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solving into several follicles. Plant villous. 

 Flowers cream color. — 0. 



1. P. CALiroRNicusBenth. Common. Spring. 

 2. Platystigma Benth. Cream Cups. 



Sepals 3. Petals 6. Stamens oo; filaments 

 flattened only at the base. Ovary 3-angiilar, 

 1-celled; placentte 3; stigmas 3. Fruit a cap- 

 sule, 3-angular, S-valved, oo-seeded. — 0. Ex- 

 ternal petals yellow, internal cream color. 



1. P. LINEARE Benth. Filaments flat. — 

 Common. Spring. 



2. P. Californicum Benth. & Hook. Fila- 

 ments terete. — San Mateo. Spring. 



3. Dendroinecon Benth. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens oo. Ovary 

 terete.linear with 2 placenta3; ovules od; stigma 

 sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule 1-celled, 2- 

 valved; seeds on the margin of the valves. 

 Flowers yellow. Leaves rigid, entire. — ^ . 



1. D. RIGIDUS Benth. — Tamalpais. Wright's 

 Station. Summer. 



4. Eschscholtzia Cham. California Poppy. 



Calyx and corolla inserted into a turbinate 

 thalamus. Calyx gamosepalus, circumscissile 

 at base. Petals 4. Stamens oo, adhering to 

 the base of petals; filaments very short; an- 

 thers extrorse. Ovary free, terete, 1-celled, 

 with 2 placentae; stigmas 4. Fruit a capsule, 



