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deringly for those of what I assume to be P. Californicus ; 
for, while as outlined roughly and in mass in the figure of 
the flower they may be guessed to have been short and ob- 
cordate, when it comes to the two of those organs that are 
figured apart from the flower, neither one at all represents 
an outer-series filament of this species. If this came to pass 
through neglecting to note the strong difference between 
outer and inner filaments it was an unfortunate piece of 
somebody’s carelessness; quite as bad a blunder as is made 
in the text accompanying the figure, where the writer says 
of the filaments that the “ inner ones are gradually broader.” 
Exactly the reverse of this is always the case. 
Upon the whole, I have been tempted to write a question 
mark after my citation of this Bot. Mag. t. 3579. Yet, I feel 
scarcely a doubt that this plant is what they had in view, 
but in the representation of which they were more careless 
than they should have been. 
If above I have not cited the usual Bot. Reg. t. 1679 for P. 
Californicus, it has been for the reason that that represents 
clearly a different species; though it appears to have been 
mixed with the original materials sent by Douglas, and to 
have been grown in England from seeds sent by him, and 
is also known to this day only from the vicinity of Monterey. 
Ishall discuss this hereafter under the name of P. purpuratus. 
2. P. terocarpus, F. & M. Ind. Sem. Petr. (Dec. 1835), 
p. 47; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 8; Linnzea, Litt. Ber. (1837), 
p. 117. Of the size and with the habit of the preceding, the 
leaves equally broad, short and obtuse, but more nearly 
glabrous, scarcely ciliate: corollas quite the same, but the 
filaments different, none obcordate, even the outer series 
much longer than their anthers, cuneate-oblong, merely 
retuse or even obtuse at summit, the inner similar but 
longer and narrower: carpels about 12, usually glabrous, 
