_ CHRYSAMPHORA. PAPAVERACE. 31 
PLATYSTRMON. 
als. Style short, with 5 short linear or club-shaped lobes. 
Capsule loculicidally 5 valved. Seeds very numerousfobovate- 
clavate, thickly beset with soft slender projections. | 
C. Californica Greene 1. c. A smooth perennial herb of greenish 
yellow hue, from long creeping rootstocks, leaves tubular gradually enlarg- 
ing upwards to a vaulted ventricose hood which terminates ina forked de- 
flexed appendage, under which is the contracted rounded orifice, the ven- 
tral edge winged: scapes 2-3 feet high bearing several membranaceous bracts; 
and a solitary noddinf flower; sepals dull yellow 1-2 inches long, much 
longer than the brown, spotted with yellow petals. In bogs, soutnwestern 
Oregon and northern Cialifornia. 
Orper V. PAPAVERACEZ Endl. Gen. 854. 
Herbaceous or rarely shrubby plants, with milky or colored 
juice. -Leaves mostly alternate, without stipules. Peduncle 1- 
flowered. Sepals, petals and stamens hypogynous. Sepals [2 
or 3. Petals twice asmany, in two sets, imbricated and usu- 
ally crumpled inthe bud. Stamens indefinite. Capsule 1-celled 
with parietal placente. Seeds anatropous, with minute embryo 
in copiousalbumen. Platystemon is exceptional in having the 
several capels distinct or at least early separting and forming 
as many torulose pods, and Eschscholtzia has colorless juice 
in the herbage. ; 
-Tripet. Annuals with opposite entire leaves. Sepals usually 
three, distinct: 
1. Platystemon. Filaments very broad; carpels many, distinct or soon 
becoming so. 
2. Platystigma. Filaments slightly dilated or filiform, ovary 8-ovuled. 
3. Canbya. Filaments shorter than the anthers, persistent; ovary 3- 
valved. 
TRIBE 11. Annual or perennial herbs. Sepals completely 
united into a narrow cap which falls off entire from a top-shaped 
receptacle. 
4. Esehscholtzia. Stigma lobes 4-6, subulate, unequal; style very 
short: capsule linear, 2-valved. 
1 PLATYSTEMON Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. ser. 2, i, 405. 
Low annual with mostly opposite or whorled, entire leaves 
and long-peduncled yellow flowers that are nodding in the bud. 
~ Sepals 3, distinct. Petals 6, in two series. Stamens many with 
broad flattened filaments and linear anthers. Carpels 6--18, each 
several-ovuled, at first all united in a circle into a deeply, pluri- 
suleate, compound ovary by as many parietal placente, in fruit 
separating and closing into as many torulose, narrow follicles 
which when mature are disposed to break up transversely into a 
few 1-seeded joints. 
P. Californica Benth. 1.c. Stems slender, branching from the base 
6-12 inches high, hispid with long spreading hairs: leaves 1-4 inches long, 
sessile or clasping, broadly linear, obtuse: peduncles 3-8 inches long: 
