and the ‘practee take the place of stipules. Flowers col- 
lected into dense, terminal heads, which have two such brac- 
tee as I have just described immediately at their base. 
Pedicels short, branched. Calyx campanulate, marked with 
ten striz, with five large and (placed a little below their 
sinus externally,) five small, spreading, lanceolate teeth, 
green, sometimes tipped with brown. Petals much longer 
than the calyx, inserted in the sinus of the large teeth or — 
segments, and opposite the smaller ones, white, rounded, 
with a long, yellowish claw. Stamens ten, inserted a little 
below the mouth of the tube; five larger, opposite the large 
segments of the calyx ; five smaller opposite to the petals. 
Anthers two-celled, rounded, yellow. Filaments inversely 
cuneate, with an elevated, longitudinal line in the front, 
white. Receptacle of the pistils conical, rather fleshy, and 
having a few scattered hairs. Germens roundish- oval, 
green. Style filiform, yellow, incrassated at the base, where 
it is jointed upon the germen a little below the summit. 
‘Stigma obtuse. 
This new genus of plants has lately been established by 
Cuamisso and ScuiecuTenpat in the second volume of the 
“ Linnea,” upon the species found during the late Russian 
Voyage of Discovery, at San Francisco, in California. 
have now the satisfaction of publishing a second species 
of the genus, detected by Mr. Doveras at Cape Mendo- 
cena, and on the low hills of the Umptqua River upon 
the North-west coast of America. From specimens kindly 
communicated by the Horticultural Society of London, 
which flowered in August 1828, from seeds brought home 
by Mr. Dovexas, the accompanying figure was made. 
It is a hardy perennial, allied to the genus Srspaip1, but 
differing in various particulars. It varies much in the shape 
of the pinne of the leaves. 
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Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Portion of the Flower, to show the insertion of 
the Stamens, &c. 3. Pistils. 4. Receptacle of ditto. 5. Single Pistil— 
Magnified. 
