3 1903 



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The West 



Vol. XIV. No. 2. 



Jan. 1903. 



Whole No. 121. 



Established 1884. 



THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 



Published Monthly. 



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Number 365 Twenty-first Street, 



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WEST AMERICAN BOTANY. 

 PAPAVER LEMMONI Greene. 



"Near P. Calif ornicum, but a larger 

 and coarser plant, 1-3 ft. high; corolla 

 twice as large, 2-3 inches broad, appa- 

 rently of a deeper red, the base of the 

 petals green: capsule broader and 

 mere'ly obovate; stigmas 7-10, their 

 lower half sessile and radiant upon 

 the summit of the capsule, upper half 

 coherent one with another and forming 

 a conical apiculation. Hilly and moun- 

 tainous region of San Luis Obispo 

 county, California (J. G. Lemmon)." — 

 Greene, Pittonia 1:168. 

 DENDROMECON FLEXILE Greene. 



"Six to ten ft. high, tree-like, with 

 numerous more or less drooping 

 branches; leaves ovate-oblong to ellip- 

 tical, obtuse, often mucronulate, 2-5 

 inches long, fleshy and glaucous, 

 crowded on the branches, short-peti- 

 oled, their margins smaoth and revo- 

 lute; corolla rather pale yellow, 2 inch- 

 es in diameter, on a short pedicel; cap- 

 sules stout, curved, 3-5 inches long; 

 seed large, spherical, lightly scrobicu- 

 late, with a large amber colored car- 

 uncle. A common large shrub of the 

 island of Santa Cruz, very strikingly 

 unlike either the original mainland 

 species, or that of the neighboring is- 

 land of Santa Rosa. The large, pallid, 

 somewhat succulent leaves are so nu- 

 merous as to weigh down the branches, 

 and this gives the shrub a rather 

 graceful appearance; when dry they 

 are thinner and softer than in the oth- 

 er species. In their axils the leaf-buds 

 appear as solid, pyramidal, thorn-like 

 protuberances, another singular char- 

 acteristic." — Greene, Torr cl b 13: 216 

 (N 1886). 



Bull. Calif. Acad.Sei. i. 889:— Santa Cruz 



Island, 'on bushy hillsides everywhere; quite 



