He died at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 24, 

 1919, and we inscribe this Memorial upon the pages of our Records 

 as a tribute to our affection for his memory; a testimonial to his 

 gentle and loving character and our affliction for the loss of him 

 whom, no more we shall see. 



PETALODY OF THE STAMENS IN ESCHSCHOLTZIA 



By George L. Moxley 



Normally, Eschscholtzia has four petals and numerous stamens. 

 Occasionally, I have noticed one or two stamens metamorphosed into 

 petal-like forms, not fiabelliform like the normal petals, but usually 

 more or less oblanceolate or spatulate, and frequently twisted. And 

 it seemed very unusual for more than two to appear in a single 

 flower. On the 21st of May, however, I noticed a very "double" 

 flower along the sidewalk and picked it for a closer examination. 

 Each petal of what should have been the normal flower had two or 

 three of the attached stamens metamorphosed into petal-like forms. 

 They were not uniform in shape or size, some being almost of the 

 normal outline and others broadly spatulate, the margin in some 

 entire and in others more or less deeply lobed or incised. Another 

 abnormality of this flower was that one of the styles was divided 

 almost to the base and one of these segments again divided about 

 half its length. I returned later to see if other abnormal flowers 

 might be found in the plant but it had been cut down with the grass 

 along the walk. 



On June 23 rd I again passed that way and found that the plant 

 had thrown out new growth and there were three doubled flowers, 

 two of which were regularly so, in that there were within the four 

 normal flabelliform petals, and alternating with them, four cuneate- 

 oblong and somewhat lobed petals. The third flower had the four 

 normal petals and three very much incised ones, and the fourth 

 petaloid stamen narrowly linear-oblong and much twisted. The 

 petals of this last flower had fallen when I returned in the evening. 

 I have preserved the other two flowers and have removed the plant 

 to my yard for further observation, and in hope of obtaining seed 

 from it. 



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