262 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
2. ESCHSCHOLZIA Cham. CALIFORNIA POPPY. 
Smooth, slender, more or less glaucous annuals with finely dissected leaves and 
colorless sap; flowers bright yellow to orange, 5 cm. or less in diameter; sepals coherent 
at the tip, caducous; stamens numerous; pod elongate-linear, 10-nerved. 
1. Eschscholzia parvula (A. Gray) Cockerell, Bot. Gaz. 26: 279. 1898. 
Eschscholzia douglasti parvula A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 10. 1853. 
Eschscholzia scapifera Fedde, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 4: 153. 1904. 
Type Locatitry: ‘‘Among rocks, on mountains near E] Paso.’’ 
Rance: Western Texas to Arizona, south into Mexico. 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Florida Mountains; Carrizalillo Mountains; near 
White Water; Organ Mountains; Tortugas Mountain. Dry hills and mesas, in the 
Upper Sonoran Zone. 
A beautiful little short-lived annual, appearing among rocks along the mountain 
foothills. It is well worth cultivation in gardens throughout the State, where it 
would doubtless grow readily. 
8. PAPAVER L. Poppy. 
Annual or perennial herbs with a white juice; leaves various, pubescent or glabrous, 
glaucous or bright green; petals mostly 4; sepals 2; stigmas united in a flat crown rest- 
ing upon the summit of the ovary; fruit ovoid to globose, opening by pores under the 
edge of the stigmas. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Low perennial, 15 cm. or less, hairy, not glaucous; leaves pinnately 
cleft; petals yellow. ........2..2. 22222022 eee eee eee eee eee 1. P. coloradense. 
Tall annual, 50 to 80 cm., glaucous, not hairy; leaves not pinnately 
cleft; petals white to red, never yellow... ................ 2. P. somniferum. 
1. Papaver coloradense Fedde, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 7: 256. 1909. 
Papaver nudicaule coloradense Fedde, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 7: 256. 1909. 
TypE Locaity: Grays Peak, Colorado. 
Ranae: High peaks of Colorado and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Taos Mountains (Bailey 853). Arctic-Alpine Zone, 
A rare plant of high peaks in the northern part of the State, coming into our range 
from Colorado. It may be recognized by its small, bright yellow flowers, borne 
singly on hairy, scapelike peduncles. 
2. Papaver somniferum L. Sp. Pl. 508. 1753. COMMON POPPY. 
Tyre Loca.iry: ‘Habitat in Europae australioris ruderatis.’’ 
New Mexico: Mesilla Valley. 
The opium poppy has escaped from cultivation at several places in the Mesilla 
Valley and persists from year to year. 
55. FUMARIACEAE. Fumitory Family. 
1. CAPNOIDES Adans. 
Short-lived perennial or biennial herbs with watery juice, compound, usually 
finely dissected leaves, and racemose yellow or pink flowers; sepals 2, small; corolla 
irregular, one of the outer pair of petals spurred at the base; stamens 6, in 2 groups 
opposite the outer petals; capsule 2-valved, linear-oblong; seeds lenticular, shining, 
black. 
