284 PAPAVERACEJE. 



1. D. rigiduiii, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2 ser. i. 407 (1834); Hook. Ic. 

 t. 37; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, t. 3. Shrub 2—8 ft. high, with many rigid 

 ascending branches and slender branchlets ; bark whitish : leaves ovate- 

 to linear-lanceolate, 1 — 3 in. long, very acute or mucronate, vertical, the 

 very short petiole being twisted, the margin scabrous-denticulate: fl. 

 1 — 3 in. broad, the petals nearly rotate-spreading: capsules slightly 

 arcuate, IJ^ — 2}^ in. long: seeds 1% lines long. — In clayey or gravelly 

 soil among the foothills of both mountain ranges, but more common in 

 the Coast Range. Mar. — June. 



5. ESCHSCHOLTZIA, Chamisso. Glabrous and more or less glau- 

 cous flaccid herbs, with colorless bitter juice (that of the roots reddish), 

 and alternate dissected leaves. Flowers solitary, yellow or orange-colored. 

 Calyx a synsepalous oblong or conical mitre-like organ deciduous from 

 the more or less fuunelform-dilated and variously rimmed torus which 

 bears the 4 petals. Stamens mostly oo ; filaments very short, more or 

 less firmly attached to the base of the petals; anthers linear or oblong, 

 usually longer than the filaments. Ovary linear; style very short; 

 stigmas 2 or more, subulate-filiform. Capsule 10-nerved, 1-celled, oo - 

 seeded, 2-valved, the valves elastically dehiscent from base to apex, 

 forcibly ejecting the seeds; these spherical, reticulate, tuberculate, or 

 rarely pitted; cotyledons either linear and entire, or deeply bifid into 

 narrowly linear segments. 



* Torus with an erect hyaline inner, and a spreading outer and herbaceous 



rim; cotyledons deeply bifid, their linear segments divergent. 



■i— Perennials. 



1. E. Californica, Cham. Hor. Phys. Berol. 73. t. 15 (1820); Linnaea, 

 i. 554 (1826); Raf. Fl. Tell. ii. 92 (1836), under Omonoia; T. & Q. Fl. i. 63 

 (1838), under Chryseis. Glabrous, glaucescent, the stems decumbent or 

 at length procumbent, 1 — 2 ft. long, regularly dichotomous below, above 

 bearing a flower opposite each leaf: leaves ternately dissected, the ulti- 

 mate segments linear, obtuse: calyx oblong or ovoid, abruptly short- 

 pointed; torus-rim broad : petals about % in. long, bright yellow with 

 an orange spot at base : pods small for the size of the plant (2 in. long) : 

 seeds conspicuously reticulate. — This, the type of the genus, is found 

 only along the seaboard, in sandy soil, about San Francisco, Monterey, 

 etc. ; flowering almost all the year round. We doubt if it has ever been 

 in cultivation; and it is certain that all or nearly all of the so-called 

 E. Californica of the seedsmen's and even of the botanists' catalogues 

 belongs to the next. 



2. E. Dou^lasii, Walp. Rep. i. 116 (1843); H. & A. Bot. Beech. 320 

 (1840), under Chryseis: E. Californica, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1168 (1828), 

 not Cham. Tufted stems decumbent, 1 ft. high or more, obscurely if at 

 all dichotomous; peduncles more elongated, less regularly opposite the 



