176 Notes on Papaveracee. [ZOE 
to have a small green leaf in the center, I found on examination 
that the stigmas were so elongated as to have been caught in the 
apex of the calyptra, and later diverging at the center had drawn 
the calyptra down until it rested on the stamens, 
The pods are 10-ribbed, curved along the placental lines, and 
at maturity separate explosively into two lateral valves, scatter- 
ing the seeds widely in the process. These pods vary perhaps 
more widely than any other part of the plant; they run from 
14-4 lines in width, from 2-4 inches in length; from elliptic 
in section to almost round; from rough to smooth; from blunt to 
long acuminate; from nearly even to prominently ribbed, and 
from light green to purplish red, 
That too much emphasized body, the rim of the torus, runs 
from rather broad to nearly obsolete. 
The foliage, though still whitened, has nearly lost the papular 
pubescence which distinguished it when first brought from its 
island home, and occasional individuals are of a glaucous red 
color. The leaf segments have increased in length and dimin- 
ished in width, though still quite variable in that respect. 
Several years ago an apetalous plant appeared among the 
others. The calyptra remained on the torus until lifted up by 
the developing ovary. In this condition herbarium specimens 
were made, but shortly afterward the plant was destroyed by a 
careless gardener. It grew on the margin of the lily pond, and 
perhaps the sodden condition of the soi] may have had something 
to do with the unusual development. 
In observing these mutations it was found that though each 
individual did not vary in its different flowers and fruits it did 
not transmit its character with any certainty. In the fringed 
form, for instance, out of an ounce or more of seed from the 
parent, only one fringed individual appeared, 
Two not very well-marked forms of Platystemon Californicus 
have been already described as species. ‘These are P. leiocarpus 
F. & M., which is the glabrous-fruited form common north of San 
Francisco, and P. crinitus Greene, a more southern form. Both 
of these, founded largely on pubescence, grade insensibly into the 
