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led, their margins smooth and revolute; corolla rather pale yel- 
low, 2 inches in diameter, on a short pedicel; capsules stout, 
curved, 3 to 5 inches long; seed large, spherical, lightly scrobicu- 
late, with a large amber colored caruncle. 
A common large shrub of the island of Santa Cruz, very 
strikingly unlike either the original mainland species, or that of 
the neighboring island of Santa Rosa. The large, pallid, some- 
what succulent leaves are so numerous as to weigh down the 
branches, and this gives the shrub a rather graceful appearance; 
when dry they are thinner and softer than in the other species, 
In their axils the leaf-buds appear as solid, pyramidal, thorn-like 
protuberances, another singular characteristic. va 
DENDROMECON HARFoRDI, Kellogg. This low shrub of 
Santa Rosa Island I have not seen growing. It is more like D. 
rigtdum than the new one above characterized; but its very broad, 
entire leaves and short-peduncled flowers, short, stout branches 
and low, spreading habit, doubtless entitle it to the rank of a 
named variety, at least; and most probably it will eventually 
prove itself a good species. y 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA RAMOSA.—Annual, a foot high, stoutish, 
glabrous and very glaucous; stem simple at base, but above 
compactly branching; leaf-segments numerous, strongly di- 
vergent, or even divaricate ; corolla a half inch or more in diam- 
eter, light greenish yellow; torus cylindrical, with no rim, but an 
erect, double margin; pod 3 inches long, stout and straight; 
seed globular, reticulated. £. elegans, var. ramosa, Greene, 
Bull. Cal. Acad. i., 182. 
A strictly insular species, first found by the writer on Guad- 
alupe, then on San Clemente, by Mr. W. S. Lyon, and lastly, this 
year on a small rocky islet occupied by sea birds, very close to 
the northern shore of Santa Cruz. This exceedingly well marked 
Eschscholtzia differs from all others in its compact, tree-like. 
habit. All the rest, except £&. elegans, have a loose, straggling 
mode of growth, branching from the very ground, with scarcely 
any part of the plant erect. &. e/egans, to which I at first re- 
ferred it as a variety, has different foliage, large deep yellow 
flowers, and smaller, curved pods, besides elongated and smoother 
seeds. It lacks, moreover, that singular dendroid compactness 
