32 PAPAVERACEZ. PLATYSTIGMA. 
‘CANBYA, 
sepals hispid: petals pale yellow shading to orange in the center, 3-6 lines 
long, tardily deciduous, at length loosely closing over the forming fruit; 
carpels aggregated into an oblong head, 5-10 lines long, beaked with the 
linear persistent stigmas, the one-seeded divisions a line long: seeds 
smooth. Southern Oregon near the sea to California. | 
2. PLATYSTIGMA, Benth. 1. c, 406. 
Low and slender annuals with verticillate or opposite entire 
leaves and long-peduncled. white or yellow flowers in spring. 
Sepals 2 or 3. distinct. Petals 4 or 6, in two series, deciduous. 
Stamens 6--12, rarely 4, with narrow filaments. Carpels 3, rarely 
4, wholly combined into a somewhat 3-lobed, or angled, or nearly 
terete ovary, having as many strictly parietal placente. Stigmas 
ovate to subulate. Seeds smooth and shining. 
P. lineare Benth. 1. c. 407. Somewhat villous with spreading hairs, 
6-12 inches high, the stems usually very short and leafy: leaves all linear 
sessile, 1-2 inches long: petals yellow, 4-6 lines long: stamens numerous, 
with oblong-linear anthers: capsule half inch long, oboyvoid or clavate- 
ovoid, crowned with the 3 broad and obtuse spreading introrsely stigma- 
tose stigmas.— Valleys and low hills, Oregon to central California. 
P. Oreganum Watson, Bibl. Index 43. Smooth, 1-3 inches or more high 
with spreading branches or peduncles: leaves a quarter to at most an inch 
long, lower round to spatulate, on long wing-margined petioles; upper 
leaves spatulate to linear 2-4 lines long, verticillate or opposite: flowers on 
long filiform peduncles, opening at night only: petals white 1-2 lines long: 
stamens 4-6, with filiform filaments and oblong anthers: stigma subulate : 
capsule linear, 8-10 lines long, the thin valves commonly twisted in age. 
. us open places, Hood River and the Willamette valley to the borders of 
alifornia. 
3. CANBYA Parry in Gray Proc. Am. Acad. xii, 51, tid 
- Little annuals with alternate entire leaves and numerous fili- 
form, one-flowered scapes. Sepals 3. Petals 6, scarrious-marces- 
cent and persistent, closing over the capsule till the fruit is grown. 
Stamens 6 or 9: filaments shorter than the oblong-linear anthers. 
Capsule ovoid, strictly 1-celled, 3-6-valved from above; valves 
alternating with as many nerviform placente. Style none. Stig- 
‘mas 3 oblong-linear, opposite the 3 nerviform placente and re- 
curved-appressed to them. Seeds neither crested nor carunculate. 
C. aurea Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxi, 445. Stems 1-2 inches high : 
leaves fleshy, linear, 1-3 lines long, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, all 
clustered at the base of the stem: scape-like peduncles few to several, half 
to an inch or more long: flowers bright yellow; petals ovate, 1% lines long, 
deciduous. On the Sage Plains southwest of Prineville, Oregon. — 
4, ESCHSCHOLTZIA, Cham. in Nees. Hore. Phys. Berol. 73, t. 15. 
Smooth herbs with colorless (or of the root red, ) bitter juice, 
finely dissected alternate petioled leaves, and bright yellow flow- 
ers in summer, usually only opening in bright sunshine. Sepals - 
2, completely united into a conical calyptra and is detached and 
pushed offby the expansion of the petals. Petals 4. Stamen 
numerous, with short filaments and linear anthers. Ovary linear, 
strictly 1-celled, with two nerviform placentse. Style very short: 
