If it could again be procured, it would probably be pre- 
served, for we are now more acquainted with its habits than 
we were at first; and it is evidently a pretty . plant, if we 
are to judge from the dried specimens in the herbarium of 
the Horticultural Society. Both these and its seeds were 
sent home by Mr. Douglas without a particle of information 
as to the treatment it would require. 
Mr. Bentham, to whom we are indebted for the first 
account of it, speaks of it as being as “ interesting to the 
Hortieulturist from its beauty as it is to the Botanist, from 
forming the connecting link between the Ranunculacee and 
Papaveracege, The trisepalous calyx, and numerous dis- 
tinct ovaria would have placed it in the former order, were 
it not for the strueture of the anthers, the very deciduous 
sepals, and the general habit, which do not admit of its 
being removed from Papaveracee, pee considering its 
close affinity with Eschscholtzia through Platystigma and 
Dendromecon. 
“It is a low, branching, erect, and pale green annual, 
seldom attaining beyond a foot in height. The whole 
plant is smooth, with the exception of long spreading hairs - 
on the peduncles, the margins, and here and there the sur- 
face of the leaves, and on the calyx and ovaria. The leaves . 
are alternate, the upper ones often several, so near together . 
as to have the appearance of an imperfect whorl; they 
are oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, perfectly entire, embrace the 
stem at, the base, and are marked with from three to five 
parallel ribs. The peduncles are solitary, axillary, about 
six inches long, ul bear at the extremity a single erecí 
flower, rather larger than that of the common Helianthe- 
mum. The sepals are very hairy, round, ovate and ob- 
tuse; the petals yellow, with occasionally a reddish tinge 
outside. The flower is sweet-scented, and of a pale straw 
colour.” : | 
Considered in a botanical point of view, it serves to 
show the very close relationship that exists between the 
Crowfoot and Poppy tribes, to the former of which its dis- 
tinct carpella, and to the latter its deciduous calyx and oily 
albumen so nearly egually refer it, that it might be a ques- 
tion in which of the two it ought with the greater propriety 
