. 290 ESCHSCHOLTZIA CALIFORNICA. 
Here these ridges diverge, and become blended with the incipient 
swellings of that portion of the tissue which ultimately becomes stig- 
matie tissue, and runs along the entire margin of the pouch-shaped 
pistil. There is therefore, strictly speaking, a three-lobed stigma 
crowning each carpel, of which one lobe (S) is at the apex terminating 
the mid-rib, and the others (t) immediately above the upper extremities 
of their combined margins. The contiguous lobes (t) of the combined 
earpels become so intimately united, that they usually develope as simple 
stigmata, which appear like prolongations of the placentz. They are, 
however, compound ; and thus are analogous in position and condition 
to the stigmatic lobes or rays in Meconopsis, Papaver, &c. This com- 
pound character of these smaller stigmata may be traced, even where 
the union of the two lobes is complete, by a faintly depressed line run- 
ning longitudinally down their inner surface. As the pistil continues 
to grow, its orifice becomes choked with stigmatic tissue; whilst the 
stigmatic lobes, (both S and t) are further developed into long cylin- 
drie branches. The connection between each of the two longest 
branches (the presumed abortive stigmata of Lindley) and the two 
placentze, is well marked by the deep orange tissue that descends imme- 
diately from its base, separating into two streams, one of which pro- 
ceeds to each placenta in the ordinary manner. Some late flowers of 
diminutive size were entirely without the two smaller branches of the 
stigmata ; and then the pistil presented the appearance of bearing two 
stigmata only, alternating with the placente ! (Fig. 10.) In the pecu- 
liarly constructed specimens, to which I alluded in the commencement of 
this paper, it has become sufliciently evident that their apparently nume- 
rous stigmata were nothing more than so many branches or extensions 
from a common mass of stigmatic tissue. I have represented two of 
these modifications as they would appear when flattened out,—the eye 
looking down vertically upon them (Fig. 11 and 12.) The line of de- 
marcation between the outer or under, and the upper or inner, surfaces 
of the carpels, is distinctly marked by the green tint of the former and 
the orange eolour assumed by those portions of the latter which have 
passed to the condition of stigmatietissue. The four elongated lobes or 
ches, usually considered to be distinct stigmata, consist mainly of 
Miswatie tissue only ; though the green tissue of the outer.surface does 
extend (see Fig. 10) a little way up them, and stretches round their 
base, connecting one with the other, in the manner shewn Fig. 11. 
