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* ESCHSCHÓLTZIA crócea. 
Saffron-coloured Eschscholtzia. 
ICOSANDRIA? POLYANDRIA? TETRAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Papaveracez. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 8.) 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA. Supra, vol. 14, fol. 1168. 
E. crocea ; caule ramoso folioso, foliorum segmentis linearibus, pedunculi cyatho 
infundibuliformi : limbo maximo dilatato, calyce longe acuminato. Bentham 
in Hort. Trans. vol. 1, n. s. p.406. 3 2 
Facies omnino E. Californice ; sed flores majores aurantiaci, nec lutei, cyathi 
limbus maximus dilatatus, nec obsoletus, et calyx elongato-conicus, nec sub- 
rotundus acuminatus. 
“In general habit, foliage, and size of the flower. this 
new species-of Eschscholtzia closely resembles the E. Califor- 
nica, introduced by Mr. Douglas on his first expedition, 
and now so generally admitted to be one of the most beauti- 
ful additions to our hardy ornamental plants. The present 
species, however, promises far to surpass even that one in 
the rich orange colour of the petals. It appears to be 
egually hardy, and, judging from the experience ‚of a sea- 
son, to flower still more freely. It is chiefly distinguished 
botanically from E. Californica by the widely expanded 
limb of the curious appendage of the peduncle beneath the 
insertion of the calyx, which is characteristic of the genus, 
and by the long attenuated point of the calyx.” 
We borrow the foregoing account from Mr. Bentham’s 
paper in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, add- 
ing only, that it has not hitherto produced any seed, an 
that two plants in the Garden of the Horticultural Society 
are all that at present exist in Europe. 
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* See folio 1168. 
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