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region in New Mexico and Texas, I cited Dr. Gray’s Eschscholtsia 
Douglasii var. parvula as a synonym; a wrong inference; for I now 
find the plants of the Rio Grande region thoroughly distinct 
from my Gila Valley type. 
The original specimens of Æ. Mexicana are in Herb. Calif. 
Acad. It will doubtless be found on both sides of the Mexican 
boundary, and the name will not be inappropriate. 
63. E. PARVULA, Ckl, Bot. Gaz., xxvi, 279. Æ. Doug/asit, var. 
parvula, Gray, Pl. Wright, ii. 10. Low annual, 6 to 10 inches 
high, with rather slender petioles and scapiform peduncles, and 
a soft and flaccid glabrous and glaucous foliage : leaves with 5 
or sometimes 7 divisions moderately divergent, mostly ternate, 
a few biternate, the ultimate lobes or segments oblong, the 
middle one of the 3 larger and spatulate-oblong, obtusish: 
peduncles not twice the length of the leaves: calyx less than } 
inch long, subconic-ovoid, with distinct slender apiculation: 
corolla nearly rotate, 14 inches wide, golden yellow: stamens 
many, the filaments long and linear, purple at summit: stigmas 
4, stoutish not very unequal: pods 3 inches long, slender; torus 
with coriaceous rim narrow but manifest, the inner margin 
obscure. 
Mountain districts along the Rio Grande from the Organ 
Mountains in New Mexico, through Texas and into Chihuahua. 
The most easterly species, so far as known ; though not the only 
one extending into Mexico. 
64. E. cYATHIFERA. Subacaulescent annual 6 or 8 inches 
high, the very short leafy branches and scapiform peduncles 
stout ; herbage glabrous, glaucescent: leaves rather large, cut 
into very many only slightly divergent linear segments, the 
ultimates very unequal, mostly spatulate-oblong, obtuse or 
acutish: calyx an inch long, almost conical, with yet a distinct 
and not short scarcely tapering apiculation: torus large, funnel- 
form, with a very wide and conspicuous rim, neither reflexed nor 
spreading horizontally, tending away from the tube at no strong 
