Sa)ila Barbara Fenis. j^J 



Lemmon's Ranch, in the mountains of San Luis Obispo County 

 1887, collected by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lemmon, long known as 

 zealous and very efficient laborers in various portions of the wide 

 field of West American botany. Their new home is well located 

 for botanical pursuits, as this and the following charming novelties 

 may indicate, both being from the same district, and comprising a 

 part only of their this year's store of good discoveries. 



EscHSCHOLTZiA Lemmoni, Greene, n. sp. 



Annual, 6-12 inches high, with numerous ascending branches 

 leafy below, hoary pubescent throughout, even to the capsules, 

 with short spreading white hairs ; leaves with elongated petioles; 

 peduncles stoutish, quadrangular, the earliest scapiform ; torus 

 urceolate, 3-4 lines long, nearly glabrous, constricted just below 

 the narrow^ erect hyaline border; calyptra ovate, long acuminate, 

 very conspicuously hairy ; petals orange-color, nearly or quite an 

 inch long. 



Mr. Lemmon, who, under the doctrine of the ' Botany of Cali- 

 fornia" that we had but two species of Eschscholtzia, long neglect- 

 ed the genus, has, at this late date, found a new species, which is 

 the most striking of them all in aspect. The long urceolate torus 

 which, at the time when the petals fall, completely encloses the 

 ovary, is the only smooth part of the plant, while the calyptra is 

 the most densely pubescent part, and being broad at base, while 

 the torus is narrowest next to it. the buds have the outline of 

 those of a rose or fuchsia. There are other interesting Eschschol- 

 tzias in Mr. Lemmon's collection requiring further study and 

 comparison. 



ChtENActis tenuifolia, var. Orcuttiana, Greene, n. var. 



Stouter than the type and somewhat depressed; leaves thickish 

 and more than once pinnatifid, the secondary lobes short and ob- 

 tuse ; flowering branches and involucre resinous-glandular; plant 

 flowering in summer, after the disappearance of the vernal type. 



Along the beaches about San Diego, collected by Orcutt, Cleve- 

 land, Parry and others, none of whom are willing to have it called 

 C. teiiuifolia. It will very possibly claim the rank of a species, 

 but, if so, on the strength of differences in the vegetative organs 

 and season of flowering only. It has no carpological character. 

 It is alluded to, as a form, in the Synoptical Flora. The least we 

 can do is to name it as a well marked variety. 



Edward L. Greene. 



SANTA BARBARA FERNS. 



[Read before the Santa Barbara Society of N.at. Hist.] 



Another addition to the list of ferns of Santa Barbara County 

 has been made by Mr. John Spence, who found it last year grow- 

 ing in the high mountains in the extreme northwestern portion of 

 the county. 



