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Genus DEIVDROMECON Bentliuui. 



DENDROMECON FLEXILE Greene. 

 G.eene bull, 'oriey club, xiii. 216. 



"3-10' high: radical leaves entire, the 

 laminal portion rhombic-ovate, acutish: 

 cauline spatulate to linear, obtuse, sharp- 

 ly denticulate: petals narrowly oblong, 2" 



Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci i. 889:-Santa Cruz long: stamens 6-9. Temecula Canon, north 



Island, -on bushy hillsides everywhere: quite o* ^an Luis Rey, in San Diego county. 



. , ,, ,, , ^ ^ Cal., March 27, ISSo, by the writer. — 



pleuuiulon the north w.,.d s ope at no great Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., ii. 59 (Mar. 



dis all' e from the shore ' hefi.'i 



DENDROMECON HARFORDII Kellogg. 

 DENDROMECON RIGIDUM Benth. 



6, 1886). 



Genus ARGEMONE: Linnaeus. 



ARGEMONE CORYMBOSA Greene. 



Shrub 2-8 fc high, numeious slender ARGEMONE HISPIDA A. Gray. 



Is A platyceras L. & C. 

 ARGEMONE MEXICANA Linn. 

 ARGEMONE PLATYCERAS L. & O. 



Genus ESCHSCHOLTZIA Cham. 



branches, baric whitish : leaves ovate to lin- 

 ear-lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, very acute or mu- 

 crouate, sessile or nearly so; twisted upon the 

 base so as to become vertical, reticulately 

 veined, margin rough or denticulate : flowers 

 bright yellow, 1-3 in. in diam. on pedicels 1-t eSCIISCIIOLTZI.V GLAUCA Ge. 

 in. long: cai-sules curved, attenuate above esCHSCHOLTZIA MARITIMA Ge 

 into the short stout style, 13^-23^ in. long 

 seeds V/^ liiics long. 

 CANBY.V CANDIDA Parry. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA CIESPITOSA Bth. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA GLYPTOSPERMA Ge. 



Wholly glabrous and very glaucous: stems 



Scaiee an inch high, densely branched, the very short: leaves much dissected, but short 

 pomewhat llcphy leaves & short bianhes close- jj„^ compact: scape-like peduncles numer- 

 ]y crowded, fls w, petals 2 lin s 'ons; namei in ous. Cinches high, terete, and rather stout: 

 honor 01 Wiliiaiii M. Canby Or mj . G Am ac (.oroUa as in [E. temiifolia], but of a deeper 

 pr 2:51 1 1 (27 D 1876) Wat hot en 2 429. he 55 yellow, seeds not reticulate, but deeply pitted 

 Genus ROM3VEYA Harvey. and of an ash-gray color. A most peculiar 



Romneya coulteri Harv.— "A deadly species, collected in 1884, by Mrs. Curran, on 

 poison." "The whole plant is used, the Mohave Desert. The seeds are remarka- 

 bruised and boiled and applied as a bly unlike those of any other known Esch- 

 poultice or taken in liquor" — my notes scholtzia."— Ge Ca ac b 1:70 (7 Mr 1885). 

 do not state whereof its virtue con- esCHSCHOLTZIA MEXIC-4.NA Greene. 

 sists. It will 'naturally be inferred, "Annual, smooth and glaucous: foliage less 

 how^ever, that its properties are similar fl,jeiy dissected [than E. calil'ornica and E 

 to those of opium. peuiusularis]: stems short: peduncles nunser- 



Haif-hardy shrub, 6-15 It. high, branching ous, stout and scape-like: petals an inch long, 

 and flexuous, woody at base: leaves glaucous, yellow or cream color : torus short, obconical, 

 thickish, petioled, 3-5 in. long, the lower ojies the outer margin a subrcartllaginous ring, 

 plnnatilid, upper ones pinnately toothed; the inner erect, scarious, with stout nerves: 

 petioles and margins often sparingly filiate seed globular, apiculate, with coarse butrath- 

 with rigid spinose bristles; the magnificent er faint reticulations.— E. Californica, var. 

 wax-like fls. 6-9 in. acrofs; petals broadly parvula. Gray. Pi. Wright, 2.10. E. Doug- 

 obovate : fllamenis y^ in. long, bright yellow lasii, Torr. Mex. Bound, 31; Hemsl. Biol. Cent, 

 purple at base : capsule oblong, 1-2 in. longl Am. This plant ranges from tne region of 

 obscurely many angled, hispid with appress the upper Gila, in New Mexico, far south- 

 ed bristles and crowned with the persisteui -ward into Texas and adjacent Mexico, and is 

 stigmiis: seeds black, a line or less long. Ma- apparently a very good species."— Ge Ca ac 



tilija popi y, named in honor of Dr. T. Rom-, 

 ney Robinson, a noted astronomer, he 55 

 Genus PliATYSTIGMA Bentliam. 



b 1:69 (7 Mr 1885). 



A rank-growing Eschscholtzla. growing in 

 the San Rafael valley, Lower California, with 



PLATYSTIGMA CALIFORNICUM B.-H. large reddish-orange colored flowers, was 



PLATYSTIGMA I)ENTI('U(-aTUM Greene. 



Greene Bull. Tur ey ' lub. xiii. 218. 



Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.i.389. My. 28, 1887 



Santa Ciu '. Isl nd. he55 

 PLATYSTIGMA LINEARE Benth. 



Genus MECONOPSIS Vlguler. 



M. HETEROPhYLLA Benth. 

 MBCONELLA DENTICULATA Greene. 



doubtfully referred to this by Prof. Greene. 



E. LEMMONI Greene. 



"Annual, 6-12^ high, with numerous 

 ascending branches, leafy below, hoary 

 pubescent throughout, even to the cap- 

 sules, with short spreading white haiis; 

 leaves with elongated petioles; pedun- 



