ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 289 
Remarkably large and large-flowered plant for one of this group 
known only from the Santa Lucia Mountains, California. 
107. E. RHOMBIPETALA. Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 71; 
Fi. Fr. 287. Subacaulescent annual a few inches high, copiously 
leafy, glaucous and crystalline-scabrous throughout: blades 
of the long-petioled leaves small and compact, the segments 
mostly oblong, acutish, not notably divergent: corolla hardly 
2 an inch wide, cruciform, the petals rhombic-ovate, fugacious : 
pods as Jong as the leaves and peduncles, usually 3 or 4 inches: 
_ seeds large, very regularly and definitely fayose-reticulate. 
= Low and wholly inconspicuous grain-field species, common 
from Colusa Co. far southward along the foothills of the inner 
_ Coast Range and plains adjacent ; the flowers seldom seen, the 
petals falling before noon. 
108. E. LEMMONII, Greene, West. Am. Sci. iii. 1575 FI. Fr. 
287. Subacaulescent annual 6 or 8 inches high, with many early 
_ peduncles scapiform and little exceeding the leaves, obscurely 
quadrangular; branches, petioles and peduncles papillose-hirsute, 
- Jeaf-segments scarcely so, torus glabrous, but calyx hoary-sub- 
- tomentose, as also the growing ovaries after flowering: calyx 
thin under the hoariness, ovate-lanceolate, the distinction be- 
tween the ovate body and the equally long beak-like apiculation 
e not pronounced, the whole ł inch long; torus tubular and 
long, a little constricted under the delicate margin: corolla an 
inch or more in breadth, deep yellow: stigmas 4, very unequal : 
pod and seeds unknown. 
= Ver. LAXA. Loosely branched, only the one earliest peduncle 
 scapiform ; pubescence both short and scanty, only a trace of it 
on the pods and the calyx not hoary, this narrowly ovate-coni- 
eal; torus not constricted at top, inclining from tubular to 
- funnelform: pod 2 inches long ; seed not seen. 
= Var. cusprpata. Quite as nearly acaulescent as the type, 
- stouter, much less pubescent ; terminal leaf-segment broad and 
