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the stamens from 12-40 in number, and the seeds from 

 round to oblong-apiculate, with cleft or entire cotyledons. 



The roughness of the surface of EsclischoUzia, for which I 

 do not know a very appropriate term, is exceedingly vari- 

 able. It is never really scabrous, for, though uneven to 

 the touch, it is always soft. Its mode of formation is best 

 observed in such forms as E. maritima, where the epidermis 

 is raised in small folds over nearly the entire plant, or in our 

 coast form, where it seems to be produced, in part at least, 

 by laceration of the membranous margins. The forms 

 described as "hirsute-scabrous," "hoary-pubescent," etc., 

 have only elongations of the ordinary roughness. 



The development of the flower is analagous to that of the 

 rose — the apical point ceasing to elongate, the outer layers 

 of the floral axis rise above it as a wall and are folded over 

 at the summit, the order of succession of the floral 

 organs being apparently from above downward. The por- 

 tion of the folded top of the receptacle to which the petals 

 and stamens are attached, is at first horizontal or de- 

 pressed, and usually marked with as many more or less 

 prominent ridges as there are stamens in the inner row. 

 The outer margin of the fold is often developed into a 

 prominent flesliy rim, to which an undue amount of impor- 

 tance has been attached, but in many cases hardly a trace 

 of it can be found, the so-called ' 'outer rim of the torus" in 

 such cases being the line of attachment of the caducous 

 calyptra. 



The petals are very frequently uneven, notched, or even 

 lobed, apparently from crumpling in the bud, and very 

 variable in size, shape and color even in the same variety. 



The seeds of EsclischoUzia are all, so far as I have seen, 

 reticulate, the elevated lines being apparently of the same 

 nature as the papillose-scabrous roughness of the plant. 

 The reticulations and their nature can best be seen in im- 

 mature seeds; later they are obscured by irregular develop- 

 ment, as in var. teniiifolia, sometimes in leptandra and in our 



