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as the mature capsule, the latter 3 to ? inch long, nearly 
elliptical. 
Species very well marked by its narrow-linear filaments, 
and especially by its stigmas which are as narrow as in some 
species of Platystemon, and greatly elongated. It is known 
to me only as collected by Miss Eastwood at Exeter, Tulare 
Co., Calif., 26 April, 1895. 
3. H. pratystemon. Platystigma lineare, Gray, Syn. Fl. in 
part, not of Benth. Platystemon linearis, Curran, Proc. Calif. 
Acad. 2 ser. i. 242 and Greene, Fl. Fr.282 and Man. 10 in 
part, and as to the plant about San Francisco only. Lealy 
branches very short, greatly surpassed by the stout, mostly 
ascending rather than erect peduncles, the whole 4 to 8 
inches high; peduncles sparsely hirsute: buds exactly oval, 
sometimes narrowly so: corollas dull-white an inch or more 
in breadth, widely expanding, the petals all obovate and ses- 
sile, the 3 inner not much narrower than the outer; stamens 
about 18, all of equal length; filaments broader than the 
anthers and not much longer, elliptical, the anthers inserted 
on an abrupt acumination: capsule 4 to 4 inch long, ellip- 
soidal ; stigmas ovate, very acute. 
Species apparently local on the San Francisco peninsula; 
distributed long ago by Dr. Kellogg; later by Miss East- 
wood, and also by Mr. Bioletti; an excellent sheet in U. 5. 
Herb. purports to have been gathered in “California, G. R. 
Vasey, 1875,” and is no doubt from San Francisco. 
The collectors, all but one, in so far as I see, fail to name 
any special locality in or about San Francisco for this fine 
plant. Mr. Bioletti names Lake Merced. During all my 
years of residence in that vicinity, while familiarizing my self 
with almost all the best suburban botanizing grounds, I 
never once met with the plant. As the Meconella that is 
local there is the most showy member of its genus, so also 
