Fig. 123. EscHSCHOLTZiA CALiFORNHCA Cham. var. CROCKA Jepson. The floweriug branchlet a 

 represents the average size of the large bronze-gold corollas of tlio spring floweriug (Mar.- 

 Apr.); these flowers are borne on stout erect stems. The flowering Ijranchlet 6 wa-x taken 

 from the same root-c.ro\\Ti as a; it represents the average size of the straw-yellow corollas 

 of the summer and autumn flowering; such flowers are borne on slender diffuse stems, 

 c is a detail of a, showing the characteristic broad tonis rim of the spring flowering; d is 

 a detail of b, showing the narrow tonis rim of the summer flowering. Plants iu full Wgor 

 which produce a crop of large flowers in spring produce also from the same root-crowns a 

 regular crop of small summer flowers, a, b, c, d, XI; e, seed, X 12. 



