570 PAPAVERACEAE 



The various lines of variation which we have discussed culminate in a few cases in strongly 

 marked forms which for the sake of convenience are here described as if definite varieties 

 although they represent only termini. 



Var. crocea Jepson n. comb. (Figs. 121, 122, 123.) In its most marked form this variety 

 passes normally through two seasonal flowering stages, (a) Vernal stage: stems commonly 

 many from the crown of a thick deep-seated root, mostly stiffly erect, 1 to 1% (or 2) feet high; 

 herbage glaucous; stems leafy, or, in the ante-flowering stage, leaves in a basal tuft; flowers 

 1 or mostly iy 2 to 2*4 inches long; buds 8 to 18 lines long, long-pointed; torus rim 1 to 2 

 lines broad; petals a deep rich orange; pods 2 to 3 inches long. (6) Aestival stage: stems 

 fewer, diffuse, spreading or decumbent, % to 1 (or 1%) feet long, more or less branched, 

 leafy; flowers % to % (or 1) inch long; buds 2 to 3 lines long, apieulate; torus rim % to % 

 line broad; petals pale or straw-yellow; pods 1 to 1% inches long. Interior valleys, particu- 

 larly the Sacramento and San Joaquin, reaching its highest development and most marked 

 differentiation into two distinct flowering stages, vernal and aestival, when in rich alluvial 

 loams. The above diagnosis of these two flowering stages is based primarily upon marked 

 plants growing naturally in Vaca Valley (Jepson 4176, 4178, 4721, 6276, 6278, 6846). 



Locs. The specimens cited are referred here chiefly on the basis of morphological char- 

 acter. Coast Eanges: Scott Bar to Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., Jepson 2956 (aestival) ; Horse- 

 shoe Bend, upper Sacramento Eiver, Jepson; Bucksport, Humboldt Co., Tracy 3210 (vernal), 

 2118 (aestival); Hydesville, Humboldt Co., Tracy 3600; Walker Mt., Mendocino Co., Davy $ 

 Blasdale 1028 (vernal); Willits, Jepson 2501; Blue Lakes, Lake Co., Jepson; Coyote Valley, 

 Lake Co., Jepson; Howell Mt., Jepson 2442 (aestival) ; Napa Valley, Sonne (vernal) ; Sonoma 

 Valley, Jepson 4188 (vernal) ; Eldredge, Sonoma Co., Jepson 5800 (vernal) ; Vacaville, Jepson 

 4174, 4175, 4721, 5163, 6846 (aestival), and 4176, 4178> 4179, 4180, 6276, 6278, 6791 (vernal) ; 

 Cordelia, Solano Co., Jepson 3080, 3083 (aestival); San Ramon Valley, Jepson 2643; San 

 Leandro, Jepson 5299 (small-flowered, vernal) ; Niles, Jepson 2471 (vernal) ; Los Gatos, 

 Heller 7285 (vernal) = E. revoluta Greene var. caudatocalyx Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4 104 :172; 

 Waltham Creek, San Carlos Range, Jepson 2657. Sierra Nevada: Upper Fall River Valley, 

 Jepson 5767 ; Stillwater, Shasta Co., Baker $ Nutting (aestival) ; Beckwith Pass, Jepson 7774; 

 Indian Valley, Plumas Co., Hall $ Babcock 4430 (aestival) = E. shastensis Greene ace. Fedde 

 in Bngler, Pflzr. 4 104 :161; Chinese Camp, Jepson 6316; Wawona, Hall 9001 (aestival); Cali- 

 ente, Kern Co., Jepson 6746 (leaf -segments broad and few) ; Keene, Tehachapi Mts., Jepson 

 7187. Great Valley: Marysville Buttes, Jepson; Clements, San Joaquin Co., Jepson 1821. 

 Southern California: Beaumont, Riverside Co., Jepson 6077, Hall 5753 (vernal) =E. sanctarum 

 Greene aec. Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4 104 :168. 



Var. maritima Jepson n. comb. Stems leafy, early ascending, later becoming prostrate, 

 % to 1 foot long; herbage very glaucous, glabrous or minutely scaberulous or the pubescence 

 often scurf -like; leaves with short crowded segments; calyptra of bud short-oblong, 4 to 5 J / 

 lines long, abruptly narrowed to a blunt or beaked apex; petals % inch long, lemon yellow 

 with an orange spot at base; pod 1% to 2 inches long; seeds nearly smooth. San Miguel Isl. 

 and coast of Santa Barbara Co., north to Monterey Co. June-Sept. 



Locs. San Miguel Isl., Greene in 1887 (cult, at Berkeley from San Miguel seed) ; San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Summers, June 17, 1884; Surf, Santa Barbara Co., K. Brandegee 5e, 6e, 7e, 8e, 9e; 

 Pacific Grove, Tidestrom, June 6, 1893, Chandler 320; Seaside, Monterey Co., K. Brandegee le, 

 2e, 3e, 4a 



Var. stricta Jepson n. comb. Stems slender, branched, many from a branched taproot, 

 % to 1 foot high; herbage glaucous, glabrous except for the scabrous-ciliolate petioles and 

 petiolules; torus rim narrow, the inner margin of almost equal width; petals 3 lines long; 

 stigmas 4 (or 2?); cotyledons bifid. Snow Mt., Lake Co., K. Brandegee, Aug. 25, 1892 and 

 June 22, 1891. Not at all well known and dubiously given varietal rank until better material 

 is collected. 



Other spms. before us, representing mostly slight departures from typical E. californica, 

 but treated by Greene or Fedde as distinct from it are: San Diego, Hall 3975 (E. clevelandii 

 Greene ace. Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4 104 :173); Foster, San Diego Co., Hall 3873 (E. vernalis 

 Greene ace. Fedde Le. 180) ; San Diego, C. F. Baker 3387 (E. clevelandii Greene ace. Fedde 

 Le. 173) ; Riverside, Hall 3826 and 3713, also Moreno Valley, Riverside Co., Hall 3849 (E. picta 

 Greene ace. Fedde I.e. 178) ; San Bernardino, Parish 4162 (E. Tiernardina Greene, Pitt. 5:255) ; 

 San Bernardino, Parish 5770 (E. picta Greene ace. Fedde Lc.) ; City Creek, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Parish 5722 (E. straminea. Greene ace. Fedde I.e. 179) ; Reche Canon, San Bernardino 

 Co., Parish 5607 (E. rigida Greene aec. Fedde Le. 170) ; Elysian Park, Los Angeles, Braunton 

 834 (E. picta Greene ace. Fedde I.e. 178) ; Palmdale, Antelope Valley, Hall 3046 (E. picta 

 Greene ace. Fedde I.e.) ; Lockwood Valley, Mt. Pinos, Ventura Co., Hall 6441 (E. absinthiifolia 

 Greene ace. Fedde I.e. 166) ; Santa Rosa Isl., T. Brandegee, June, 1888 (E. roliusta Greene, Pitt. 

 5:266) ; Santa Cruz Isl., Greene in 1886 (E. glauca Greene, I.e. 266) ; Santa Barbara, Bingham 

 in 1886 (E. leptomitra Greene, Lc. 265) ; Pt. Pinos, Monterey Co., Heller 6539 (E. menzies-iana 

 var. ooarctata Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. 2:147); Pacific Grove, Heller 6638, 6860 (E. helleriana 



