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The type is common in the middle and southern parts 

 of the island. The variety was found under high cliffs 

 near the landing at the northeast end. The foliage in both 

 forms is strikingly beautiful. The erect, compact, tree-like 

 habit of the variety is peculiar. Very likely it deserves the 

 rank of a species. Nothing much like either form is known 

 on the main land. The nearest relatives are E. minutifiora, 

 Watson, and E. rhombipetala, Greene. 



Eschscholtzia peninsularis, Greene, 



Is the common species all about San Diego. It is strictly 



annual and flowers from February to the beginning of May. 



Eschscholtzia Californica, Cham., 



Does not appear in the southern part of the State except 

 at considerable altitudes in the mountains. Mr. Parish has 

 observed it at San Gorgonio Pass, and it has been collected 

 by the writer at Tehachapi Pass and on Guadalupe Island. 

 In all these localities it is the same robust, large-flowered 

 perennial so well known from San Francisco to the borders 

 of British Columbia. 



Eschscholtzia Parishii. 



Annual, slender, less than a foot high, glabrous and glau- 

 cous: stems simple or sparingly branched: peduncles terete, 

 very slender: torus turbinate, no spreading rim, the two 

 margins similar and approximate : petals widely spreading, 

 broad and overlapping each other, apparently light yellow: 

 fruit not seen. 



Eastern slope of Mt. San Jacinto in the Southern part of 

 the State, collected b_v the Parish Brothers (No. 759) in 

 April, 1882. In habit resembling E. peninsularis, but with 

 the torus and corolla (but not the quadrangular pedun- 

 cles) of E. tenuifoUa. The different corolla, the long, slen- 

 der peduncles and the leaves (mostly radical) are in the 

 way of its being included in E. elegans of Guadalupe, to 

 which it is apparently most related. 



