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from^above/'-Greene, Erythea 1:105-6. graceful appearance; when dry thev 



POTENTILLA ACUMINATA Hall. are Dinner and softer than in the oth- 



"Perennial from a stout somewnat er species. In their axils the leaf-hud* 

 woody root: stems several, slender, glan- aooear a? snii^ r 

 dular-pubescent, 4 in. or less high not Ild ' Pyramidal, thorn-like 

 scapose: Ivs sparsely pubescent on both l >erances, another singular char- 

 sides, the petioles glandular, pinnate acteristic." Greene Torr cl b 13- 21R 

 with 1 or 2 pairs of sessile or short-peti- (N 1886) 

 olate leaflets, or all but the terminal Tv,p XTTN ' 



sometimes suppressed; stipules lanceo- ^^-NDROMECON RIGIDUM Benth 



late, acute, entire; leaflets orbicular to khrub 2-8 ft high, with numerous slender 



cuneiform-obovate, 2-6 lines wide.conspic- "ranches, bark whitish: Ivs ovate to linear- 



uously toothed: fls few; pedicels slender, lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, very acute or mu- 



5 lines or less long: hypanthium hemis- cronate, sessile or nearly so, twisted upon 



pherical, 1 line wide; bractlets linear- tne base so as to become vertical, reticulately 



lanceolate, acute, half as long as the yemed, margin rough or denticulate: fls 1-3 



narrowly ovate acuminate sepals: petals ln - in di am or pedicels 1-4 in. long: capsuls 



y, narrowly ovate, acuminate, equalling curved, atemiate above into the short stout 



the sepals: stamens more than 20, closely st yle, 1^-2^ in. long: sds iy 2 lines lone 



inserted about the pistils: akenes 10 or TT Curran, Cal ac pr sr 2, 1: 244, refers ~D 



more, slightly incurved at apex, the Harfordu and D. flexile to this, 



somewhat longer style attached just be- DALEA OROUTTII S Watson 



low the tip." Ha U 86. "Perennial, with numerous short slender 



POTENTILLA CALLIDA Hall. herbaceous subprocumbent or ascending 



"Root thick, somewhat woody: stems stems (3-4' long) from a woody 



several, slender, erect or ascsnding, 2 in. branching rootstock, appressed silky-pu- 



or less high, villous throughout with long berulent: leaves 4-6" long, the folded 



hairs and also bearing some short gland- oblong-obovate leaflets (4-6 pairs) %" 



ular hairs above: spipules ovate, the free long, glabrous above: peduncles about 



portion % line long, entire or toothed; equalling the leaves; spikes short (&' 



Ivs villous, pinnate; the lower 6-10 lines long), somewhat crowded, the fl. reflexed 



long, with about 7 pairs of crowded Ifts; or spreading: calyx short-villous, turbi- 



the upper much shorter, bract-like, nate, the lanceolate acuminate teeth 



with 1-5 pairs _of Iflts; Iflts 1 line long, di- equalling or exceeding the tube; the p. 



vided to the base into 2 or 3 oval seg- orbicular banner and the wings scarcely 



ments: fls sometimes solitary on the ends exserted, the broad twice-longer keel p. 



of the stems but usually 3-6 in a simple on the inner margin." S. Watson, Proc. 



r,eceme; pedicels slender, 2-5 lines long: Am. Acad., xx. 359 (Feb. 21, 1885). 



hypanthium saucer-shaped, iy 2 -2y 2 lines Cantilles mts (Orcutt). 



wide; bractlets narrow; sepals twice as LUPIN US OROUTTII S Wat=on 



long, narrowly ovate, acute: petals w, "Diffusely miich branched from th 



oblong, obtuse or acutish. narrowed at base low (24' hhrhf 



base but not clawed a little longer than throughout with" short stiffish avic , 



the calyx (about l 1 /^ lines long): stamens hairs- Ipaflpts ^ nbinne- <?natiiiat# 



about 20; fll filiform: pistils several; style long sho?ter than the oeticSes- rc 



ateray attached, slightly longer than numerous T sessile m the axil? 1-2' 



the glabrous akene." Ha U 87. long> the scattered p. or reddish 'fl. 3" 



DENDROMECON FLEXILE Greene. long: pod oblong, 4" long, 2-3-seeded: 



"Six to ten ft. high, tree-like, with seeds 1" in diameter." S. Watson, 



numerous more or less drooping Proc - Am - Acad., xx. 359 (Feb. 21, 1885). 



branches; leaves ovate-oblong to ellip- ESCHSCHOLTZIA LEPTANDRA Greene 



tical, obtuse, often, mucronulate, 2-5 "Perennial, or at least biennial, a 



inches long, fleshy and glaucous, foot or more in height, rather stout, 



crowded on the branches, short-peti- strictly erect and with a somewhat 



oled, their margins smooth and revo- corymbose habit; glabrous and very 



lute; corolla rather pale yellow, 2 inch- glacous: ultimate leaf-segments rather 



es in diameter, on a short pedicel; cap- coarse, linear-spatulate, nearly paral- 



sules stout, curved, 3-5 inches long; lei; flower buds oblong-ovate, abruptly 



seed large, spherical, lightly scrobicu- and rather sharply acuminate; inner 



late, with a large amber colored car- rim of torus thin-hyaline, erect, per- 



uncle. A common large shrub of the vaded by about 16 stout and prominent 



island of Santa Cruz, very strikingly nerves, outer greatly reduced, but 



unlike either the original mainland manifest as a narrow somewhat tur- 



species, or that 'of the neighboring is- gid ring; petals an inch long, widely- 



land of Santa Rosa. The large, pallid, expanding, lemon-yellow throughout, 



somewhat succulent leaves are so nu- or orange-tinted below the middle; sta- 



merous as to weigh down the branches, mens about 32; anthers filiform and 



and this gives the shrub a rather nearly % inch long; filaments barely a 



