VOL. I. | Platystemon and Eschscholtzia. 281 
character insisted upon in separating £. maritima* as a species, is 
very common in the Coast forms of £. Californica. About Mon- 
terey, and between that place and Castroville, the ordinary perennial 
large flowered form is often covered with rough pubescence, even 
on the capsules and on the calyptra. The leaves are sometimes 
coarsely cut and condensed, sometimes dissected into long filiform 
divisions. The plants are generally green, having less than usual 
of the glaucous bloom,so striking in 4. maritima. About Felton and 
other places in the Santa Cruz mountains, the plants are lower, more 
spreading, the foliage whiter and more condensed, but still scabrous. 
About Point Sur and San Simeon forms occur near the sea which 
are nearly as white and condensed as £. maritima, but not scabrous. 
E. Californica (EF. peninsularis Greene) is either annual or peren- 
nial about San Diego. The writer verified the fact by examining 
the roots, on Coronado Beach as well as on the mainland. 
On the plains of the interior valley the perennial coast plant be- 
comes more upright, merging into forms which make’a close ap- 
proach in habit, though larger flowered, to £. minutiflora. Such 
forms are found about Judsonville in Contra Costa County; near 
Tracy, and all the way down the San Joaquin Valley to T ehachapi 
_(at which place in moist situations grows one the stoutest perennial 
forms); in the foothills behind Pasadena; through the mountains back 
of San Diego; and some distance down in Baja California. They are 
usually annual, but sometimes perennial. The rim of the torus is 
variable, usually narrow, and often obsolete. a 
E. minutiflora is almost as closely connected with an annual form 
found at moderate elevations on the eastern slopes of the coast hills 
and mountains. Examples of this have been collected on the road 
to the Sur, south of Monterey - on the crest of Ben Lomond, look- 
ing down on the village of Boulder Creek; on Loma Prieta, on the 
new stage road from Hopland to Lakeport; at Kelseyville; and near 
Eppersons (on the opposite side of the valley) in Colusa County. 
_ This ordinarily annual, but sometimes perennial plant, runs through 
a series of variations while preserving the same general habit. It ee 
upright, unless of too rank growth, branching freely, but not so 
-divaricately as Z. minutiflora, the leaves are usually rather small. ; 
In a specimen from Loma Prieta, collected by W. W. Price, the 
upper ones are simple, the flowers an inch or less across. Somes 
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