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herbarium are old and discolored, but all show the dark line or 

 blotch on the perianth segments characteristic of this species, 

 and in living plants the yellow is much darker in some than in 

 others. 



Eschscholtzia MINUTIFLORA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 122. 

 1876. 

 Watson originally described this as having "seeds nearly 

 smooth, scarcely half a line broad." He cites no particular local- 

 ity, but refers to the botany of the King Repoit. where the plant 

 is '.isted as "found on the dry foot-hills of the Vi ginia and Trin- 

 ity Mountains, W'estern Nevada." Greene, in Pittonia 5: 280, 

 under his description of E. uiinutiflora, says: "The above diag- 

 nosis is from material of Mr. Watson's own colic cling at Truckee 

 Pass, May, 1868, and the label bears this number 51." Tuickee 

 Pass, therefore, is the type locality. My no. 8651, collected at 

 Tuickee Pass, June 28, 1907, shows that Watson was only par- 

 tialis' correct in his description of the seeds. On one and the 

 same plant may be found immature seeds, olive-green in color, 

 which are "nearly smooth," while peifectly mature seeds are 

 almost black, strongly pitted. Watson evidently had only im- 

 mature seeds. 



CLEOMELLA Hillmani A. Nelson, Proc. Biol. Sjc. Wash. 18: 

 171. 1905. 



Cleomella lougipcs var. (?) grmidiflora Wats. Bot. King 

 Rep. 34. 1 87 1. 



Nelson describes this as having "seeds subspherical, 2-30101. 

 long, straw-colored, smooth," and says "I would pronounce this 

 Dr. Watson's C. lougipcs grandijiora if he had not said that the 

 seeds of that were dark colored and rugose or pitted." Profes- 

 sor Nelson was led astray by putting too great reliance upon 

 seed characters. Here too, as in Eschschollzia minutiflora, one 

 may find two apparently distinct seeds on the same plant. Dr. 

 Kennedy first called my attention to this fact, and on July 6, 

 1909, I collected a quantity of seed on University Heights, Reno, 

 the type locality. Nearly every plant had "straw-colored 

 smooth" seeds, as well as "dark colored, with the surface more 



