POPPY FAMILY 



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or divided into 3 to 9 cimeate-oblong to lanceolate divisions or leaflets, these 

 sparingly dentate or tlie terminal one 3-cleft, the margins and raehis often 

 sparsely spinulose-eiliate; flowers 



short-peduncled, tenninal, not droop- 

 ing in bud, delicately fragrant, last- 

 ing a few days ; calyx glabrous, some- 

 what beaked ; corolla 3 to 5 inches 

 broad ; capsule ovate to oblong, II/2 

 inches long, strigose-hispid, the 7 to 

 12 valves opening from the summit 

 downward ; seeds slightly incurved 

 witli dull roughish coat. 



Washes and canon beds, 1000 to 

 2500 feet, cismontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia from Santa Barbara Co. to 

 San Diego Co. Lower California. 

 May-June. 



Biol. Note. — Tliis species propagates by 

 suckers and thus forms dense stools or heavy 

 clumps. It is often cultivated as an orna- 

 mental plant and does well in warm valleys 

 beliiud an outer coast ridge, as in the Santa 

 Clara Valley at Los Altos where it is begin- 

 ning to be spontaneous in orchards and may 

 require special control. 



Locs. — Temescal Wash, Jepson 1571; 

 Corona, Eall 568; Santa Ana Caiion near 

 Anaheim, Parisli : !San Uiego, Mari/ Spencer 

 139. Var. trichocaJyx Jepson n. comb. 

 Calyx setose, beakless or nearly so. — Range 

 of the species. 



Refs. — EOiMKEYA COULTER! Harv. ; Hook. 

 Lond. Jour. Bot. 4:75, t. 3 (1845), type 

 from Cal., Coulter. Var. trichocaltx Jep- 

 son. R. trichocalijx Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad, 

 ser. 3, 1:133 (1898), based primarily on 

 cult, plants. 



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Fig. 119. 

 b, bud, 



ROMNEYA cotu.TEKi Harv. II, flower; 

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S. DENDROMECON Benth. 



Glabrous evergreen shrub with alternate entire coriaceous leaves and golden 

 yellow flowers. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens numerous, with short filiform 

 filaments and linear anthers. Style short, bearing 2 oblong stigmas. Capsule 

 linear, curved, its two valves separating tardily or incompletely from the 2 

 thread-like placentae. Seeds pitted, provided with a caruncle. — Species 1. 

 (Greek dendron. tree, ajid mecon, poppy.) 



1. D. rigida Benth. Bush Poppy. (Fig. 120.) Stems few to many from 

 the base, 2 to 4 (or 8) feet liigh, the main stem bark shreddy; branches wliitish ; 

 leaves yellowish green, oblong- to linear-lanceolate, reticulate, minutelj- denticu- 

 late, mucronate, 1 to 31/2 inches long, borne on very short petioles which, by a 

 twist, bring the blade vertical; flowers on peduncles 1 to 3 inches long; corolla 

 1 to 21/0 inches in diameter; capsule 2 to 4 inches long. 



Diy slo])es and ridges at middle altitudes (1000 to 3000 feet) : Coast Ranges; 

 Sierra Nevada, nortli to Shasta Co. and soutliward to ci.smontane Soutlu'rn Cali- 

 fornia. May-June. 



Eeol. Note. — The tap root is very stout, fleshy ami Ijrittlo, and descends vertically for at 

 least 3 to 5 feet. Regeneration takes place from the root crown, and there may be budding 

 al.so from the roots, especially in arejLs of burned chaparral. A shrub in the Cajon Pass 

 {Jepson 6110) showed flowers witli 5 petals. 



