U2 PAPAVERACEiE. EschschoUzia. 



++ ++ Seeds with thick gray coat and large deep pits. 



B. glyptosperma, Gkeene. Dwarf, wholly seapose : leaves much dissected into crowded 

 tilituriii-liuear divisions : scapes a span high : petals very broad, hardly half inch long : seeds 

 globose, coai-sely tuberculate-favose, the coriaceous meshes nearly as broad as the pits. — 

 Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 70. — S. E. California, on the Moliave Desert, Mrs. Curran. Prob- 

 ably also on eastern slope of San Jacinto Mountain, Parish (E. Paris/iii, Greene, 1. c. 183), 

 and S. Utah, Mrs. Thompsoit, and Bill Williams Fork, Biyelow (Pacif. R. Kep. iv. 64, under 

 E. Doufflasii, var. tenuifolia), but seeds not seen. 



++++++ Seed-coat strongly muricate-squamose : leaves with narrow and comparatively few 

 divisions. 



E. tenuifolia, Hook. Minutely hispidulous-pubescent below, or glabrous, seapose and 

 tufted from the slender root : divisions of the leaves seldom over 9 or 11 , mostly narrow- 

 linear: scapes a span or more high: petals liglit yellow, at most half inch long: torus 

 turbinate: seeds oval, densely muricate with oblong obtu-^e flattened processes in about 12 

 longitudinal rows. — Bot. Mag. t. 4812, excl. syn. ; Greene, 1. c. 70, excl. syn. ; not Benth. 

 E. Douglasii, var. tenuifolia, Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 64. E. Californica, var. ccespitosa, Brew. 

 & AVats. Bot. Calif, i. 23, excl. syn.i — California, valley of the Sacramento and adjacent 

 foothills of the Sierra Nevada ; first coll. by Fremont. 



4— 4— Petals quarter inch long or less, obovate, soon deciduous : seeds with reticulate 

 surface. 



E. minutiflora, Watson. Glabrous, leafy-stemmed and branching, a span to a foot high : 

 leaves thickish, small :" peduncles mostly shorter than the slender (inch or two long) capsule : 

 petals a Jine or two long, broadly obovate. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 122; Brew. & Wats. 

 1. c. ; Greene, 1. c. E. Californica, var. hypecoides, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 14, excl. syn. 

 E. modesta, Greene, Pittonia, i. 169. — N. Nevada, S. Utah to W. Arizona and southern 

 borders of California; first coll. by Newberry in Arizona, by Watson in Nevada. 



E. rhombipetala, Gkeene. Sparsely scabro-hispidulous below or glabrate, depressed- 

 spreading, very leafy at base, a span or two high : peduncles stout, subscapose, hardly 

 exceeding the tufted leaves, mostly longer than the large 2 or 3 inch long capsules : petals 

 rhombic-obovate, a quarter inch long, fugacious. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 71. -Valley of 

 the San Joaiiiiin and Sacramento, Mrs. Curran. 



Recently published species of doubtful affinity. 



E.* Lemmoni, Gkke.ne. " Annual, 6 to 12 inches high, with numerous ascending branches 

 h-aiy l)elow, hoary pubescent throughout, e\'en to the capsules, with short spreading white 

 hairs; leaves with elongated petioles; peduncles stoutish, quadrangular, the earliest scapi- 

 form ; torus urceolate, 3-4 lines long, nearly glabrous, constricted just below the narrow, 

 erect hyaline border; calyptra ovate, long acuminate, very conspicuously hairy; petals 

 orange-color, nearly or quite an inch long." — West Am. Sci. iii. 157 ; Fl. Francis. 287.— 

 " Fields near Cholame, San Luis Obispo Co., Mr. ^ Mrs. Lemmon." The character quoted 

 from the original description. 



Order IX. FUMARIACEtE. 



By a. Gkay. 



Nr^.arpst Papaveracece, now more commonly combined ^ith that order ; but 

 always with bland watery juice, and irregular dimerous flowers with definite (0) 

 diadelphous stamens in a more or less closed corolla. Leaves compound, usually 

 much dissected, tender, alternate. Sepals 2, small and scale-like. Petals 4 in 

 two pairs ; outer (lateral ones) with spreading tips, one or both spurred or saccate 

 at base : inner pair narrower, with callous-crested tips cohering over the enclosed 

 1 Add syn. E. cicspiiosa, Greene, Fl. Francis. 287, not Benth. 



