Poppy Family L63 



conical disk of the combined radiate stigmas, dehiscent 

 only under the edge of it by as many dentiform short 

 lids ; placentae 4—20, mostly projecting far into the cell. 



1. P. Californicum Gray. Annual, erect, simple or branch- 

 ing, 3-6 <1 in. high, sparsely pilose-pubescent, leafy below; petals 

 brick-red with greenish spot at base, 2 cm. long or less; capsule 

 1 cm. long or more, clavate-turbinate, 6-11 -nerved. 



Frequent on shady slopes in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Moun- 

 tains. March-May. 



9. BICUCULLA Allans. 



Perennial glabrous herbs, with compound and much- 

 dissected leaves and more or less irregular flowers. Se- 

 pals 2, small and scale-like. Petals 4 in 2 pairs ; the 

 outer pair with more or less spreading tips, spurred or 

 saccate at base ; inner pair narrower, callous tipped, 

 cohering over the enclosed stigma. Stamens 6, in 2 sets 

 of 3 each ; anthers of middle stamens 2-celled, the others 

 1-celled ; filaments slightly united or distinct. Ovary 

 1-celled with 2 parietal several-ovuled placentae ; stigma 

 2-lobed contrary to the placentae. Fruit a silique-form 

 capsule. 



1. B. chrysantha (H.& A.) Coville. Pale and glaucous; stem 

 erect, 6-15 dm. high; leaves twice pinnate, and the more or less 

 confluent divisions pinnately 3-5-cleft or incised; inflorescence 

 compound thyrsoid-paniculate, many-flowered; flowers yellow, 

 erect, subterete, 1-15 dm. long, deciduous; outer petals soon 

 spreading or recurving to below the middle, slightly gibbous at 

 base, but little larger than the inner; these dorsally crested with 

 a long and wdde undulate or crisped wing. (Dicentra chrysantha 

 H. & A.) 



Frequent in the chaparral belt throughout our range. May-July. 



2. B. ochxoleuca (Engelm.) Heller. Much like the last in 

 habit, but the flowers 2-2.5 cm. long, ochroleucous ; only the 

 tips of the outer petals spreading ; the inner with purple tips and 

 with large wing crest. (Dicentra ochroleuca Engelm.) 



Occasional on the northern slope of the Santa Monica Mountains. 



