PLATYSTE'MON CALIFOR'NICUS. 
CALIFORNIAN PLATYSTEMON. 
Class. Order. 
I’OLYANDRIA. POLYGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PAPAVEUACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Dni-ation. 
Introiluced 
California. 
1 foot. 
August. 
Annual. 
in 18.33. 
No. 582. 
The name Platystemon is derived from the Greek 
FLATUS, broad, and stemon, a stamen. This f^enus 
was named Boothia by Douglas, and transmitted by 
him under this name to the London Horticultural 
►Society, but changed by 3Ir. Bentham, on account 
of its similarity to Boottia, a generic appellation 
already established. From JVlr. Bentham’s report 
to the Horticultural Society, it ai)pears that the 
Platystemon Californicus has not yet been suffici- 
ently cultivated in Great Britain to assume the 
same handsome free-flowering character which dis- 
tinguisiies the dried specimens received from its 
native country, for he observes in his Report to the 
Horticultural Society, that this little annual flower- 
ed very sparingly, but the fine specimens transmit- 
ted by Mr. Douglas in a dry state promise that it 
may become as interesting to horticulturists from 
its beauty, as it is to the botanist from Ibrming the 
connecting link between the Ranuiiculaceac and 
PapaveraceoD. 
This was one amongst about GO species of plants 
which were raised from seeds transmitted by Mr. 
Douglas from California, when out a second time for 
