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where it abounds, and is altogether the most gorgeous of 
Eschscholtzias. It is not a large plant, though displaying 
almost the largest corollas. Neither is it a long enduring 
perennial ; rather, often merely biennial ; nor does it present, as 
do most of the species, at first a single flower on a scapiform 
peduncle. Itis obviously branched at first flowering, though 
never branching freely. 
Outside the geographical limits above noted are plants in 
plenty which approach it more or less closely in habit, and in 
size and color of corolla. Some of the extremes of these are 
here named and described as varieties. The one denominated 
longissima I know only as in Herb. Calif. Acad. said to have 
been collected somewhere in Colusa Co., by Mr. Brandegee, in 
April, 1889. The variety afiifolia is imperfectly known to me 
by two sheets in U. S. Herb. obtained by Mr. Jepson at Vaca- 
ville, March, 1892. Each specimen has a solitary flower, but no 
well grown buds eyen. Its locality is extralimital for real Æ. 
crocea, and I think it may be found worthy of specific rank 
when better known. 
30. E. MACRANTHA, Perennial, 1 to 2 feet high, with stout 
upright branches but delicately dissected foliage, the segments 
long, almost parallel, cuneate-linear, acutish ; plant glabrous, 
glaucescent or glaucous, never much branched, bearing few long- 
peduncled very large flowers: calyx very thin and diaphanous, 
somewhat ovate or oblong-conical, acuminate rather than abruptly 
apiculate, the whole 14 or 14 inches lon g, and apt to be persistent 
under the open corolla, on one side: corolla apparently deep yel- 
low or almost orange, the petals 14 to 3 inches long, the largest 
flowers with an expansion of 4 or 5 inches: torus-rim evident, 
but narrow and inconspicuous compared with that of other 
large-flowered species. 
There are two sheets of this before me, one in my own herba- 
rium from near Visalia, Calf., by Dr. T. J. Patterson, March, 
1886. In this the calyx persists like an empty horn or spur, at 
full flowering. The other specimen, with corolla in the dried 
