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 down3^ 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. 



