HE 



THE 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 



Eschsclioltzia Califnrnicn. 



j)i'ofane manner in which his 

 name would be uttered and 

 execrated for its inherent ugli- 

 ness, and the perversity of 

 writers and printers in spelling 

 itj could never by any chance 

 have occurred to Dr. Esch- 

 scholtz, happy in the midst of 

 his flowers. Peace to his dust, 

 honour to his memory, and may 

 his name, as having a place in 

 the roll of devotees of the god- 

 dess Flora, be henceforth and 

 for ever spelt correctly. 



This is a curious and in- 

 teresting plant, and so nearly 

 related to the genus papaver, 

 that it may with propriety be 

 called the yellow Californian poppy. The leaves are of a 

 glaucous green, and much divided into narrow linear seg- 

 ments. The flower-bud is an elongated spiral cone, covered 

 with an extinguisher-like calyx, which is pushed off up- 

 wards as the petals expand, and the flower rests on a fleshy 



