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PAPAVERACEAE 



Refs. — ESCHSCHOLTZIA i.EMMONii Greene, W. Am. Sei. 3:157 (1887), tvpe loe. Cholanie, 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Lemmmi in 1887; Fedile in Engler, Pflzr. 199, fig. 24^ (1909). Var. 

 laxa Greene, Pitt. 5:289 (1905), type loe. Alcalde, Fresno Co., Ea-stwood, May 10, 189.3. Var. 

 euspidata Greene I.e. type loe. San Luis Obispo, Jared in 1893. E. exim.ia Greene I.e. 273, based 

 on Zapato, Fresno Co., T. Braiidcgcc. Mar. 27, 1893, and Alcalde, T. Brandegcc. Mar. 30, 1893. 

 E. alciconiis Greene I.e. 273, type loe. Alcalde, T. Brandegee in 1891; Fedde I.e. 190, fig. 24'. 

 E. delitescent Fedde I.e. 200 "(1909). tvpe loe. Alcalde, T. Brandegee in 1891. E. ureeolata 

 East^v. BuU. Torr. Club 30:488 (1903), "type loe. hills betw. Cuyama Valley and Carrizo Plains. 

 Var. ASPRELLA Jepson. E. asprcUa Greene I.e. 272, type loe. San Miguelito Raneho, Monterey 

 Co., Eastu-ood. May, 1897; Fedde I.e., 189, fig. 2i\ 



5. E. lobbii Greene. (Fig. 124.) Scapose, 4 to 8 (or 11) inches high, the 

 leaves in a basal or sub-basal tuft with comparatively few linear or linear- 

 lanceolate to almost filiform divisions; petals light yellow, 3 to 6 lines long; seeds 

 strongly murieate with flattened processes, i,e., bur-like. 

 Sterile gravelly or clay foothills and rolling valley 

 plains, 1000 to '^OO'o ft. : Sierra Nevada foothills; foothills 

 of inner North Coa.st Ranges and the Sacramento Valley. 

 Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. — Sacramento Valley: *Reddlng, Nutting, M. S. Baker 4; 

 Manzanita Flat bet\v. South Fork Cottomvood Creek and Dibble 

 Greek, Tehama Co., Jepson; CTiie.o, R. M. Austin 93; 'College City, 

 Colusa Co., Alice King: *Marysville Buttes, Heller 7575; * Willow- 

 Branch, Sutter Co., Jepson; Violet sta., Solano Co., Jepson; Peace- 

 ful Glen Valley, nw. Solano Co., Jepson. Sierra Nevada foothills: 

 Simpson Raneh, Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee 

 32e (processes on seeds farther apart and less pronounced) ; 

 *Layne Ranch near Pilot Hill, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee 3]e; 

 Folsom, E. Brandegee ; Milton, Calaveras Co., Davy 1223; Table 

 Mt., near Sonora, Jepson 6424; Linden, San Joaquin Co., GM?uit- 

 son; Grapevine Spr., e. of Visalia, Wooisey ; Lemon Cove, Hop- 

 ping; Kaweah, Hopping 2111; Middle Tule River, Furpus 5005 

 {E. pnlchella Greene ace. Fedde in Eugler, Pflzr. 4'°':201). 



Refs. — ESCHSCHOLTZIA LOBBH Greene, Pitt. 5:290 (1905), type 

 loe. nw. Solano Co., Jepson; Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4'":200, fig. 

 24"' (1909). E. tenuifolia Hook. Hot. Mag. t. 4812 (1854), type 

 an English garden plant (Veltch), undoubtedly from Cal. seed 

 eolleeted by Lobb; not E. tenuifolia Benth. E. gramiiiea Fedde, 

 Rep. Nov. Sp. 2:146 (1906), type loe. Table Mt., Plumas Co., 

 M. E. P. Ames in 1867 f doubtfully placed here, no spms. seen). 

 E. pulcliella Greene I.e. 291, tvpe loe. lowest foothills of n. Sierra 

 Nevada; Fedde in Engler, Pilzr. 4">'.201, 24''- ". E. unguioulata 

 Greene I.e. 292, type loe. Madera, Buckminster. 



Fig. 124. ESCHSCHOLTZIA 



LOBBII Greene, a, habit, 

 X % ; 6, seed, 'X 5. 



6. E. caespitosa Benth. Stems usually scapose, several to many from a tuft 

 of basal leaves, 3 to 9 inches high, far exceeding the leaves; herbage glaucous, 

 glabrous or below somewhat hispidulous ; leaves cut into rather numerous narrow 

 lobes; torus turbinate to oblong-turbinate : petals pure yellow, y^ to 1 inch long; 

 seeds longer than broad, abruptly acute, lightly reticulate or almost smooth. 



South Coast Ranges, south to Los Angeles Co. Apr.-JIay. 



Locs. — Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., C. F. Baker 4180; Mono Creek, Santa Barbara, Hall 

 7821; Santa Inez Mts., T. Brandegee. 



Var. rhombipetala Jepson n. eomb. Similar in habit but the scapes hardly exceeding the 

 leaves ; torus usually about twice as long as broad ; petals fugacious ; seeds reticulate-pitted. — • 

 Foothills and plains at east base of the Mt. Diablo Range (Byron, Greene). 



Var. hypecoides Gray. Stems slender, leafy, somewhat branched, 3 to 12 (or 18) inches 

 high; petals ^i- to 1 inch long; seeds spherical or slightly elongate. — Fertile hillslopes: Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Kern Co. to Butte Co., about 1200 to 2500 ft. ; Coast Ranges from 

 Trinity Co. to Monterey Co., 100 to 2000 ft. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada : Kaweah, Hopping 81 ; Grapevine Sprs., e. of Visalia, Woolsey, 

 Mar. 20, 1898; Dunlap, Fresno Co., Jepson 2761; ridge n. of Pinehurst, Fresno Co., NewUm 

 200 (fls. very deep orange) ; Knights Ferry, Bancroft; Duck Bar, Tuolumne River, A. L. Grant 

 714; Stanislaus River road near Parrott's Ferry, A. L. Grant; Jackson, Amador Co., Hansen 

 81; *Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee 25e, 26e; *Folsom to Plaeerville near 



