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freely and decumbently branched, slender as compared 
with P. Californicus and strongly hirsute: leaves narrowly 
linear, obtuse, not callous-tipped: small round-obovoid buds 
villous, hardly nodding: corolla ? inch broad, rotate above 
a very short turbinate base, the inner petals much narrower 
-= and acutish as compared with the obovate outer 3, all pale 
yellow or cream-color at first, all but those of the very 
earliest flowers persistent over the mature fruit and chang- 
ing to rose-red or rose-purple: stamens of the outer series 
with obcordate filaments, their. anthers not always sessile, 
sometimes raised on a short stipe, those of the inner emargi- 
nate; anthers of all much shorter than in most species, 
elliptic-oblong to linear: carpels 16 to 20, either moniliform 
and with short smooth round joints, or merely torulose, the 
joints not well developed and the seeds in this ease borne 
nakedly within the capsule-like cavity, the whole body of 
the carpel usually hirsute with finer and more spreading 
as well as more copious hairs than those of P. Californicus, 
or sometimes nearly or altogether glabrous. 
Completely distinct from P. Californicus by many charac- 
ters, though originally confused with it, this species has 
been collected by Brandegee at Monterey with cream-colored 
corollas, at Castroville in the same region with almost red 
petals. Copious specimens of his have been seen in U.S. 
Herb. Calif. Acad. and of Parish. I collected it myself at 
Monterey in 1895, but in very mature specimens, with only 
torulose and almost vacant carpels. At the other extreme, 
as to development, are the beautiful specimens collected this 
year and distributed by Mr. Heller. I have found no an- 
thers quite so strongly stipitate within the obcordate notch 
of the filaments as they are represented in the figure cited ; 
but the traces of that character exist in many specimens. 
11. P. communis. Loosely branched and reclining, the leafy 
branches often a foot long, the peduncles comparatively 
