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PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUM. CALIFORNIAN 
PLATYSTEMON. 
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Class and Order. 
PotyanpriA PoLyGynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Papaveracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala6. Stamina nume- 
rosa. Filamenta dilatata, membranacea, obcordata. An- 
there \ineares, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 
plurima (10 et ultra) linearia, stigmate sessili lineari termi- 
Nata. Capsule totidem distincte torulose, articulate, 
transversim multiloculares extus piloso-hispide. Semina 
im quoque loculo solitaria pendula. Benth. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
PLatystemon * Californicum ; ovariis fructibusque pilosis. 
Puatystemon Californicum. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1. 
N.S. p. 405. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1679. 
@enmeen 
A highly interesting annual, for the introduction of which 
to our gardens we are indebted to Mr. Dovetas, who sent 
the seeds to the Horticultural Society from California. Mr. 
ENziEs, however, was the first to discover it in that coun- 
try, when on the voyage round the globe with Capt. Van- 
couver. His specimens are preserved in my Herbarium, 
and doubtless in those of other Botanists on whom he has 
bestowed them with his wonted liberality. In the recent 
specimen which I examined, the germen on being laid open 
owed one cell, with as many projections and —_ as 
there 
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* From trarvs, broad, and ermpw», a stamen, in allusion to the breadth of 
the filaments, 
