POPPY FAMILY 



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Locs. Little Chico Creek, E. M. Aitstin; Sweetwater 

 Creek, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee; Auburn, Bolander 

 4524; Berkeley Hills, Chandler 884; San Bruno Hills, 

 Jepson. The species is variable, like its allies and the 

 following varieties may be, with the further results of 

 field studies, shown to be mere forms: Var. octandra Jep- 

 son n. comb. Petals almost fan-shaped; stamens 8, the 

 4 outer shorter. Southern Sierra foothills (or their bor- 

 dering plains) from Merced Co. to Tulare Co.: Merced, 

 T. Brandegee; Kaweah, Hopping. Var. denticulata 

 Jepson n. comb. Leaves entire, sometimes denticulate; 

 stamens 6, in one set. Cismontane Southern California: 

 Santa Inez Mts. near Santa Barbara, T. Brandegee; Santa 

 Cruz Isl., T. Brandegee; Millards Canon, San Gabriel 

 Mts., Peirson 36; San Bernardino, Parish; Kamona, T. 

 Brandegee. 



Eefs. MECONELLA OREGANA Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 1:64 

 (1838), type loc. lower Willamette Valley, Nuttall; var. 

 CALIFORNICA Jepson. M. californica Torr. in Frem. Eep. 

 Sec. Exped. 312 (1845), type loc. American River, doubt- 

 less in the Sierra foothills, Fremont. Platystigma cali- 

 fornicum Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1:20 (1876); Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 206 (1901). M. colUna Greene, Pitt. 

 5:143 (1903), type loe. San Bruno Hills, Kellogg. Var. 

 OCTANDRA Jepson. M. octandra Greene l.c. 142, type loc. 

 Salt Creek, Kaweah River, Eastwood. Var. DENTICULATA 

 Jepson. M. denticulata Greene, BulL Cal. Acad. 2:59 

 (1886), type loe. Temecula Canon, n. of Mission San Luis 

 Rey, San Diego Co., Greene. Platystigma denticulatum 

 Greene, Bull. Torr. Club 13:218 (1886). M. kalcoethes 

 Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. 3:275 (1907), type loc. San Diego, 

 Orcutt. 



3. CANBYA Parry 



Minute glabrous annuals with the leaves 



MECONELLA OREGANA 



crowded in a dense basal tuft on the very shortly Fl | ut 1 t 14 ; ar . CALIFOBNICA Jepson. 

 branched stems. Leaves mostly alternate, linear, a> habit; b, capsule, x 1. 

 fleshy, entire. Flowers on axillary filiform pedi- 

 cels. Sepals 3. Petals 6, white, after anthesis withering and closing over the 

 capsule. Stamens 6 (or 5) to 9. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 nerve-like placentae. 



Style none. Stigmas 3, linear, radiate-recurved 

 and appressed to the subglobose ovary. Ovules 

 several. Species 2, California and Oregon. 

 (W. M. Canby, botanist bf Delaware.) 



1. C. Candida Parry. (Fig. 115.) Plants 

 1 inch high; leaves fleshy, 2 to 4 lines long; 

 petals roundish, 1 to 1% lines long. 



Sandy washes, Mohave Desert, 2000 to 3500 

 feet. Apr.-May. 



Locs. Coolgardie yucca mesa, Jepson 6703 ; Calico 

 Wash, ne. of Barstow, Jepson 5815; Blacks Ranch 

 near Fremont 's Peak, Hall Chandler 6842 ; Kramer, 

 K. Brandegee; near Cajon Pass, Jepson 6125; Lan- 

 caster, Davidson; Little Rock Creek, Peirson 2412. 



Refg. CANBYA CANDIDA Parry in Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Fig. 115. CANBYA CANDIDA Parry. Acad. 12:51, pL 1 (1876), type loc, towards head of 

 a, plant, X 1; b, flower, X 2. Mohave River, Palmer in 1876. 



