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of Ipswich, England, a seedsman who probably obtained from 
Carter and Company their novelty. It is then possible that the 
plant grown by Dr. Gray was not more than one or two generations 
removed from the original cultures of Carter and Company. The 
following is a description of the sheet in the Gray Herbarium 
illustrated by Fig. 1 :— 
1. Stems and Foliage .—The stem bears long hairs arising from 
papilla which are colored red as in Lamarckiana and are about as 
numerous as in that species. The large detached leaf, about 
18-5 cm. long with sinuate margins, slightly lobed below, and with 
some evidence of former crinkles, suggests by its shape (although 
too small) the basal leaves of Lamarckiana. The leaves of the upper 
foliage, short petioled, are not so nearly sessile as those of 
Lamarckiana. 
2. Inflorescence .—The inflorescence has longer internodes than 
in Lamarckiana and consequently is not so compact. The bracts 
are broad at the base, slightly toothed, and persistent, becoming 
large, lanceolate leaves on the fruiting branches: those of Lamackiana 
remain much smaller. 
3. Buds .—The buds are about 9-5 cm. long, not stout and 
4-angled as in Lamarckiana. The sepal tips are more attenuate 
than in Lamarckiana, projecting 1 cm. beyond the folded petals. 
The pubescence upon the sepals consists of long hairs arising from 
papillae among much shorter hairs as in Lamarckiana. 
4. Flowers .—The petals are about 4-5 cm. long, as long as 
those of the largest forms of Lamarckiana. The stigma lobes are 
about 8 mm. long, and close to 5 mm. above the tips of the anthers, 
in these respects agreeing with large-flowered forms of Lamarckiana. 
5. Capsules .—The capsules, about 3 cm. long, are longer than 
those of Lamarckiana and not so stout. 
From the above it will be noted that the plant grown by 
Dr. Gray differed from the Lamarckiana of the cultures of De Vries 
in the longer internodes of the inflorescence, in the larger more 
leaf-like bracts, in the more slender form of the buds, in the more 
attenuated sepal tips, and in the longer seed capsules. It would 
profit little to discuss at present whether or not this plant was truly 
representative of the cultures of Carter and Company and whether 
or not their plants became greatly modified during the quarter 
century before the time when De Vries began his studies, at about 
1886, and isolated the form that we know to-day as CEnotliera 
Lamarckiana De Vries, 
