mixed with silky hairs. ‘The st¢pules are particularly large, 
lanceolate, acuminate, hairy, especially at the margin and 
beneath, where they are whitish. Flowers in the wild state 
almost corymbose, in the cultivated plant paniculated, but 
still nearly level-topped, peduncles forked, with generally 
a single flower between the forks. Cal. of five broadly- 
lanceolate, and five alternate, smaller, almost subulate 
segments, all of them clothed with rather long and silky 
— Petals broadly obcordate, wavy, longer than the 
calyx. 
This is a handsome, and, in our gardens, a strong-grow- 
ing species of the Genus, but much better deserving the 
name of gracilis, as seen on the banks of the Columbia and 
the plains of the Multnomah rivers, where it was discover- 
ed by Mr. Dovetas, than as it appears after cultivation. I 
cannot refer it to any described species, nor does it appear to 
have been gathered by any other Naturalist, except by Dr. 
Scouter, who accompanied Mr. Dove.as as far as Fort 
Vancouver ; unless it be the same as a Rocky Mountain 
species, collected by Mr. Drummonp, as I suspect it will 
prove to be. 
The seeds were introduced to the Horticultural Society, 
and the plants, from which the annexed figure was taken, 
flowered there in the month of July, 1829. 
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Fig. |. A Panicle, with the upper part of the Stem. 2. An upper Stem- 
pens 3. A radical Leaf, nat. size. 4. Petal, and 5. Calyx.—Slightly mag- 
nified, 
