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*ESCHSCH6LTZIA ciocea. 

 Saffron-coloured Eschscholtzia. 



ICOSANDRIA? POLYANDRIA? TETRAGYNU. 



Nat. ord. Papaverace^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p 8.) 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA. Supra, vol. 14, fol. 1168. 



E. crocea ; caule ramoso folioso, foliorum segmentis linearibus, pedunciili cyatho 



infundlbuliformi : limbo maxlmo dilatato, calyce longe acumiiiato. Bentham 



in Hort. Trans, vol. 1, n. s. p. 406. 

 Facies omnino E. CaliforniccB ; sed flores majores aurantiaci, nee Intel, cyathi 



limbus maximus dilatatus, nee obsoletus, et calyx elongato-conicus, nee sub- 



rotundus acuminatus. 



*' In general habit, foliage, and size of the flower, this 

 new species of Eschscholtzia closely resembles the E. Califor- 

 nica, introduced by Mr. Douglas on his first expedition, 

 and now^ so generally admitted to be one of the most beauti- 

 ful additions to our hardy ornamental plants. The present 

 species, however, promises far to surpass even that one in 

 the rich orange colour of the petals. It appears to be 

 equally hardy, and, judging from the experience of a sea- 

 son, to flower still more freely. It is chiefly distinguished 

 botanically from E. Californica by the widely expanded 

 limb of the curious appendage of the peduncle beneath the 

 insertion of the calyx, which is characteristic of the genus, 

 and by the long attenuated point of the calyx." 



We borrow the foregoing account from Mr. Bentham 's 

 paper in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, add- 

 ing only, that it has not hitherto produced any seed, and 

 that two plants in the Garden of the Horticultural Society 

 are all that at present exist in Europe. 



• See folio 1168. 

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