tanic Garden of Paris, from seeds gathered during the voyage 
of La Peyrouse by the gardener Coeignon, on the coast 
of California. That species, which appears to be the one given 
in the following plate, gave rise to Jussieu's Genus Abronia, 
and was described in the Appendix to the Genera Plantarum. 
L'Heritieii, afterwards, as it appears, figured and described 
that plant as Tricatus admirabilis (Abr. tmbellata. Lam.) 
Mr Menzies had the good fortune, in his voyage with Cap- 
tain Vancouveii, to find in the same country a second spe- 
cies of the genus, the one here represented, from a drawing 
made by that gentleman on the native spot, to which I have 
merely added dissections from the dried specimens. 
It grows entirely among sand, upon the coast ; turns almost 
black, and apparently, from its viscid nature, is half-covered 
with sand when dry. It differs in the colour of its flowers, 
and more remarkably in the form of the leaves, from A. tm- 
bellata. 
I regret that I have not been able to figure perfectly form- 
ed achenia, or dissections of the seed. 
Fig. 1. Flower. Fig. 2. Inside of a portion of the perianth, to shew the 
upper part of the stamens. Fig. 3. Perianth, with the base cut open, 
to shew the base of the stamens, forming a cup around the German. 
Fig. 4. Pistil. Fig. 5. Anther. Fig. 6. Young fruit enveloped in the 
persistent base of the perianth. Fig, 7- Young Achenium, with the 
surrounding base of the stamens. Fig. 8. Achenium. — All more or less 
magnified. 
