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A low , somewhat procumbent shrub, 

 less than a ft high: Ifts 3-7, ovate, 

 acute, not acuminate, l-'2y 2 i long, not 

 shiny above: racemes few, terminating 

 the stems (1-1 ^ i long 1 . 

 Genus. CANBYA Parry. 



Gray, Am ac pr 12:51, t 1. 



Sep 3, caducous: pet 6, persistent, at 

 length scarious and enwrapping tne 

 capsule: sta 6-9; fil shorter than the 

 oblong-linear anth: Ova subglobose, 3- 

 carpelled. with nerve-like many-ovuled 

 placentas: stigmas sessile, linear-ob- 

 long, appressed to the ovary over the 

 placentas: capsule ovoid, membranac- 

 eous, 3-valved, the valves separating to 

 the base from the persistent filiform 

 placentas: Sds several, very smooth 

 and shining, narrowly oblong-obovate 

 and slightly curved; rhaphe naked: 

 Kmbryo very sm cylindrical. 

 CANBYA AUREA S. Watson. 



"A slender form (?)." 

 CANBYA CANDIDA Parry. 



Gray, Am ac pr 2:51 t 1 (27 D 1876). 



S. Watson, Bot Cal 2:429. 



Scarcely 1 i high, densely much 

 branched, the sm somewhat fleshy Ivs 

 and very short branches closely crowd- 

 ed: fis w, the pet hardly 2 li long: a 

 dwarf glabrous ann with alt linear en- 

 tire Ivs and num filiform 1-fl'd scapes. 

 S^er Co (Cajon Pass)! 

 Genus PAP AVER Linnaeus. 



The California species are ann herbs, 

 with narcotic juice: Ivs pinnately cleft, 

 lobed or divided: fls showy, solitary on 

 long peds, nodding in bud: sep 4: pet 

 4: sta many: ovary and capsule obo- 

 void to subglobose, with 4-many in- 

 truded placentae: capsule dehiscent 

 just below the stigmatic summit by 

 pores or valve-like openings. 

 PAPAVER CALIFORNICUM Gray. 



Santa Barbara Co. to San Diego; Cam 

 po (Or loil). 



Giay -im ac pr 22:313. 



McClatchie Erythea 2:79. Pasadena., 



SfJer (Spence). SD! 



Greene, Pittonia 1:167. 



Or, Garden and Forest 3:385. 



Or 1511, Campo, Cal. 



Two ft high or less; glabrous or 

 sparsely pilose-pubescent; juice milky; 

 Ivs pinnately divided, the seg oblong 

 or roundish, toothed or lobed or entire; 

 pet r with a g spot at base; stig ses- 

 sile and radiate upon the summit of 

 the ovary, persistent in tr; capsule % 

 i long or more, turbinate-obovate, 6-11- 

 n vet; pores or valve-like openings 

 just beneath the stig.. quadrate. 



Papaver Leinmoni Greene. 



Abrams, Fl LA 163. Monica, Gabriel 

 mtu. **T-My. 

 PAPAVER HETEROPHYLLUM Greene. 



Meconopsis heterophylla Benin, Hort 

 Sec tr 2:1. 



Clear Lake, Cal. to- San Quintin, Baja 

 Cal (Palmer 6SO). 



Ouiiitin (Palmer 680). Cruz Cat LA 

 CT)a). Fan Clemente Island. Clear 

 Lake, Cal. 



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Wind poppy: 1-2 ft high, glabrous; 

 juice y; Ivs pinnate or pinnately cleft, 

 or pinnate with pinnately cleft lobes, 

 the seg exceedingly diverse in shape 

 on the same plant or even on the same 

 If, varying from oval and entire or 

 lobed to narrowly linear; pet broadly 

 cunate-obovate, brick-red, with a dark 

 spec at base, 1 i long or less; stig 

 capitate at summit of a distinct and 

 slender style; capsule clavate-obovoid, 

 3-7 li long; pores small with rounded 

 valves which separate from the stout 

 parietal ribs. 



Greene. Pittonia 1:168, based on 

 Meconopsis heterophylla Bentham. 



Meconopsis crassifolia Bentham. 



Genus PLATYSTIGMA Bentham. 



Ann herb with Ivs, sep and pet as in 

 Platystemon, fls rarely with 2 sep and 

 4 pet: pet deciduous: sta 6-12: carpels 

 3, combined into a single 1-celled 

 ovary, which is 3 lobed or nearly ter- 

 ete: placentae as many as the carpels, 

 parietal, many-ovuled: stigmas ovate 

 to subulate: capsule competely 3- 

 valved, dehescent through the placen- 

 ta.^. 

 PLATYSTIGMA LINEARE Benth. 



Acquiescent or nearly so; scapes 

 commonly 4-8 i high, hispid with 

 spreading hairs: Ivs linear, 1-2 i long, 

 sessile; sep brownish; pet light y, cun- 

 eate-orbicular or obovate, 4-9 li long; 

 sta many, fil conspicuously dilated; 

 body* of capsule 5-7 li long. SF, south 

 PLATYSTIGMA DENTICULATUM. 



Greene, Cal ac b 1:389. Cruz. 



Greene, Torr cl b 13:218, based on 

 Meconella denticulat (which see for 

 description.) 



Abrams, Fl LA 159. 



Genus PLATYSTEMON Bentlmm. 



Low an with mainly opp entire Ivs: 

 sep 3: pet 6 in 2 series: sta many: fil 

 petaloid and obovate or spatulate: stig 

 subulate-filiform, 1 terminating- each 

 carpel: carpels 6-20, each several- 

 ovuled, connivent or coherent in a cir- 

 cle, becoming- torulose, at maturity 

 separating, and breaking transversely 

 into indehiscent 1-seeded joints: an- 

 thesis lasting for more than one day: 

 pet tardily deciduous, withering and 

 closing over the forming fr. Cream 

 cups. 

 PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUS Bnth. 



Cieam-cups. Conspicuously pilose; 

 branched from the base, widely spread- 

 ing a.nd more or less decumbent or 

 nearly acaulescent, 3-6 i high; peduncle 

 more or less scape-like, 5 i long; pet 

 cream-y; sta about 25. 



Southern Utah; Arizona. Mendocino 

 Co to SD; Quintin. 



PLA.TYSTKMON CRINITUS Greene. 



"Suhaca.ulescent, the foliage, scapi- 

 form peduncles, and the calyx densely 

 crinite-hirsute with w soft spread- 

 ing 1 hairs 3 or 4 li long: it buds exactly 

 globose: cor 1 i broad, pet deep green- 



