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cence, often extending even to the calyx, is wholly wanting 

 in the smaller of Mrs. Austin's specimens, which are never- 

 theless distinguishable from E. Californica by the torus, and 

 by the seeds, which are less regularly reticulate than in 

 that species. 



-i — E- Corolla rotate-spreading ; annual species, ivith the two 

 margins of the torus similar and closely approximate. 



E. tenuifolia, Beuth. 



Sparingly hirsute-scabrous: stems very short: leaves sub- 

 radical, their lobes few, long and linear-filiform, or more 

 numerous, shorter and a little wedge-shaped: peduncles 

 scape-like, very slender and exactly quadrangular : petals a 

 half inch long, usually pale yellow, never orange : seeds not 

 reticulated, but more or less clothed with prominent tuber- 

 culations, or even ligulate projections — .E. ca3spitosa, and E. 

 hypecoides, Benth. 



Common on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It is 

 not improbable that E. ccespilosa will also have to be restored 

 on the strength of the characters of the seed alone. Our 

 material is not yet sufficient however to fully warrant such 

 action. 



E. glyptosperma. 



Wholly glabrous and very glaucous: stems very short: 

 leaves much dissected, but short and compact: scape-like 

 peduncles numerous, six inches high, terete, and rather 

 stout: corolla as in the preceding species, but of a deeper 

 yellow : seeds not reticulate, but deeply pitted and of an 

 ash-gray color. 



A most peculiar species, collected in 1884, by Mrs. Cur- 

 ran, on the Mohave Desert. The seeds are remarkably un- 

 like those of any other known Eschscholtzia. 



E. minutiflora, Watson. 



Smooth and very glaucous, a foot or more high and much 

 branched : corolla 3 lines broad, greenish yellow : double 



