280 Platystemon and Eschscholtzia. [ ZOE 
Plants from Stites, in Colusa County, from the same field, have the 
petals, either persistent or soon falling. In some of these specimens 
occur the longest capsules I have ever seen, sometimes more than 
an inch in length, and more or less twisted. 
A very peculiar form grows at Colusa Junction, in the immediate 
vicinity of the railway station. The plants are rather tall and branch- 
ing, pubescence soft, and the mature heads of fruit only a fourth to 
a third of an inch high, glabrous, glaucous, and almost perfectly 
globular. The stigmas are very short, and the petals only moder- 
ately persistent. : 
In the Tehachapi pass, at an elevation of over four thousand 
feet, grows the most densely hairy of all’ our forms. It was col- 
lected at that place, and added to the herbarium of the California 
Academy of Sciences by the writer as long ago as May, 1884, and 
it has recently been again collected by Prof. Greene, who de- 
scribed it as anew species, P. crinifus.* His description so abounds 
with erroneous statements that some correction of them may be 
pardoned here. He says ‘the petals are deep greenish yellow 
marcescent—persistent : stamens innumerable : short torulose pods 
scarcely longer than the persistent linear stigmas.” The author 
must have been singularly unfortunate in his specimens. The pu- 
bescence, though more abundant, and perhaps a little longer, is 
scarcely softer, and no whiter than many of the forms of the Sacra- 
mento Valley. The stigmas are, of course, always persistent in all 
the forms, and vary in length in all. In specimens of so-called P. 
crinitus, before the writer, some of the capsules are three-fourths of 
an inch long, with stigmas one-fourth their length; the flowers are of 
the ordinary color of the species everywhere, and although the petals 
are usually persistent, they are certainly not marcescent. The au- 
thor is equally mistaken in supposing that the buds of P. Califor- 
nicus are ‘‘ unvaryingly obovate,” and it would probably not have 
occurred to any other botanist to call the stamens “ innumerable,” 
excepting in the sense of their uncertainty, 
The variations of Eschscholtzia, recently collected, show that _ 
_ the pubescence, or roughness of the foliage, which was the chief i 
“Pits, 8, 13. 
