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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



The authors of the Flora of North America called thern white, assuming such to be the 

 case from the appearance of the dried specimens. 



Like all the Calif ornian plants, this naturally endures a hot dry summer, by which its 

 wood is kept short- jointed, and is thoroughly ripened, so as to be enabled to support the 

 severe winters to which it is exposed. It then, also, is loaded with clusters of flowers, twice 

 as long as those here represented. 



The two uncoloured figures on either side of our plate represent magnified views of the 

 upper and under side of a leaf. 



