320 
Platystemon Californicus, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2 ser. i. 405. 
Sutter plains. What is probably a dwarfed form only four to 
six inches high, with erect habit, radical tuft of leaves, and pods 
never more than one or two seeded, was found at 1500 ft. on 
South Peak. 
Eschscholtzia crocea, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. n. ser. i. 406. 
The most widely distributed and showy flowered Eschscholtzia 
of the interior parts of California, and which is common in culti- 
vation as £. Californica, is not the plant of Chamisso. The true 
£. Californica belongs to the sand dunes and coast hills of San 
Francisco and Monterey, and that is where the botanists of the 
Russian expedition obtained it. The one of the Sacramento and 
San Joaquin Valleys, which I am now considering, is without 
doubt the £. crocea of Bentham. They are both perennial, but 
£. crocea is different in size, habit, hue of foliage, and color of 
flowers. Its chief marks are the large size of the orange corolla; 
the conspicuously spreading scarious torus rim; and the long- 
conical calyptra, as distinguished from that of £. Caléfornica, 
which is oval and abruptly short-pointed. My specimens from 
the Buttes agree perfectly with the figure in the Botanical Regis- 
ter, t 1679. 
_ Eschscholtzia tenuifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4812, not of Benth. 
Peduncle quadrangular ; pod peculiar in the prominence of 
the ribs. In fruit; only a few of the pale yellow flowers linger- 
ing. Willow Branch. 
Eschscholtsia hypecoides, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. n. ser. i, 407. 
A good species and very easily distinguished from the fore- 
going. That has the leaves all radical,seldom more than half the 
length of the numerous quadrangular scapes, finely and often 
sparingly cut into linear divisions; corolla 3-5 lines long, yellow; 
capsule curved, seeds strongly muricate. This is more strictly 
erect with terete stems usually simple or 2-3 branched from the 
base ; radical leaves fewer, somewhat leafy stemmed, all mostly 
twice pinnately cleft or parted into broader divisions, general 
outline broadly ovate, calyptra ovate-acuminate ; petals orange, 
seven lines long; young capsule straight, mature fruit un- 
known. 
At about 1600 ft. on South Peak, 
