ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 221 
1. E. CALIFORNICA, Cham. in Nees Horæ Physic Berol, 73. t. 
15; Cham. & Schl. Linnæa, i. 554: Greene, Fl. Fr. 284. 
Perennial, glabrous, glaucescent, diffusely dichotomous, the 
branches commonly prostrate, forming a mat often a yard in 
__ Width : leaves small for,the plant and remote, ultimate segments 
oblong and spatulate-oblong, obtuse, the middle one of the 3 
broadest: calyx ovoid, or even round-ovoid, abruptly and obtusely 
short-pointed, about } inch long: corolla small for the plant, 
nearly rotate, seldom 14 inches broad, petals clear yellow from 
below the middle but with a well defined orange spot at base: 
stamens orange: torus-rim deflexed under the fruit and 
undulate: pods small, seldom 2 inches long: seeds spherical, 
strongly reticulate. , 
In this description matters of habit of the species, color of 
petals, etc., are from memory of the plant as I knew it intimate- 
ly during more than ten years of residence in and near San 
Francisco. The best specimens before me are four sheets in my 
own herbarium, collected by myself at about the original station 
on the outskirts of San Francisco, three of them taken at the 
end of May, 1895, well illustrating the near approach to dich- 
otomy which the plant always exhibits when grown to maturity, 
the fourth, a young specimen gathered in March, 1874, showing 
the beginning of its flowering by one or more almost scapiform 
peduncles arising from amid the tuft of early long-petioled 
foliage. 
This type species of the genus I now judge to be limited to 
the maritime hills, more or less sandy, of the San Francisco 
peninsula, Ican obtain no evidence of its ever having been 
under cultivation even in America much less in Europe; and all 
the so-called Æ. Californica of the various illustrated journals 
of botany or of horticulture represents some other species in 
every instance. It has been figured only by Chamisso, and 
in that case from dried specimens; and this plate in the 
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Prirronta, Vou. V. 
