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by Douglas, was the first member of the genus to appear in the 
gardens of Europe, where for a long time it was generally 
thought of as the same plant originally described by Chamisso 
as Æ. Californica. It was several times figured in illustrated 
Works under that name, and even the seeds of it were distributed 
by gardeners and seedsmen, far and wide, as they still in our day 
continue to be distributed under that mistaken appellation. 
Even in Californian flower gardens one may see beds of Esch- 
scholtzia showing corollas white, cream-color, pink, even rose- 
purple and other red shades, the seeds of which were all im- 
ported from Europe, the plants for the most part showing the 
characters of Æ. Doug/asit, though perhaps now and then a 
trace of admixture with Æ. crocea, this also very early intro- 
duced into Europe, but as I suppose, now lost, or mixed with 
others by hybridization. 
Among garden specimens seen in herbaria, none is more in- 
teresting than a sheet in the Canadian Geol. Survey of plants 
ASOR from a garden in Belleville, Ontario, almost forty years 
since, by Mr. John Macoun. In all probability these plants were 
from seeds grown in England, and that within thirty years after 
the introduction of the species into that country by Douglas. 
They match native Oregonian speciinens as perfectly as one 
could wish. 
Concerning a specimen from far down on the Mexican terri- 
tory of Lower California, collected by Mr. Brandegee at San Pablo 
in 1889 and preserved in Herb. Calif. Acad., it need only be said 
that the manner of its introduction there, whether by flower 
garden seeds, or accident in seeds of grain or hay from Oregon, 
is altogether unknown. Mr. Brandegee reports that the plants 
stew along an irrigating ditch. 
14 E. copumprana. Perennial, glaucous, not quite glab- 
Tous, the dilated bases of the petioles commonly scabrous-edged, 
the decumbent stems a foot or two long, branching and leafy : 
Segments of basal and early leaves long, narrowly linear acute, 
