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* PLATYSTIG'MA lineare. 
Linear-leaved Platystigma. 
POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PAPAVERACEZ. 
PLATYSTIGMA. Sepala 3-4, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 6-8. 
Stamina numerosa. Filamenta filiformia. Anthere lineares, biloculares, late- 
raliter dehiscentes. Stigmata 3, ovata, acuta, erecto-divergentia. Capsula 
oblonga, basi attenuata, 1-locularis, 3-angularis, 3-sulcata, 3-valvis, ab apice ad 
basin dehiscens : valvulis conduplicatis margine-in placentis filiformbus productis. 
Semina numerosa, minuta, ovoidea, nigra, levissima, nitida. Bentham in 
Hort. Trans. n. s. vol. 1. quibusdam mutatis. 
P. lineare.. Bentham l. c. Hooker Ic. vol. 1. t. 
Annua. Caules densi, subsimplices, teretes, patentim pilosi, fragiles, 
3-4 poll. alti. Folia linearia, opposita, aut ternatim verticillata, tenera, 
patentim pilosa. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares et terminales, gracillimi, 
caulibus dupiò longiores, patentim pilosi. ' Calyx deciduus Papaveris more, 
viridis, 3-4-sepalus, pilosus. Petala serie duplici verticillata, 6-8, con- 
cava, ovata, subequalia ; exteriora lutea, interiora alba. Filamenta linearia, 
utrinque infra apicem dentata. 
One of the prettiest of all little annuals, with its graceful 
cups of white and yellow, resembling those of a Ranunculus, 
but far more gay. 
It is a native of California, where it was originally found 
by Douglas, who however sent home no seed. More recently 
it has been received at St. Petersburgh from the Russian 
settlements in California, and thence it has found its way to 
England. I fear, however, our damp summers will prevent 
its ripening seed with amy certainty. 
Fig. 1. is a magnified stamen; 2. an ovary, with the 
three stigmas; and 3. a transverse section of the ovary, 
mona the position /of the placentas, with respect to the 
ang es, ^. 
* From zAarvc broad, and stigma. 
