POPPY FAMILY 



Bloodroot is easily cultivated, blooms with the hepaticas, and 

 makes a beautiful plant for the garden, open woods, lawn, or 

 park. »Late in the season the leaves increase very much in size. 



CALIFORNIA POPPY. COPA-DE-ORO 



EschschoUzia calif 6rnica. 



Eschsckolizia, in honor of Eschscholz, the surgeon on the Rurik and 

 friend of Chamisso, who named the plant Copa-de-oro, Cups of 

 gold. 



A perennial herb, best treated as an annual, now appearing in many 

 colors. ' 



Stem. — Twelve to eighteen inches high and branching. 



Leaves.— Mteinnte, finely dissected, gray-green, glaucous. 



Flowers. — Two or three inches across, usually orange and yellow, but 

 ranging from that to white. Top of the peduncle enlarged into a cup- 

 shaped disk, upon the upper inner surface of which are borne the calyx, 

 corolla, and stamens. 



Calyx. — A pointed green cap of two sepals falling early. 



Petals. — Four. 



Stamens. — Many; filaments short; anthers long. 



Ovary. — One-celled; style short; stigmas three to six, unequal. 



Capsule. — Cylindrical, ten-nerved, two or three inches long. 



The early Spanish explorers sailing back and forth along the 

 Califomian coast noted the flame of the poppies upon the hill- 

 sides coming down to the sea, and called the coast the Land of 

 Fire, "sacred to San Pascual," they said, "since his altar-cloth 

 is spread upon all its hills." Later, when the Russian expedition 

 of 1815, under Kotzebue, sailed northward exploring the coast, the 

 countless millions of golden cups again won the notice and ad- 

 miration of the visitors, and Chamisso, the naturalist of the ex- 

 pedition, in reporting the plant, gave it the name of the surgeon of 

 the expedition, Eschscholz, and EschschoUzia it remains. The 

 name seems unfortunate, as it is one that will never be spoken 

 trippingly on an English tongue, though really more appalling to 



