39 



ireportedj while those with a spread of 4 or 5 inches were not 

 tilicotiimon. It was the only member of the genus noticed there 

 at the time. The type was collected near Visalia, Tulare 

 county, and if near the town at a point over 3000 feet lower, for 

 Tehachapi is at an elevation of nearly 4000 feet. Some of the 

 specimens show the persistent calyx under the open fiower. 

 The flowers have faded to a pale yellow, thus losing much of 

 the beauty presented in the living state. One would expect 

 this to be E. rigida^ the type of which was collected at Tehach- 

 api, but it does not answer to the description of that species. 



EsCHSCHOLTziA RECTA Greene, Pittonia, 5: 245. 1905. 



Type for flower. Baker, 2921, from near Elmira, Solano 

 county; seeds from a specimen from Antioch, Contra Costa 

 county. 



No. 7903, collected May 30, in a meadow about two miles 

 northeast of Redding, Shasta county. The calyx in maturity is 

 ovate, 12 mm. long including the apiculation of 3 mm., 5 or 6 

 mm. across: pods about 4 cm. long, and the seeds as described. 

 So far as locality is concerned this should be E. shastensis^ but 

 does not answer to the description of that species. 



No. 8002, collected June 8, at Yreka, Siskiyou county. In 

 these specimens the calyx is larger, abruptly acuminate, the 

 acuminatiou 4 mm. long. Some of the pods are 9 cm. long, the 

 seeds examined immature, greenish. The same thing appar- 

 ently, is plentiful in Shasta Valley between Edgewood and 

 Montague. According to range this should be E. confinis^ but 

 it does not seem to differ materially from no. 7903. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA THERMOPHILA Greene, Pittonia, 5: 256. 1905. 

 No. 7765, collected April 26, about a mile inside of Kern 

 canyon, Kern county, growing on steep slopes. This is one of 

 the most distinct of the recently described species, and our 

 plants are t^^pical, matching exactly the type in the herbarium 

 of the California Academy, collected by Brandegee near Cali- 

 ente. Our station is onlv a few miles from Caliente in an air 



