92 PAPAVERACE^. Eschscholtzia. 



++ ++ Seeds with thick gray coat and large deep pits. 



E. glyptosperma, Greene. Dwarf, wholly scapose : leaves mucli dissected into crowded 

 filiforin-liuear divisions : scapes a span high : petals very broad, hardly half inch long : seeds 

 globose, coarsely tuberculate-favose, the coriaceous meshes nearly as broad as the pits. — 

 Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 70. — S. E. California, on the Mohave Desert, Mrs. Curran. Prob- 

 ably also on eastern slope of San Jacinto Mountain, Parish (E. Parishii, Greene, 1. c. 183), 

 and S. Utah, Mrs. Thompson, and Bill Williams Fork, Biyelow (Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 64, under 

 E. Douglasii, var. teniiijhiia), but seeds not seen. 



++++++ Seed-coat strongly muricate-squamose : leaves with narrow and comparatively few 

 divisions. 



E. tenuifolia, Hook. Minutely hispidulous-pubescent below, or glabrous, scapose and 

 tufted from the slender root: divisions of the leaves seldom over 9 or 11, mostly narrow- 

 linear : scapes a span or more high : petals light yellow, at most half inch long : torus 

 turbinate: seeds oval, densely muricate with oblong obtuse flattened processes in about 12 

 longitudinal rows. — Bot. Mag. t. 4812, excl. syn. ; Greene, 1. c. 70, excl. syn. ; not Benth. 

 E. Douglasii, var. tenuifolia, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 64. E. Californica, \SiV. ca'spitosa,Bre-w. 

 & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 23, excl. syn.i — California, valley of the Sacramento and adjacent 

 foothills of the Sierra Nevada ; first coll. by Fremont. 



-i— -i— Petals quarter inch long or less, obovate, soon deciduous : seeds with reticulate 

 surface. 



E. minutiflora, Watson. Glabrous, leafy-stemmed and branching, a span to a foot high : 

 leaves thickish, small : peduncles mostly shorter than the slender (inch or two long) capsule : 

 petals a line or two long, broadly obovate. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 122; Brew. & Wats. 

 1. c. ; Greene, 1. c. E. Californica, var. hypecoides, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 14, excl. syn. 

 E. modesta, Greene, Pittouia, i. 169. — N. Nevada, S. Utah to W.Arizona and southern 

 borders of California; first coll. by Newberry in Arizona, by Watson in Nevada. 



E. rhombipetala, Greene. Sparsely scabro-hispidulous below or glabrate, depressed- 

 spreading, very leafy at base, a span or two high : peduncles stout, subscapose, hardly 

 exceeding the tufted leaves, mostly longer than the large 2 or 3 inch long capsules : petals 

 rhombic-obovate, a quarter inch long, fugacious. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 71. — Valley of 

 the San Joacpiiu and Sacramento, Mrs. Curran. 



Recently published species of doubtful affinity. 

 E.* Lemmoni, Greene. " Annual, 6 to 12 inches high, with numerous ascending branches 

 leafy below, hoary pubescent throughout, even to the capsules, with short spreading white 

 hairs ; leaves with elongated petioles ; peduncles stoutish, quadrangular, the earliest scapi- 

 forra ; torus urceolate, 3-4 lines long, nearly glabrous, constricted just below the narrow, 

 erect hyaline border ; calyptra ovate, long acuminate, very conspicuously hairy ; petals 

 orange-color, nearly or quite an inch long." — West Am. Sci. iii. 157 ; Fl. Francis. 287. — 

 " Fields near Cholame, San Luis Obispo Co., Mr. ^- Mrs. Lemmon." The character quoted 

 from the original description. 



Order IX. FUMARIACEiE. 



By a. Gray. 



Nearest Papaveracece, now more commonly combined with tluit order ; but 

 always with bland watery juice, and irregular dimerous flowers witli definite (6) 

 diadelphous stamens in a more or less closed corolla. Leaves compound, usually 

 much dissected, tender, alternate. Sepals 2, small and scale-lil^e. Petals 4 in 

 two pairs ; outer (lateral ones) with spreading tips, one or both spurred or saccate 

 at base : inner pair narrower, with callous-crested tips cohering over the enclosed 

 1 Add syn. E. ccespitosa, Greene, Fl. Francis. 287, not Bentli. 



