Exchsclioltzia. I'Al'ANKltACE.E. <Jl 



A'.) Doiu/lasii, & Califoniicn, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. C.tU ; Ilouk. & Arn. Hut. Beei-Ji. .Tl'j. — 

 Oreyuu aud through the whole length of California, most tomiium ulung tlie i<j;»>t, where 

 also most perennial and semporflorent. The var. DoKi/lasii in a form wjtli narrower t«iriw- 

 rim, and i)ure yellow corolla. First coll. liy Minziis, later hy CIkiihissh &, Ksriiscliullz. 



?E.* ambigua, (Jrkenk. Annual, dwunda-nt, glaucous and sialirous-pulicrident through- 

 out: otherwise scarcely distinguishalde from forms of tlie preceiling. — Fl.Fnincis.2HC; 

 Man. Hay-Keg. 11. — Central California near the coast, San Lui.i Ol.ispo, Mr. ,y Mm. 

 I.i'iiimnn, Mt. Dialilo, acc. to Greene, and (?) at Castroville, liidndtijev. 



E.* maritima, Gukkne. Perennial, den.sely cinereous-pnlieruleut : stems " pnwtrate." verv 

 leafy : cauline leaves rather small, with short crowded segments: calyptm of the luid short- 

 oblong, half incli ill length, aliru])tly narrowed to a blunt apex: petals three fourths imh 

 long, "lemon-yellow with a rhomboidal spot of orange at biise:" jmmI an inch and a half 

 in length; .seeds nearly smooth. — I'ittonia, i. GO. — Abundant on clayey slopes near the 

 sea, Sau Miguel Island, California, (ininie. 



E. peninsularis, Gkkkne. Winter annual (or sometimes perennial t), tufted and many- 

 stemmed from the tap-root, at fir.st scapo.se, a span or two high : petals flabelliform or 

 hroadly cuueate, golden yelhnv, .5 to 8 lines long; expanded rim of the torus conspicuous: 

 seeds less favose-reticulated. — Hull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 68, 18.3. — Common in S California, 

 from San Bernardino Co. to San Diego, &c.. Coulter, Pmish, Oicittl, &c. ; also :us far nortii 

 as upper part of Salinas Valley, Brewer. (Lower Calif.) 



* * Dilated torus cyathiform or tubular-campauulate, destitute of exjtanded rim or Iiorder, 

 although the edge sometimes becomes sphacelate and a little ftcurved in age, a hvaliue 

 internal edge (within tlie insertion of the calyx) commonly a little i)rojecting: annuals, 

 mostly low or slender. 

 •i— Petals from one thinl to two tliirds or rarely an inch long, broadly cuneate, hunting more 

 than one day. 



-H- Seeds superficially reticulated or almost smooth. 



E. ramosa, Grkenk. Glaucous and glabrous, with rigid erect stems branching above, verv 

 leafy to tlie top: leaves much di.ssected into narrow linear and divaricate divisions and 

 lobes; upper usually surpassing the short-peduncles: ])etals ([uarter to half inch long, light 

 yellow (or orange in drying): torus turbinate. — Hull. Torr. Club, xiii. 217. JC. tlii;iiii.i, 

 var. ramosa, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 182. E. Californiai, var. In/ptcoules, Wats. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 112 (form with smaller flowers). — Santa Cruz lslau<l off Santa Barbara, 

 California, Greene, San Clcmeute, Xn-iii & Lijon. (Lower Californian islands, Slrtcl:, 

 Palmer, Greene.) 



E. CSespitosa, Benth. (ilaucous, sparsely hispidnlous below wlien young, or else quite 

 glabrous, commonly leafy only at base, and the leaves with narrow- or cuneate linear 

 ascending divisions and lobes: peduncles ehmgated: earlier ones .scapiform. a span or two 

 long; later ones from more or less leafy steins : petals pure yellow, half inch to inch long: 

 torus tui-binate to oblong-turbinate. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 272; E. caspitosa &. 

 E. tenuijhlia, Benth. Trans, llort. Soc. ser. 2, i. 408, therefore C/in/.ieis ni.i/il/osa & C. (en<ii- 

 folia, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. G.'J, 64. E. Cnlifornica, var. /iifpecoide.i, Brew. & Wats. Hot. Calif, 

 i. 2.3. E. Doiirjlasii, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 64. E. Anst'nuv, Greene, Bull. Calif. Ac:id. 

 Sci. i. 69. — Common throughout California, especially northwiird and westward. 



Var. hypeCoid.es, Gray, 1. c. Leafy stenimeil, slender (:i sp.in to a foot high). «ith 

 coarser lobes to the leaves, and petals Inilf inch long or less. — E. /n/piroidis, Benth 1. c. 

 CJiri/seis hi/pecoides, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 64. — W. California,' CoulUr, IhnujUis, &e. No scckls 

 seen : torus u.sually narrow. 



E. Mexicana. Giu-kni:. AVholly ghibrous, glaucous, low and .scajmse or with later leafy 

 braiK-lies: leaves of thick and firm texture and rather coarsely ami compactly dis.<ected : 

 l)eduncles 2 to 10 inches long: jietals orange yellow, very broad, half inch to :xlmost inch 

 long: torus turbinate or campanulate — Hull. C:ilif. Ac:ul. Sci. i. 6'.» ; (iriy. 1. c. E. 

 Domilasii, var. parrnla, Gray. PI. Wright, ii. 10. — Plains of Arizona, S. I'taii. and New 

 Mexico,- Biijelow, TIntrher, Neirherrji, Janvier, Mrs. Thompson, liu.tlii/, &c. (Adj. Mex. Ik-Iow 

 El I'aso, Wright, Guadalupe Islaml, Lower Calif., E. eler/atis, Greene ?) 



1 Northward to OrcL'oii, Huictll. '^ San Hcrnardiiio Co., Cilif., Pansh. 



