208 PITTONIA. 
ing apart; and before noon of the day it was observed that all 
the petals had fallen, and the observer had to wait until the 
following morning to see the corollas of this plant again. The 
Other specific marks were several and pronounced; and early 
in the following winter I completed a diagnosis of the species; 
not, however, without having studied critically all the goodly 
amount of Eschscholizia material at that time extant in the her- 
barium of the California Academy of Sciences. The outcome 
of this study was a paper published soon after in the Academy 
Bulletin, in which recognition was given to eight species, of 
which five were new. In another article issued in the same 
volume a few months later two other species were added, these 
raising the whole number of Eschscholtzias to ten. Of these, 
seven were mine and proposed as new; only one of the six or 
seven that had been early published by English authorities 
obtaining recognition ; this fault of the paper being due to the 
implicit faith I then had in the approximate infallibility of Asa 
Gray who had pronounced against the validity of those species, 
and whose pronouncement, thus believed in, kept me from the 
investigation of them; and so I read with humiliation now, 00 
page 68 of that Bulletin, my own saying about such excellent 
types as I now know Æ. crocea and E. Douglasti to be, that they . 
do not seem to deserve even varietal names. 
Other crudities in this my earliest monographic effort are now 
to me, after the lapse of twenty years, so apparent that I never 
refer to the document unless obliged to do so. Nevertheless, 
and despite its failings, fairly considered, it must seem to have 
been predestined to mark strongly an epoch in the history of 
the genus. Every paragraph of it is replete with the statement 
of important facts never before made known, and the diagno- 
ses of the new species in that paper are the first diagnoses of 
Eschscholtzias printed, after Chamisso’s original of Æ. Califor- 
nica, that appear to have answered the purposes of diagnosis by 
compelling, as it were, the recognition of the species, and that 
even in quarters where there had been, at the time of their first 
appearing, an outspoken prejudgment against them.’ 
‘American Journal of Science for 1885, p. 321. 
