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SuUer counly. It grew in scattered tufts here and there among- 

 the grass, the yellow flowers resembling some of the evenings 

 primroses. 



Meconopsis HETEROPHYLLA Benth. Trans, Hort. Soc. II. 1: 

 40. 1835. 



Papazer hcterophylliim Greene, Pittonia, 1: 168. 1888. 



No. 7599, collected April 6, along ravines on the rising 

 ground back of Kern City, Kern county. In this form the flow- 

 ers are small, i cm. long, barely exceeding the ovary, the petals 

 red with dark purple, almost black base; peduncles erect when 

 in flower; capsule narrowly obovoid, very gradually narrowed to 

 the base. It is not uncommon about Rakersfield. 



Meconopsis CRASSiFOLiA Keuth. Traus. Hort. Soc. II. 1: 40. 



^835- 

 No. 7766, collected April 26, about a mile within Kern 

 canyon, Kern county, growing on steep northerly slopes. The 

 flowers of this are also red with a dark eye, but inclined to nod, 

 and are large, fully 4 cm. in diameter. The capsule is broadly 

 obovoid, suddenly narrowed to the base. That this plant is dis- 

 tinct from 7599, seems evident, but wdiether crassifolia is dis- 

 tinct from heterophylia is an open question. A difference in 

 leaf outline is about the only point brought out iu the descrip- 

 tion, and Bentham states that "the flow-ers of both are of an 

 orange red, about the size of those of Papaver Argemone." 



FUMAHIACEAE 



B1CUCUIJ.A FORMOSA (Audr.) How^ell, Fl. N. W. Am. 2)},- 1897. 



Fmnaria formosa Andr. Bot. Rep. Q: pi. jgj. 1800. 



Corydalis forniosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 462. 1S14. 



Dic/ylra forjNosa DC. Syst. 2: 109. 1S21. 



CapTiorchis formosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 15. 1891. 



No. 8021, collected June 13, near Shasta Springs, Siskiyou 

 county, growing in wet places along the railroad. It usually 

 grows in colonies, the ]~)lants crowded, and while noted at seve- 

 ral places it does not seem to l^e common in that region. 



