with a fine, healthy, glaucous foliage, upon which repose hundreds of rich 

 yellow flowers, unfolding iheir interior, of a dazzling brightness, under the 

 influence of the sun, but closing at the approach of rain. They begin to 

 open in the early part of June, and continue to appear during the greater 

 part of the year. 



The species is perfectly hardy, and is propagated readily by seeds, which 

 are produced in abundance. It is requisite to observe the following precau- 



The seeds should be sown in March, in small 



tions in its management. 



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pots, and placed in a frame, with a little heat. ^ _ ,. 



have acquired ten or twelve leaves each, and not before, they should be 

 turned out of their pots in the open border, in the place in which it is 

 intended that they should remain. Afterwards they cannot be readily 

 transplanted, as their root becomes very fleshy and brittle, and bleeds 

 copiously if broken, which must necessarily happen in removing a larger 

 plant. 



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Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in 

 October 1827. 



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Mr. Douglas has communicated the following note upon the subject of 

 Eschscholtzia. ""During the famous expedition of Vancouver, it was found 

 by Mr. Menzies in the Bay of Monterrey, in the autumn of 1792, and sub- 

 sequently in the vicinity of other Presidios on the coast of Cahfornia. The 

 former of these places being in 36** 35' 45" north latitude, and its northern 

 range 43°, gives it a habitat of 450 miles from north to south, never 

 exceeding a degree of longitude from the coast. It is confined to open, 

 dry, light, or sandy soils, flowering from June until destroyed by frost. 

 It was considered by Dryander close upon Chelidonium, he not having 

 seen the fruit." 



With regard to the natural affinity and structure of Eschscholtzia, we' 

 now beg to offer a remark or two. It was referred by all its original 

 observers,- — that is to say, by Mr. Menzies, who perceived its affinity to a 

 poppy 



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by Dryander, as Mr. Douglas remarks — and by Chamisso, in the 



to Papaveracese. But M.Decandolle, unable 

 to reconcile with that order the apparently perigjmous insertion of its stamens, 

 has placed it, with doubt, at the end of Loasese, a very different station. 

 Yet if we consider the perfect accordance that it has with Papaveracese in 

 all other respects, its decompound leaves, yellow milky juice, deciduous 

 calyx, 4 petals, with 4 parcels of stamina, and its Glaucium-like fruit, it is 

 impossible to doubt its near relationship to these plants. Indeed we are of 

 opinion, that there is nothing even in the insertion of the stamens which 

 would justify its separation; for, in our view, the funnel-shaped fleshy 

 process on which the calyx, petals, and stamens, are inserted, is neither a 

 part of the calyx nor a form of disk, but rather a peculiar extension of the 

 apex of the peduncle, — a manifest tendency to which is observable in Cheli- 

 donium majus and Hypecoum grandiflorum. 



But the most remarkable point of structure in Eschscholtzia exists in the 

 pistillum, which appears to us to point out distinctly the real nature of the 

 same organ in Cruciferae, and to prove that none of the explanations 

 hitherto offered of the theoretical formation of the pistillum of Cruciferse 

 have been true. In order to make this more aoDarent- it will be necessary 



to say something upon the structure of the Cruciferous pistillum. 



It is well known, that in regularly formed fruits the style or sti^ 

 universally and necessarily alternates with the placenta, for reasons which it 



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