Eschscholtzia. PAPAVERACEvE. 91 



E.) Douc/lasii, & Californica, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 664; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 319. 



Oregon aud through the whole length of California, most common along the coast, where 

 also most perennial and semperflorent. The var. Doiujlasii is a form with narrower torus- 

 rim, and pure yellow corolla. First coll. by Menzies, later by Chumisso & Eschscholtz. 



? E.* ambigua, Gkeene. Annual, decumbent, glaucous and scabrous-puberulent through- 

 out : otherwise scarcely distinguishable from forms of the preceding. — Fl. Francis. 286 • 

 Man. Bay-Reg. 11. — Central California near the coast, San Luis Obispo, Mr. <^' Mrs. 

 Lemmon, Mt. Diablo, ace. to Greene, and (?) at Castroville, Brandegee. 



E.* maritiraa, Grkene. Perennial, densely cinereous-puberulent : stems "prostrate," very 

 leafy : cauline leaves rather small, with short crowded segments : calyptra of the bud short- 

 oblong, half inch in length, abruptly narrowed to a blunt apex : petals three fourths inch 

 long, " lemon-yellow with a rhomboidal spot of orange at base : " pod an inch and a half 

 in length ; seeds nearly smooth. — Pittouia, i. 60. — Abundant on clayey slopes near the 

 sea, San Miguel Island, California, Greene. 



E. peninsularis, Greene. Winter annual (or sometimes perennial?), tufted and many- 

 stemmed from the tap-root, at first scapose, a span or two high: petals flabelliform or 

 broadly cuneate, golden yellow, 5 to 8 lines long ; expanded rim of the torus conspicuous : 

 seeds less favose-reticulated. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 68, 18.3. — Common in S. California, 

 from San Bernardino Co. to San Diego, &c.. Coulter, Parish, Orcutt, &c. ; also as far north 

 as upper part of Salinas Valley, Brewer. (Lower Calif.) 



# * Dilated torus cyathiform or tubular-campanulate, destitute of expanded rim or border, 

 although the edge sometimes becomes sphacelate and a little recurved in age, a hyaline 

 internal edge (within the insertion of the calyx) commonly a little projecting : annuals, 

 mostly low or slender. 



•f— Petals from one third to two thirds or rarely an inch long, broadly cuneate, lasting more 

 than one day. 



++ Seeds superficially reticulated or almost smooth. 

 E. ramosa, Greene. Glaucous and glabrous, with rigid erect stems branching above, very 

 leafy to the top ; leaves much dissected into narrow linear and divaricate divisions and 

 lobes ; upper usually surpassing the short-peduncles : petals quarter to half inch long, light 

 yellow (or orange in drying): torus turbinate. — Bull. Torr. Club, xiii. 217. E.elegans, 

 var. ramosa, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 182. E. Californica, var. hypecoides, Wats. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 112 (form with smaller flowers). — Santa Cruz Island off Santa Barbara, 

 California, Greene, San Clemente, Nevin & Lyon. (Lower Califoruian islands, Streets, 

 Palmer, Greene.) 



E. CSespitosa, Benth. Glaucous, sparsely hispidulous below when young, or else quite 

 glabrous, commonly leafy only at base, and the leaves with narrow- or cuneate-linear 

 ascending divisions and lobes : peduncles elongated : earlier ones scapiform, a span or two 

 long; later ones from more or less leafy stems : petals pure yellow, half inch to inch long : 

 torus turbinate to oblong-turbinate. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 272; E. ccespitosa & 

 E. tenui folia, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. ser. 2, i. 408, therefore Chryscis ccvspitosa & C. teniti- 

 folia, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 63, 64. E. Californica, var. hypecoides, Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, 

 i. 23. E. Douglasii, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 64. E. Austince, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci. i. 69. — Common throughout California, especially northward and westward. 



Var. hypecoides. Gray, 1. c. Leafy stemmed, slender (a span to a foot high), witli 

 coarser lobes to the leaves, and petals half inch long or less. — E. hi/pcr</ides, Benth. 1. c. 

 Chryseis hypecoides, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 64. — W. California,^ Coulter, Douglas, &c. No seeds 

 seen : torus usually narrow. 



E. Mexicana, Greene. Wholly glabrous, glaucous, low and scapose or with later leafy 

 branches : leaves of thick and firm texture and rather coarsely and compactly dissected : 

 peduncles 2 to 10 inches long: petals orange-yellow, very broad, half inch to almost inch 

 long: torus turbinate or campanulate. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 69; Gray, 1. c. E. 

 Dourjlasii, var. parvula. Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 10. — Plains of Arizona, S. Utah, and New 

 Mexico,^ Bigelow, Thurher, Neicherry, Janvier, ]\Irs. Thompson, Rusby, &c. (Adj. Mex. below 

 El Paso, Wright, Guadalupe Island, Lower Calif., E. elegans, Greene?) 



1 Northward to Oregon, ffowell. '^ San Bernardino Co., Calif,, Parish. 



