168 PITTONIA. 
flowers which appeared upon the thrifty plant now flourishing 
in a shady corner of my garden, the two inner of the four 
petals were reduced to narrow ligulate organs little more than 
aline wide. In later flowers an opposite extreme is reached ; 
for these flowers are commonly hexapetalous, each of the 
earlier narrow petals having become replaced, first by a very 
- broad one, and then by two; with another intermediate stage 
to be noted, in which the flower is pentapetalous, this variable 
pair of inner peta!s being represented by a single broad one 
on one side, and two rather smaller ones on the opposite side. 
The interest of this remarkable plant, in view of its relation 
to the Californian Meconopsis, is intensified by yet another 
new diseovery which I may name 
‘ PAPAVER LEMMONL Near the preceding, but a larger 
and coarser plant, 1—3 feet high; corolla twice as large, 
2—3 inches broad, apparently of a deeper red, the base of 
the petals greén: capsule broader and merely obovate; 
stigmas 7—LO, their lower half sessile and radiant upon the 
summit of the capsule, upper half coherent one with another 
and forming a conical apiculation. 
. Hilly and mountainous region of San Luis Obispo 
County, California ; collected in 1887, by Mr. J. G. Lemmon: 
plant exaetly intermediate, in its stigmatie structure, between 
Papaver and Meconopsis ; and no botanist, with these three 
Californian plants before him, can defend the genus last 
hamed; so that our species must take the name 
^ PAPAVER M. pais heterophylla, Benth. 
Trans. Hort. Soc. 2 ser. : i. 408: Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 272: Brew. 
& Wats. Bot. Cal. i. 22. 
Even this plant, as it comes to us, through Mr. Lemmon’s 
hands, from San Luis Obispo County, exhibits an almost 
styleless pistil, the stigmas, although coherent among them- 
selves, resting almost sessile, in a globose knot, on top of the 
capsule, so that the transition, natural, and geographical, is 
almost as complete as can be, between our northern P. hetero- 
