40 PITTONIA. 
being taken up out of the society’s herbarium, where dried |. 
specimens from Oregon were preserved. By its distinctly 
hirsute pubescence, elongated peduncles far surpassing the - 
leaves, and very large narrow-petaled corollas, it is most 
clearly distinct from V. Nuttallii ; while the intermediate 
V. linguzfolia is recognizable as separate from it by its — 
smaller broad-petaled corollas, and shorter and denser pu- 3 
bescence. 
The name V. premorsa is inappropriate ; for, whatever the - 
young plants grown in England from seed may have shown, . 
none of the native Oregonian specimens to which we refer 
here exhibit any other than an elongated branching root. 
It is also to be remarked that the figure, which is the only © 
publication type for V. premorsa, gives no indication of any ' 
purple coloring on the outside of the petals, and that the 
dried specimens for the most part exhibit the corollas as clear 
yellow; though a few from Plumas Co., California, collected 
by Mrs. Austin, have the uppermost pair of petals entirely 
of a rich brownish purple on the outside. But in this form 
the petals are broader than in the type, and the plant may 
be a hybrid between przmorsa and purpurea, possibly. 
V. AUREA, Kell., Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 185, f. 54 (1863). This 
is readily distinguishable from V. 
character, the manifest leafy stem 
and by its very different leaves, t 
abound in manuscript 
18 species. Under the 
