262 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



2. ESCHSCHOLZIA (ham. California poppy. 



Smooth, slender, more or less glaucous annuals with finely dissected leaves and 

 colorless sap; flowers bright yellow to orange, 5 cm. or less in diameter; sepals coherent 

 at the tip, caducous; stamens numerous; pod elongate-linear, 10-nerved. 



1. Eschscholzia parvula (A. Gray) Cockerell, Bot. Gaz. 26: 279. 1898. 



Eschscholzia douglasii parvula A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 10. 1853. 



Eschscholzia scapifera Fedde, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 4: 153. 1904. 



Type locality: "Among rocks, on mountains near El Paso." 



Range: Western Texas to Arizona, south into Mexico. 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Florida Mountains; Carrizalillo Mountains; near 

 White Water; Organ Mountains; Tortugas Mountain. Dry hills and mesas, in the 

 Upper Sonoran Zone. 



A beautiful little short-lived annual, appearing "among rocks along the mountain 

 foothills. It is well worth cultivation in gardens throughout the State, where it 

 would doubtless grow readily. 



3. PAP AVER L. Poppy. 



Annual or perennial herbs with a white juice; leaves various, pubescent or glabrous, 

 glaucous or bright green; petals mostly 4; sepals 2; stigmas united in a flat crown rest- 

 ing upon the summit of the ovary; fruit ovoid to globose, opening by pores under the 

 edge of the stigmas. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Low perennial, 15 cm. or less, hairy, not glaucous; leaves pinnately 



cleft; petals yellow 1. P. coloradense. 



Tall annual, 50 to 80 cm., glaucous, not hairy; leaves not pinnately 



cleft; petals white to red, never yellow 2. P. somniferum . 



1. Papaver coloradense Fedde, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 7: 256. 1909. 

 Papaver nudicaule coloradense Fedde, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 7: 256. 1909. 

 Type locality: Grays Peak, Colorado. 



Range: High peaks of Colorado and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Taos Mountains {Bailey 853). Arc tic -Alpine Zone. 



A rare plant of high peaks in the northern part of the State, coming into our range 

 from Colorado. It may be recognized by its small, bright yellow flowers, borne 

 singly on hairy, scapelike peduncles. 



2. Papaver somniferum L. Sp. PL 508. 1753. Common poppy. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae australioris ruderatis." 



New Mexico: Mesilla Valley. 



The opium poppy has escaped from cultivation at several places in the Mesilla 

 Valley and persists from year to year. 



55. FUMARIACEAE. Fumitory Family. 



1. CAPNOIDES Adams. 



Short-lived perennial or biennial herbs with watery juice, compound, usually 

 finely dissected leaves, and racemose yellow or pink flowers; sepals 2, small; corolla 

 irregular, one of the outer pair of petals spurred at the base; stamens 6, in 2 groups 

 opposite the outer petals; capsule 2-valved, linear-oblong; seeds lenticular, shining, 

 black. 



