ESCHSCHOLTZIA. z 205 
REVISION OF ESCHSCHOLTZIA, 
Of early discovery among Northwest American plant types, 
this genus was late in gaining a name “nd definition. Menzies, 
the botanist of Vancouver’s voyage, is said to have gathered, as 
early as the year 1792, specimens of it which were afterwards 
distributed to several herbaria as representing a new genus 
perhaps allied to Chelidonium; but no name was assigned the 
type until eighteen years later when Chamisso, botanist to 
Kotzebue’s voyage, himself having collected at San Francisco in 
1816 that which now stands as the type of the genus, published 
it at Berlin, under the name of Zschscholizia, as a new generic 
member of the Papaveracex. This was in the year 1820, up to 
which time only dried specimens of these plants had been 
seen in Europe. In 1830 Douglas, exploring the valley of the 
Willamette, in the interior of Oregon, discovered an Eschscholt- 
zia there which he supposed to be Chamisso’s Æ. Californi¢a 
and sent seeds of it to England. This has long been known as 
E. Dougiasii, and is in cultivation almost everywhere, and 
under many garden varieties, some of which are doubtless of 
hybrid origin. Subsequently the same collector, from several 
parts of California, sent seeds of various Eschscholtzias, as well 
as dried specimens, to his English correspondents and patrons, 
and from these specimens Bentham in 1835 published four new 
species which, added to the original one, raised the number to 
five; this author still supposing that Douglas’ plant from the 
Willamette was the same asthat of Chamisso from the sea coast 
at San Francisco, an error which the British botanists among 
themselves discovered and corrected somewhat later, thus giving 
recognition to Æ. Doug/asit-as the sixth member of the genus, 
to which, before 1840 a seventh, Æ. compacta, had been added. 
Up to that time, despite the fact that Zschscholisia was an 
Prrronta, Vol. V. Pages 205-808. Issued June 10, 1905. 
