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culturist from its beauty, as it is to the botanist, from forming the conneeting link between the Itanuncu- 
lacecB and PapaveracecB. The trisepalous calyx, and numerous distinct ovaria, would have placed it in the 
former Order, were it not for the structure of the anthers, the very deciduous sepals, and the general habit, 
which do not admit of its being removed from Papaveracea, especially considering its close affinity with 
EscJiscJioltzia, {CJiryseis, Lindl.) through Platystigrna and Dendromecon.” 
The original discoverer of this curious plant, it is but right to state, is Mr Menzies, who gathered specimens 
in California, during the celebrated voyage of Captain Vancouver, and distributed them to his botanical 
friends in this country; but which, I regret to say, have, along with many other of his treasures thus gener- 
oiisljf dispersed, remained to the present day unpublished. — The P. leiocarpum, Fisch., is considered by 
Messrs Torrey and Gray a variety of this, 
PLATYSTIGMA. Benth. 
Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 4-5. Stamina numerosa. Filamenta filiformia. Antherm 
lineares, bilocnlares, lateraliler dehiscentes. Stigmata 3, ovata, acuta, erecto-divergentia. Cupsida oblonga, 
basi attenuata, l-locularis, 3-angularis, 3-sulcata, 3-valvis, ab apice ad basin dehiscens : valvulis conduplieatis 
margine in placentis filiformibus productis. Semina numerosa, minuta, ovoidea, nigra, Isevissima, nitida. 
Benth. 
1. Platystigma limare. Benth. 1. c. p. 407, Hook. Ic. PI. 1. t. 38. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 
1954. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3575. Torr. et Gr. FI. \.p. 65. 
Herba pusilla, caespitosa. Caules brevissimi, dense foliosi. Folia linearia, integerrima, amplexicaulia, 
I-nervia. Scapi semipedales, erecti, uniflori, patentim pilosi. — A smaller plant than Platystemon, and grow- 
ing in closer tufts, but otherwise resembling it very much in habit, though so different in botanical character. 
The flowers are yellow, rather smaller than in Platystemon. 
DENDROMECON. Benth. 
Sepala 2, ovata, caduca. Pet. 4. Stamina plurima. Filamenta filiformia. Antherce lineares. Stigmata 
2, sessilia, brevia, crassiuscula. Capsula elongata, siliquaeformis, l-locularis, bivalvis, valvulis coriaceis duris 
a basi ad apiccm dehiscentibus. PlacentcB marginales, filifonnes. Semina ])!urima, tnajuscula, pyriformia, 
laevia. — Fruiiculus dense foliosus. rigidus, glaber. Folia lanceolata, acuta, denticulata, penninervia, reti- 
culata, rugosa, rigida. Pedunculi axillares, uiiifiori. 
1. Dendromecon rigidum. Benth. 1. c. p. 407. Hook. Ic. Plant. 1. t. 37. Torr. et Gr. 
FI. 1 . p. 64. 
A very singular plant, as Mr Bentham justly remarks, in this Order ; with completely woody stems, and 
rigid pungent leaves, scabrous rather than toothed at the margin, the principal nerves few, and running nearly 
parallel with the midrib, united by transverse ones, which give a reticulated appearance, particularly on the 
underside, where the nerves are prominent. 
1. Chryseis Californica ; caiile ramoso folioso, foliorum seginentis linearibiis, pedun- 
culi cyatlio-infundibuliformi, limbo maximo dilatato, calyce longe acumiiiato. — Esch- 
scholtzia Californica. Cham, {non Lindl. Hook, etc.) — E. crocea. Benth. 1. c. p. ^01. Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. t. 1677. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3495. — Cliry.seis crocea. Torr. et Gr. \.p. 63. — 
/3. minor. Cliry.seis compacta, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1948. 
1 w'as much struck with the eircumstanee of there being no specimens of the C. Californica of our gardens 
in this Californian collection, and was thence led to refer to our first authority for this sjiecics, the figure 
and description of Chamisso, in the Horec Physicce Berolinenses, (p. 73. t. 15.) as well as to original speci- 
