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ishii, elegans, glauca, maritima, leptandra, tenuisecta, glypto- 

 sperma, Lemmoni & rliombipetala Greene. 



Var. HYPECOIDES Gray. E. hypecoides Benth. E. minu- 

 tiflora Watson. E. raynosa & E. modesta Greene. 



Var. TENUiFOLiA. E. tenuifolia Hook. 



The large number of forms of Eschscholtzia recently de- 

 scribed, most of them intermediate between the original 

 species and the already doubtful E. ccespitosa and E. minu- 

 tiflora, has had the effect of rendering them all untenable, 

 and until the annual forms have been more abundantly col- 

 lected, not even varieties can be indicated with any cer- 

 tainty. Among the perennial forms there are certainly 

 none yet characterized which are worthy of even varietal 

 rank, all of them and most of the annuals being invalidated 

 by the variable form of our peninsula, a region from which 

 no one has yet had the hardihood to propose a new species. 



EschschoKzia Californica as it grows within the city limits 

 is always perennial, the young plants germinating in Au- 

 tumn, bloom in the following spring, and thenceforward 

 almost all the time. The branches, as is frequent among 

 our weak coast plants, are prostrate in exposed situations, 

 but more or less erect when sheltered, and dying at the end of 

 the flowering season, are often followed by scapose flowers 

 which spring from among the crown of long-peduncled leaves 

 before the succeeding branches appear. The plant varies 

 from smooth to scabrous; in color from pale-green to very 

 glaucous ; the lobes of the leaves from linear to 

 short-oblong ; the flowers from 1-2 inches in diameter, 

 from broadly campanulate (never "funnelform," at least in 

 full expansion) to nearly rotate; from orange to pale yellow 

 or ochroleucous, with or without a deeper orange base; the 

 calyptra, from long-acuminate to short-ovate, usually bi- 

 lobed at the apex, and opening by one long fissure and two 

 or three shorter ones; the torus rim from J^2 lines in width; 



