POPPY FAMILY 



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or divided into 3 to 9 cuneate-oblong to lanceolate divisions or leaflets, these 

 sparingly dentate or the terminal one 3-cleft, the margins and rachis often 

 sparsely spinulose-ciliate ; flowers 

 short-peduncled, terminal, not droop- 

 ing in bud, delicately fragrant, last- 

 ing a few days ; calyx glabrous, some- 

 what beaked; corolla 3 to 5 inches 

 broad; capsule ovate to oblong, 11/2 

 inches long, strigose-hispid, the 7 to 

 12 valves opening from the summit 

 downward; seeds slightly incurved 

 with dull roughish coat. 



Washes and canon beds, 1000 to 

 2500 feet, cismontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia from Santa Barbara Co. to 

 San Diego -Co. Lower California. 

 May-June. 



Biol. Note. This species propagates by 

 suckers and thus forms dense stools or heavy 

 clumps. It is often cultivated as an orna- 

 mental plant and does well in warm valleys 

 behind an outer coast ridge, as in the Santa 

 Clara Valley at Los Altos where it is begin- 

 ning to be spontaneous in orchards and may 

 require special control. 



Locs. Temeseal Wash, Jepson 1571 ; 

 Corona, Hall 568; Santa Ana Canon near 

 Anaheim, Parish; San Diego, Mary Spencer 

 139. Var. trichocalyx Jepson n. comb. 

 Calyx setose, beakless or nearly so. Range 

 of the species. 



Refs. EOMNEYA COULTEBI Harv. ; Hook. 

 Lond. Jour. Bot. 4:75, t. 3 (1845), type 

 from Cal., Coulter. Var. TRICHOCALYX Jep- 

 son. E. trichocalyx Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. 



ser. 3, 1:133 

 cuH. plants. 



(1898), based primarily on 



Fig. 119. ROMNEYA COULTER: Harv. a, flower; 

 b, bud, X %. 



8. DENDROMECON Benth. 



Glabrous evergreen shrub with alternate entire coriaceous leaves and golden 

 yellow flowers. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens numerous, with short filiform 

 filaments and linear anthers. Style short, bearing 2 oblong stigmas. Capsule 

 linear, curved, its two valves separating tardily or incompletely from the 2 

 thread-like placentae. Seeds pitted, provided with a caruncle. Species 1. 

 (Greek dendron, tree, and mecon, poppy.) 



1. D. rigida Benth. BUSH POPPY. (Fig. 120.) Stems few to many from 

 the base, 2 to 4 (or 8) feet high, the main stem bark shreddy; branches whitish ; 

 leaves yellowish green, oblong- to linear-lanceolate, reticulate, minutely denticu- 

 late, mucronate, 1 to 3y 2 inches long, borne on very short petioles which, by a 

 twist, bring the blade vertical ; flowers on peduncles 1 to 3 inches long ; corolla 

 1 to 2y 2 inches in diameter ; capsule 2 to 4 inches long. 



Dry slopes and ridges at middle altitudes (1000 to 3000 feet) : Coast Ranges; 

 Sierra Nevada, north to Shasta Co. and southward to cismontane Southern Cali- 

 fornia. May-June. 



Ecol. Note. The tap root is very stout, fleshy and brittle, and descends vertically for at 

 least 3 to 5 feet. Regeneration takes place from the root crown, and there may be budding 

 also from the roots, especially in areas of burned chaparral. A shrub in the Cajon Pass 

 (Jepson 6110) showed flowers with 5 petals. 



