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15E(i. P. ccrnmis Gre<>ne I.e. 193, type loc. Santa Catalina Isl., Trorf; ;Fedde I.e. 131, fig. 18r, s. 

 P. commixtus Greene I.e. 176, tj'pe loo. Lake Co. or Colusa Co. P. contortus Greene I.e. 175. 

 based on a spin, from Lake Co. or Colusa Co., Curran. P. crenatus Greene I.e. 175, type loc. 

 Lake Co. or Colusa Co., Curran. P. elegans Greene I.e. 178, type loc. San Emlgdio, Kern Co., 

 Eastwood. P. emargitiatiis Greene I.e. 172 (1903), type loc. foothills near Stanford, C. F. 

 Baker 6G5. P. ex.iculptvs Greene I.e. 182, type loc. Antioeh, Brandegee ; Fedde Lc. 123, fig. 

 16h, j. p. glyptolobm Greene I.e. 182, type loc. Lakeport, C. F. Baker 3058. P. greeneanus 

 Fedde, Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 22:94, fig. 2 (1904), based on Mendocino, H. E. Brown 811, 

 and Bodega Point and Point Reyes, Eastiuood; Engler, Pflzr. 4'°':114, fig. 15b (1909). P. 

 Iiallii Fed<le I.e. 130, fig. 18n, type loc. Kenworthy, San Jacinto Mts., Hall 1144. P. heterander 

 Greene I.e. 181, type loc. Butte Co. foothills, C. C. Bnwe. P. hispidulus Greene I.e. 193, type 

 loe. San Nicolas Isl., Trask; Fedde I.e. 131, fig. 18p. Q. P. In/acintldmts Greene I.e. 180, type 

 loc. Thomas Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 543; Fedde I.e. 121, fig. 16p. g; approaches closely 

 P. crinitus Greene. P. intennrdius Fedde I.e. 119, type loe. Alameda Co., W. P. Gihhons. P. 

 leptander Greene I.e. 190, type loe. Huron, Fresno Co., T. Brandegee. P. leucanthus Greene 

 I.e. 188, type loc. San Bernardino foothills, Parish. P. locscnerUiwus Fedde Le. 128, type loc. 

 Riverside, Hall 3794. P. mendocinus Greene I.e. 181, Cahto, Mendocino Co., Eastwood. P. 

 microlohus Greene l.e. 189, type loe. Arroyo Grande, Alice King. P. nigricans Greene I.e. 174, 

 type loc. Midway sta., e. of Livermore, Greene; Fedde I.e. 118, fig. 15j. P. obtectus Greene 

 I.e. 18(i, type loe. Witch Creek, San Diego Co., Ji. D. AJderson: Fedde I.e. 124, fig. 17; var. 

 sanctanan Greene I.e. type loc. Santa Lucia Mts., Ea.^-twood. P. ornithopns Greene I.e. ](i7, 

 type loc. Santa Barbara Isl., Brandegee. P. pectinatus Greene I.e. 184, type loe. Alcalde, 

 Fresno Co., Eastwood. P. penicillatus Greene I.e. 185, type loc. "Santa Maria Mts." P. 

 petrinus Greene I.e. 166, type loe. San Pedro, Brandegee. P. pilosellvs Greene I.e. 185, type 

 loc. Madera, P. S. Buckminster. P. proximus Greene I.e. 172, type loc. Chico, R. M. Austiii, 

 H. E. Brown ; Fedde I.e. 118, fig. 15r. P. purpuratvs Greene I.e. 168 based on spms. from 

 Monterey and Castroville, Brandegee, Greene. P. quercetorum Greene I.e. 173, type loc. Oak- 

 land, Chcsnut ; Fedde, I.e. 120, fig. 15h. P. rvgo.ms Greene I.e. 183, type loc. Pilot Ridge, 

 Eldorado Co. foothills, Eastwood. P. setosus Greene I.e. 194, type loe. Santa Barbara Is!., 

 Trask. P. sphaerocarpus Greene I.e. 168, type loe. Colusa Jet., T. Brandegee ; Fedde I.e. 117, 

 fig. 15d. p. subereus Greene I.e. 184, type loc. Colusa Co., Brandegee. P. tesselatus Greene 

 I.e. 171, type loc. Briones Hills, Contra Costa Co., Greene. P. torttw-ms Greene I.e. 170, type 

 loe. Tracy, C. F. Baker 2780. P. turbinatus Greene Lc. 188, type loc. VisaJia, T. J. Patterson; 

 Fedde I.e. 127, fig. 18d. P. tiimpaniferus Fedde I.e. 124, fig. 16k, L, type loc. Kemvorthy, San 

 Jacinto Mts., Hall 1144. P. verec-imdits Greene I.e. 191, type loe. San Diego, Greene; Fedde 

 I.e. 130, fig. 18o. p. villosus Green I.e. 165, type loc. Bodega Pt., Eastwood. 



2. MECONELLA Nutt. 



Annual herl>s with opposite leaves. Sepals 3, rarely 2. Petals 6, rarely 4, 

 deeiduotis. Stamens 6 to 12, or nnmerons. Carpels 3, combined into a sintrle 

 1-celled ovary, wliich is 3-liibed or nearly terete. Placentae as many as the 

 carpels, parietal, niany-ovnled. Stifjma.s ovate to subulate. Capside completely 

 3-valved, dehiscent through the placentae. — Species 2, California to British 

 Columbia. (Greek mekon, poppy, and ella, dimmutive.) 



Plants with the leaves all basal or sub-basal and -svith unbranched hairy scapes; petals light 

 yellow; ovary and capsule narrowly obovoid, 3-lobed ^ 1. M. linearis. 



Plants with branching leafy stems and glabrous peduncles; petals white; ovary and capsule 

 linear 2. M. oregana. 



1. M. linearis Jepson n. comb. (Fig. 113.) Plants with the leaves all basal 

 or ncarlj' so, the scapes -i to 8 inches liigli and hispid with spreading hairs; leaves 

 linear, 1 to 2i/4 inches long, sessile; sepals brownish; petals light yellow, cuneate- 

 orbieular or obovate, 4 to 9 lines long; stamens numerous, filaments linear or 

 oblong-dilated, rarely filifomi; body of capsule 5 to 7 lines long. 



Sandy soil in the Coast Ranges from Sonoma Co. to Santa Barbara Co., chiefly 

 near the coast, but inland to the southern Sierra Nevada (Fresno Co. to Kern 

 Co.) ; north to Oregon. Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: near Fresno, Beaton; Kaweah, Hopping 254; Kcene sta., Kern Co., 

 Heller 7807. Coast Ranges: Santa Barbara Co., Summers 21; Castroville, K. Brandegee; 

 San Francisco, C. E. Miohener {Hesperomccon platystemon Greene); Oakland, Holder 2521; 

 Antioeh, Chesnut tf- Drew {Hesperomccon angiistum Greene). 



Note on variation. — The filaments are narrowly linear to oblong, 7-ather rarely filiform. 

 Filiform filaments may frec|uently be found in the same flower with broader filaments, especially 

 in the ease of dwarfed plants: Rowon, Tehachapi Range, Jepson 6715; bctw. Mareell and 



