DENDROMECON. 308 
D. letophyila, though not of the Coast Range at all, but of 
the remoter inland range, is next of kin to the strictly insular 
D, flexilis; and there is no coastal Dendromecon that makes 
any near approach to either; not even the D. saligna of the 
seaboard i in San Diego Co., for that has the hard rigid strongly 
reticulated foliage of the Æ. rigida group, 
12. D. HERBACEA. Apparently not even suffrutescent, the 
long flexible and sparsely leafy stems 14 feet high from a ligne- 
ous crown, parted at summit into several long weak peduncles, 
the whole very pale and glaucous: leaves elliptic-lanceolate, very 
acute, those next the base of the stem smaller, tapering to a 
distinct and not short petiole, the others subsessile, ascending, 
14 to 3 inches long, thinnish but beautifully reticulate, only the 
midvein remaining unbroken: calyx subglobose inclining to 
pyriform : corolla golden-yellow, less than an inch wide. 
Foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada, near Pit River pide 
Shasta Co., May, 1897, H. E. Brown; type in U. S. Her 
'Fhis is the most northerly Dendromecon of which I find ae. 
and I think not accidentally but naturally and characteristically 
herbaceous ; there being no shrubby species to which I can refer 
this foliage. 
13. D. casta. Shrub somewhat fastigiate, densely leafy, 
the leaves very glaucous, lanceolate-elliptic, very erect, 14 to 
24 inches long, obtusish, mucronate, the margin finely crisped 
in the young, entire in the mature, only the midvein promi- 
nent, two lateral nerves from the base either continuous to the 
apex, or vanishing, a few feather veins even more obscure, retic- 
ulation obsolete : peduncles little exceeding the leaves: corollas 
half-inch wide. 
Mandeville Cañon, in the Sierra Santa ae Los Angeles 
Co., Calif., 8 April, 1890, H. E. Hasse; in U. S. Herb. An 
excellently marked species, practically of the cums seaboard, 
more suggestive of D. densifolia of Santa Rosa Island than 
of any other ; yet most distinct; the leaves somew hat fewer, of 
another outline, more veiny, more firm of texture, and with 
_ almost no reticulation. 
