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JEschscholtzia ( Hunnemannia) 



funi'irii -a Jul 'hi . 



America. They have alternate exstipulate leaves with linear lobes. 

 Their flowers are solitary on long terminal or leaf-opposed peduncles. 

 In the flowers of E. tenuifolia? cultivated in our gardens, the 

 receptacle forms a sac without any external prominent rim. This 

 cannot, however, be separated generically from Esckscholtzia, any 

 more than the so-called Hunnemannia 2 

 fumariecefolia (fig. 141), a Mexican plant 

 which has been made the type of a 

 distinct genus because its sepals separate 

 instead of remaining united edge to 

 edge ; we hence consider it a distinct 

 section of the genus Eschscholtzia? 



Dendromecon rigidwm* has the flowers 

 of a Hunnemannia, with a style divid- 

 ing above into two short thick erect 

 stigmatiierous lobes, alternate with the 

 placentas. Its fruit is, moreover, nearly 



that of an Esckscholtzid, narrow and elongated, dehiscing into two 

 long recurved valves that bear the seeds on their edges. But its 

 vegetative organs are very different ; it is a shrub (from California) 

 with alternate simple entire rigid reticulate leaves/' and solitary 

 terminal flower/' 



Fig. hi. 



Flower. 



IV. FUMITORY SERIES. 



The only reason that Fumitory (Fr., Fumeterre, figs. 142, 159- 

 1G5) should give its name to this series is that it is the most 

 common and the longest known type ; but it is, as we shall see later, 

 an irregular and reduced one. In fact, it is not easy to understand 

 its organization, till after the study of some other genera of the 



1 Benth., in Trans. Hort. Soc, ser. 2, i. 408. 



2 SWKBT, Brit. Fl. Gard., iii. t. 270 — 

 Hook., in But. Mag,,t. 3061. — Eis'DL., &en., 

 n. -1828. — B. H., Gen., 54, n. 16. 



3 The ovary bears ten longitudinal ribs, three 

 corresponding with each carpellary leaf, and two 

 with each placenta. The stigmatiferous lobes 

 are shorter than in Eschschollzia. There lire 

 often six of them, two placentary, four 

 carpellary. The dehiscence of the anthers 



is nearly marginal. The pollen is orange- 

 coloured. 



1 Benth., in Truns. Hurl. Soc, ser. 2, i. 

 4( '7.— B. II., Gen., 54, n. 15.— Hook., Icon., t. 

 37 ; in But. Mag., i. 5134. 



5 Subsessile, elliptical, or lanceolate, penni- 

 veined, with a network of anastomosing libs. 



6 With a yellow delicate corolla, opening in 

 sunshine, and closing in the shade, as in Each- 

 scholizia. 



