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PAPAVEBACEAE 



Keene, Kern Co., K. Brandegee 98; San Francisco, K. Brandegee Ix. There is no definite 

 constancy yet -worked out between filament breadth and other characters. The ground color 

 of the petals is mostly cream color with a yellow phase at base; the outer 3 are often deep 

 yellow, egg-yellow, or" egg-yellow and cream iu vaiying proportions, or with a yellow central 

 splotclL Sometimes the flowers are white with yellow center, sometimes the flowers fade to 

 rose-pink. The striking color form, var. pulchellum Jcpson n. comb., lias the outer petals 



yellow, the inner white, but this 

 color scheme is not correlated defi- 

 nitely with any other characters ; 

 it occurs on the Sonoma Co. and 

 San Francisco Co. coasts. 



Ref s. — Meconella line.\ris Jep- 

 son. Plattistirima lincare Benth. 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. ser. 2, 1:407 

 (1835), tvpe a garden plant (Cal. 

 seed, Douglas) ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 38 

 (1836), filaments linear-filiform, 

 Monterey, Doualas: Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 206 (1901). Hesperome- 

 con afflne Greene, Pitt. 5:147 

 (1903), type loe. Exeter, Eastwood. 

 is intermediate between the species 

 and H. plaiiistemon Greene, that is 

 the filaments are filiform, the outer 

 dilated. H. lyJatiistemon Greene I.e. 

 148 (1903), typo loe. San Fran- 

 cisco, Kellogg. H. strictitm Greene 

 I.e. 149 (1903), type loe. San Luis 

 Obispo, Parrif. B. angustum 

 Greene I.e. 149 (1903), type loe. 

 Antioch sand hills, Greene. H. 

 luteolum Greene I.e. 150 (1903), 

 based on spms. from Ben Lomond 

 ( Santa Cruz Co. ) and Castroville 

 (Monterey Co.), T. Brandegee. 

 Var. PULCHELLUM Jepson. H. pul- 

 chellum Greene I.e. 150 (1903), 

 based on Bot. Reg. t. 1954 (1837), 

 an illustration of a garden plant, 

 the seed originally from Fort Ross, 

 Sonoma Co.; ef. also Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3.";75 (1837). 



2. M. oregana Niitt. var. 

 californica Jepson n. oomb. 

 (Fig. llJr. ) Veiy slender, 

 ereet, branching, 4 to 7 inches 

 high, glabrous throughout ; 

 leaves entire, the basal and 

 lower ones elliptic to obovate- 

 spatulate, 1,0 to 1 or I14 inches 

 long, commonly contracted to 

 a petiole, the upper cauline 

 oblanceolate to linear ; pedun- 

 cles 2 to 3 inches long, erect 

 in anthesis, in fruit deflexcd 

 almost horizontally but the 

 capsule vertical or nearly so ; 

 sepals often reddish; petals white, elliptic to oblong, 2 to 5 lines long; stamens 

 12, unequal, in two series, the outer shorter ; filaments filiform or slightly dilated 

 upwards; capsule linear, twisted, i-> to 1 (rarely IVo) inches long. 



Sierra Nevada foothills from Shasta Co. to Amador Co. ; San Francisco Bay 

 region ; extending south in the Sierra foothills and to cismontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia in slightlv modified forms. 



Fig. 113. Meoonella linearis Jepson. 

 /), capsule, X 1. 



a. habit, X 1; 



