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Distribution: Coast Ranges or central California and the west- 
ern slope of the Sierra Nevada, southward through the chaparral 
belt to northern Lower California. The species proposed by 
Greene do not seem valid, at least so far as the plants of the main- 
land are concerned. I have examined critically all the species 
enumerated above except D. saligna with the result that I feel 
constrained to reduce them to synonymy. There is variation 
in foliage, but this is often marked in a locality where the character 
of the soil or moisture vary, and seems to be an ecological variation. 
Specimens examined: Santa Ynez Mountains, Elmer 3875; Red 
Reef Canyon, Topatopa Mountains, Abrams &F McGregor 138; 
Big Tejunga Wash, Abrams 1373; near Elizabeth Lake, Abrams 
&§ McGregor gor; vicinity of San Bernardino, Parish 4835; Clare- 
mont, Baker 4150, Waterman Canyon, San Bernardino Moun- 
tains, Parish 3474; Lone Pine Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, 
Abrams &&§ McGregor 675; Fallbrook, Jones 3103; Soledad Canyon, 
Greene, May 18, 1885; Encinitas, Brandegee, June, 1887; Jamul 
Valley, Palmer 238; Campo, Vasey 18; Jacumba Hot Spring, 
Mearns 3351; Julian, Susan G. Stokes, July 26, 1895. 
2. ROMNEYA. Mariiiya poppy. 
Sepals glabrous, beaked. a. R. _ 
Sepals hispid, beakless or with an inconspicuous beak. 2. R. trichocalyx. 
1. Romneya Coutrert Harv. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 4: 75, 
pl. 3. 1845. 
Type locality: “In California boreali.”’ 
Distribution: Santa Ana Mountains, southward to northern 
Lower California. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Trabuco Canyon, Santa Ana Mountains, 
Abrams 1852; near Corona, Hall 1280; Santa Ana Canyon, near 
Anaheim, Parish 393; Temescal, Parish 43094. This species and 
the next are not true shrubs, but the stout stems, which often 
attain a height of 2 meters, persist for a number of years. 
2. Romneya rricuoca.yx Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. IIT. 1: 133, 
pl. 11, f. 4a, ge. 1898. 
Type locality: The figures “were drawn from fresh specimens 
{cultivated] in Golden Gate Park,’ San Francisco. 
