round the middle of the corolla is so distinctly marked, 
that in some positions it looks as if the upper greenish firm 
conical end, were a separate organ from the white shrivelled 
base. 
From A. Menziesii itself, it is so much less different, that 
I had at one time thought they must be the same. It ap- 
pears however, upon a more exact comparison, that while 
the whole raceme of A. Menziesii is covered with a fine 
delicate down which extends all over the pedicels, the latter 
in this species are nearly glabrous, and the remainder of the 
raceme coarsely downy. The lower bracts of A. Menziesii 
are spreading and foliaceous, of A. laurifolia scale-like, im- 
bricated, and closely pressed to the branch. The leaves too 
of the former are much smaller and thinner than those of 
the latter. 
