NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 167 
Engelm. "Three to five feet high, glabrous except the younger 
parts and the lower face of the leaves, which bear a sparse 
pubescence of short minutely gland-tipped pairs: sepals 5, 
lanceolate, herbaceous and deep green, persistent. 
Common in the Oakland Hills, and the inner Coast Range 
of Californian mountains generally (T. polycarpum taking its 
place in the outer or seaward range of mountains), flowering 
in April or early May; fruiting in June. 
A careful attention to the difference in the pubescence 
would alone seem to require that plant be separated specific- 
ally from the true T. Fendleri of the Mexican region. In 
that species there is no real pubescence; but the lower face 
of the leaves is covered with two distinct kinds of granulation, 
a coarser and scattered somewhat papillose sort, and under 
that a minute and very dense coating of a similar nature. 
But the Mexican and New Mexican plant has broad membra- 
nous caducous sepals, another important character which 
Professor Trelease, in his admirable and scholarly monograph, 
appears also to have overlooked. There are, in truth, ex- 
tremely few phanerogamous species which are common to the 
two regions so widely different in soil and climate, as New 
Mexico and the coast of middle California; and it is worth 
while to call attention to this, that T. Fendleri is an autumnal 
plant (flowering in August and fruiting in September and 
October), T. platycarpum vernal. These combined marks of 
a different constitution, now indicated, ought to outweigh the 
fact that, in mere fruit characters, the two species are much 
alike, 
PAPAVER CALIFORNICUM, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 313.— 
The color of the flowers, in this highly interesting American 
Poppy, is not quite correctly given in the place cited, the 
Observations having been made upon dried specimens. The 
petals are not “saffron-colored with a citrine eye,” but, of a 
light brick-red, the spot at the base being green, arched with 
à narrow circle of rose-red. As regards the number of its 
petals the species is also somewhat peculiar. In the earliest 
