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Genus ACTAEA Linnaeus. 



Sep 4-6, nearly equal, pet-like, early 

 decid: pet 4-10, sm: sta num: pistil 1; 

 stig sessile, 2-lobed: fr a many-seeded 

 berry: sds smooth, flattened, packed 

 horizontally in 2 rows: per herbs, with 

 2-3-ternately compound Ivs: rt com 

 tuberous or thickened: fls in a terminal 

 short raceme. 

 ACTAEA SPICATA Linn. 



Raceme at first ovate or corymbi- 

 form; pet com rhombic-spatulate: ber- 

 ries slender-pedicelled, oval, bk at ma- 

 turity. Eu: Asia. 

 Variety ARGUTA Torrey. 



Fr w or r, in a loose more elongated 

 raceme. Japan; Alk; SF; Eu; Sib; BC; 

 NM. 



Genus PAEOXIA Linnaeus. 



herbs with ternately or pinna'te- 



,ipdund Ivs and large showy fls: 



ii, herbaceous and persistent: 



pet of the same number, borne with 



the many sta on a fleshy disk: sty 



short or 0: follicles 2-5, thick, leathery, 



<J -seeded. Peony. 

 PAEONIA BROWNH Douglas. 



Glaucous and somewhat fleshy, 20-40 



cm high; Ivs mostly radical, ternately 



Or birernately divided, the lobes obo- 



to linear-spatulate; peds 2.5-5 cm 



long; pet about equaling the sep, 



:h r; follicles usually 5, broadly 



looth. 2-4 cm long. 



Abrams, Fl LA 152. "Occasional in 

 the foothills throughout our range. 

 Mr-Ap." 

 PAEONIA CALIFORNICA Xuttall. 



Restricted in its distribution (Greene, 

 Garden and Forest 3:356) to Southern and 

 Lower California. Glabrous but not glau- 

 cous, leaves twice or thrice as large as in 

 P. brownii, of rounded and pedate general 

 outline. Grows in dry, rocky soil, from a 

 few hundred, to two or three thousand 

 feet altitude, where is is subjected to a 

 light fall of snow (Orcutt W 7:215). With- 

 out much floral beauty, though the lux- 

 uriant foliage makes it useful in some sit- 

 uations. 



Xuttall, in T & G Fl 1:41 (1838). 

 Bloeh, Erythea 2:163, note on medi- 

 cinal repute. 



The root of the Pionia is considered 

 valuable by the natives for the healing 



on man or beast. 

 SF.>r" and SD Co. Baja! 



distributed as P. Brownii. 

 .teon, PI LA Co 1. 



locality: "margins of bushy 

 plains, and in valleys of the moun- 

 :n the vicinity St. Barbara, L'p- 

 lifornia." 



PAPAVERACEAE. 



Herns or rarely shrub- with \v. y or 



colorless sap and alt exstipulate Ivs or 



the upper rarely opp. Fls solitary or 



in el feet, regular or ir: Sep 



r united into a calyptra, ca- 



rarely ?, or 4: Pet 4-6 or 



rarely 0: imbricated, deciduous: Sta 



num or fe-.v. hypogynous. distinct, fil 



-filiform; anth opening by a longitudin- 



al slit: Ova 1, many-ovuled, mostly 1- 

 celled. the carpels rarely becoming dis- 

 tinct in fr: sty short, stig simple or di- 

 vided; ovules anatropous: Fr a cap- 

 sule, generally dehiscent by pores or 

 valves. 



Genn.s ESCHSCHOL.TZIA Cham. 



Smooth glaucous herbs, with colorless bit- 

 ter juice, finely dissected Ivs and bright 

 orange or yellow fls. Sep coherent into a 

 narrow pointed hood, deciduous atr anthesis 

 fr,om a dilated torus. Pet 4, borne on the 

 torus. Sta numerous, with 2 nerve-like pla- 

 centae ; styles short : stigmas divided into 4-6 

 linear unequally divergent lobes. Capsule 

 elongated, 10-nei'ved, 1-celled, dehiscent by 

 2 valves separating from placental ribs. Sds 

 globose, reticulate or rough tuberculate. Cal- 

 ifornia Poppy, the state flower of California. 

 ESCHSCHOIiTZIA CALIFORNICA 



Chem, in nees Horae Physicae Berol 

 73 t 15. 



"Per, glabrous, glaucesent, diffuse- 

 ly dichotomous, the branches com pros- 

 trate, forming a mat often a yard in 

 width: Ivs sm for the plant and remote, 

 ultimate seg oblong and spatulate-ob- 

 long, obtuse, the middle one of the 3 

 broadest: ex ovoid, or even round-ovoid, 

 abruptly and obtusely short-pointed, 

 about \' z i long: cor sm for the plant, 

 nearly rotate, seldom 1^ i broad, pet 

 clear y from below the middle but with 

 a well defined or spot at base: sta or: 

 torus-rim deflexed under the fr and un- 

 dulate: pods sm. seldom 2 i iong: sds 

 spherical, strongly reticulate. * * 



"This type species of the genus I 

 now judg'e to be limited to the mari- 

 time hills, more or less sandy, of the 

 SF peninsula. I can obtain no evi- 

 dence of its ever having been under 

 cult even in Am much less in Eu ; and 

 all the so-called E. Californica of the 

 various illustrated journals of bot or 

 of hort represents some other species 

 in every instance. It has been figured 

 only by Chamisso. and in that case 

 from dried specimens; and this plate 

 in the Horae Physicae. correct as to the 

 impression it gives of the habit of the. 

 plant when well grown, is altogether 

 misleading as to the cor; for this 

 shows the pet as if rounded off to the 

 round-obovate. and so spreading as to 

 show open spaces between them, 

 whereas in nature they are triangular 

 flabellifpi-m, overlapping one another in 

 such wise that the cor as a whole ap- 

 pears as an unbroken circle. In color- 

 ing, too, the plate is false, for the up- 

 per part of each pet is made or-color, 

 the lower part light-y, though in' na- 

 ture just the reverse of this is true. 

 But in the dried specimens the whole 

 pet is apt to turn to a kind of dull 

 deep or, and the distinction of color 

 vanishes." Greene, Pittonia 5:221. 

 ESCHSCHOX.TZIA MINTJTIFLORA. 



Sereno Watson. Am ac pr 11:122. 



"Slender, branching, a ft hi: fls 3 

 li in diam or less: torus without bor- 

 der: cap 1 U i long, very narrow: sds 

 hardly V 2 li in diam, nearly smooth. 

 Peculiar to the interior basin, ranging 

 from northwestern Xev (Watson) to 



