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PAPAVERACEAE 



Refs. ESCHSCHOI/TZIA LEMMONII Greene, W. Am. Sci. 3:157 (1887), type loc. Cholame, 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Lemmon in 1887; Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 199, fig. 24 30 (1909). Var. 

 laxa Greene, Pitt. 5:289 (1905), type loe. Alcalde, Fresno Co., Eastwood, May 10, 1893. Var. 

 cuspidata Greene Lc. type loc. San Luis Obispo, Jared in 1893. E. eximia Greene I.e. 273, based 

 on Zapato, Fresno Co., T. Brandegee, Mar. 27, 1893, and Alcalde, T. Brandegee, Mar. 30, 1893. 

 E. aloicornis Greene I.e. 273, type loc. Alcalde, T. Brandegee in 1891 ; Fedde I.e. 190, fig. 24". 

 E. delitescens Fedde I.e. 200 (1909), type loc. Alcalde, T. Brandegee in 1891. E. urceolata 

 Eastw. Bull. Torr. dub 30:488 (1903), type loc. hills betw. Cuyama Valley and Carrizo Plains. 

 Var. ASPRELLA Jepson, E. asprella Greene I.e. 272, type loe. San Miguelito Eancho, Monterey 

 Co., Eastwood, May, 1897; Fedde I.e., 189, fig. 24". 



5. E. lobbii Greene. (Fig. 124.) Scapose, 4 to 8 (or 11) inches high, the 

 leaves in a basal or sub-basal tuft with comparatively few linear or linear- 

 lanceolate to almost filiform divisions ; petals light yellow, 3 to 6 lines long ; seeds 

 strongly muricate with flattened processes, i,e., bur-like. 

 Sterile gravelly or clay foothills and rolling valley 

 plains, 1000 to 2000 ft. : Sierra Nevada foothills ; foothills 

 of inner North Coast Ranges and the Sacramento Valley. 

 Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. Sacramento Valley: *Redding, Nutting, M. S. Baker 4; 

 Manzanita Flat betw. South Fork Cottonwood Creek and Dibble 

 Creek, Tehama Co., Jepson; Chico, JB. M. Austin 93; *College City, 

 Oolusa Co., Alice King ; *Marysville Buttes, Heller 7575; *Willow 

 Branch, Sutter Co., Jepson; Violet sta., Solano Co., Jepson; Peace- 

 ful Glen Valley, nw. Solano Co., Jepson. Sierra Nevada foothills: 

 Simpson Ranch, Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee 

 32e (processes on seeds farther apart and less pronounced) ; 

 *Layne Ranch near Pilot Hill, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee 31e; 

 Folsom, K. Brandegee; Milton, Calaveras Co., Davy 1223; Table 

 Mt., near Sonora, Jepson 6424; Linden, San Joaquin Co., Gunni- 

 son; Grapevine Spr., e. of Visalia, Woolsey; Lemon Cove, Sop- 

 ping ; Kaweah, Hopping 261; Middle Tule River, Purpus 5005 

 (E. pulcliella Greene ace. Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4 104 :201). 



Refs. ESCHSCHOLTZIA LOBBII Greene, Pitt. 5:290 (1905) type 

 loc. nw. Solano Co., Jepson; Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4 104 : 200, "fig. 

 24 31 (1909). E. tenuifolia Hook. Bot. Mag. t, 4812 (1854), type 

 an English garden plant (Veitch), undoubtedly from Cal. seed 

 collected by Lobb; not E. tenuifolia Benth. E. graminea Fedde, 

 Rep. Nov. Sp. 2:146 (1906), type loc. Table Mt., Plumas Co., 

 M. E. P. Ames in 1867 (doubtfully placed here, no spms. seen). 

 E. pulchella. Greene I.e. 291, type loe. lowest foothills of n. Sierra 

 Nevada; Fedde in Engler, Pflzr. 4 104 .201, 24 32 - 33 . E. unguiculata 

 Greene I.e. 292, type loc. Madera, Buckminster. 



Fig. 124. ESCHSCHOLTZIA 

 LOBBII Greene, a, habit, 

 X % ; b, seed, X 5. 



6. E. caespitosa Benth. Stems usually scapose, several to many from a tuft 

 of basal leaves, 3 to 9 inches high, far exceeding the leaves; herbage glaucous, 

 glabrous or below somewhat hispidulous ; leaves cut into rather numerous narrow 

 lobes ; torus turbinate to oblong- turbinate ; petals pure yellow, % to 1 inch long ; 

 seeds longer than broad, abruptly acute, lightly reticulate or almost smooth. 



South Coast Ranges, south to Los Angeles Co. Apr.-May. 



Locs. Monrovia, Los Angeles Co., C. F. Baker 4180; Mono Creek, Santa Barbara, Hall 

 7821; Santa Inez Mts., T. Brandegee. 



Var. rhombipetala Jepson n, comb. Similar in habit but the scapes hardly exceeding the 

 leaves; torus usually about twice as long as broad; petals fugacious; seeds reticulate-pitted. 

 Foothills and plains at east base of the Mt. Diablo Range (Byron, Greene}. 



Var. hypecoid.es Gray. Stems slender, leafy, somewhat branched, 3 to 12 (or 18) inches 

 high; petals % to 1 inch long; seeds spherical or slightly elongate. Fertile hillslopes: Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Kern Co. to Butte Co., about 1200 to 2500 ft.; Coast Ranges from 

 Trinity Co. to Monterey Co., 100 to 2000 ft. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: Kaweah, Hopping 81; Grapevine Sprs., e. of Visalia, Woolsey, 

 Mar. 20, 1898; Dunlap, Fresno Co., Jepson 2761; ridge n. of Pinehurst, Fresno Co., Newlon 

 200 (fls. very deep orange) ; Knights Ferry, Bancroft; Duck Bar, Tuolumne River, A. L. Grant 

 714; Stanislaus River road near Parrott's Ferry, A. L. Grant; Jackson, Amador Co., Hansen 

 81; *Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., E. Brandegee 25e, 26e; *Folsom to Placerville near 





