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are glaucous. The root is perennial in two species, one of 

 which is the type of the genus. The remainder are annual; 

 and even those truly perennial often flower, like annuals, 

 when only a few months old. 



The following arrangement of the species is respectfully 

 submitted, in hope that it may be found helpful to all who 

 may be interested in the further study of these brilliant and 

 most characteristic plants of the Pacific Coast. 



# Petals broad, overlapping each other in the open flower, 

 persistent for two or more days. 



+- Corolla funnelform to widely eampanulate, i\ever rotate- 

 expanded. 



4-h- Outer margin of the torus forming a broad, herbaceous, 

 spreading rim. 



E. Californica, Cham. 



Perennial, very smooth and slightly glaucous: stems 

 usually weak and decumbent, freely branching: petals an 

 inch or two long, yellow with an orange spot at base, or 

 more commonly brilliant orange throughout: inner margin 

 of the torus short, thin and nerveless : seed with prominent 

 favose reticulations. — Watson, Bot. Cal. I. 22. 



Common from the sandhills along the seaboard to the 

 foothills of the Sierra. The stouter, more erect, less branch- 

 ing form, with the largest and most deeply colored corollas, 

 belongs to the interior, extending northward to Oregon and 

 Washington, where it is known as the var. Douglasii, Gray; 

 but it does not seem to merit even a varietal name. 



E. peninsular is 



Annual, smooth and glaucous, slender, erect, much more 

 branched than the preceding, with corollas of one third the 

 size and more broadly eampanulate: rim of torus broader in 

 proportion, the inner margin a very short, nerveless, hyaline 

 ring: seed slightly elongated and distinctly apiculate at each 

 end, reticulations less regularly favose. 



