent specimen of flowers without the bulb to Dr. Asa Gray, Harvard University; he wrote me, "That it was L. superbum; that the bulb ought to have a rhizome attached, which I had probably left in the earth," which I am sure I did not. I had expected to find it attached and examined to see if the digger had not left it in the earth.

No sign of any rhizome or of a break on the bulb; which proves to my satisfaction that if the rhizome is an essential to L. superbum that my find is not that variety. In Chapman's "Flora of Southern States" before me, he mentions six varieties, viz. : L. Philadelphicum, Canadense, Carolinum, Catesbaei, Superbum and Grayi, all to be found in South Carolina and adjoining States.

I was astonished and pleased to note a peculiarity in a specimen of above variety before me which I have never seen in other varieties nor remember to have read of. The plant grows from 10 to 20 inches high with leaves with wavy outlines, subacute, arranged in sectional whorls 3 inches long, by 1 inch wide; six in a place, with this peculiarity that three are narrower than the other three, and arranged on stalk like petals of lilies are on pericarp, i. e., three smaller inside leaves than the three outer rows; looks exactly like a green lily. Bulbs size of hickory nuts. Many scales easily dislodged. Flower petals 6¾ inches wide by full 3 inches long, much recurved like Turk's cap, section centre of lily cup pure pearl, while deepening from cream canary to deep glowing orange scarlet, with large purplish spots in heart extending as far only to where the orange scarlet tints begin. Now, Mr. Editor, please tell me my find's name. Is it an old and well-known variety, or a new discovery ?

[The description does not certainly fit any lily with which we are acquainted that is indigenous to that region; at the same time it must be said that the country has been so thoroughly worked over by botanists that the chance of finding things wholly new is very small. It is far more likely that the botanist fails to recognize the old friend in the description, than that the plant is wholly new. Perfect specimens of bulbs, leaves and flowers are necessary to identify a lily. - Ed. G. M].