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SARRACENIACEAE. 



DARLINGTON 1A CALIFORNICA Torrey 



'Calf s bead,' a striking perennial of curious 

 aspect, the only representative of the family in 

 t'alif. Of a gieenish yellow hue, bearnga 



nodding purplish fl. One of the Pitcher plants, 

 noted for its alluring insects to their death 



PAPAVERACEAE. 



PAPAVER CALIFORNICUM Gray. 

 PAPAVER HETEROPHYLLUM Greene. 

 PAPAVER LEMMONI Greene. 

 PAPAVER HBTE ROPHYLL.tr .M Ge. 



Genus PLATYSTEBION Bentliani. 



PLATYSTEMON CRINITUS Ge. 



'Subacaulesoent, the fol-i ige, scapifirm ped- 

 uncles, & the calyx densely ennitc-hirsute wi'ih 

 w soft spreading hairs 3 or 4 lines long: fl buds 

 exactly globose: corolla an inch broad, t.' e pet- 

 als deep gr>enish y, marcescent-persistent: 

 stamens innumerable: filaments widely dila- 

 te!: carpels many, the short lorulose p"ds' 

 scarcely longer than the persistent linear stig- 

 mas. '-G* pitt 2 13. Kern county 



CANBYA CANDIDA Parry. 



Scarce an inch high, densely branched, the 

 somewhat fleshy leaver & short branches close- 

 ly crowded, lis w, petals 2 lines ion «,; named in 

 honor of William M. Canny or mj . GAmao- 

 pr 2:51 t 1 (27 D 1876) Wat hot c a 2 429. he 55 



Genus ROMNEYA Harvey. 



ROMN.EYA COULTERI Harvey. The Giant, 

 white flowering, bush poppy. 



Half-hardy shrub, 6-15 it. high, branching 

 and flexuons, woody at base: leaves glaucous, 

 thickish, petioled, 8-5 in. long, the lower ones 

 pirinatifid, upper ones pinnately toothed; 

 petioles and margins often sparingly ciliate 

 with rigid spinose bristles: the magnificent 

 wax-like lis. 6-9 in. across; petals broadly 

 obovate : filaments % in. long, bright yellow, 

 purple at base : capsule oblong. 1-2 in. long," 

 obscurely many angled, hispid with appress- 

 ed bristles and crowned with the persisteni 

 stigmas: seeds black, a line or less long. Ma- 

 tilija poppy, named in honor of Dr. T. Rom- 

 wey Robinson, a noted astronomer, he 55 



Genus PLATYSTIGMA 



(entliani. 



PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUS Bnth. PLATYSTIGMA CALIFORNICUM B.-H. 



Slender branching annual, 2-12 in high, vil- 

 lous with spreading hairs: leaves 3-4 in. long, 

 sessile or clasping, broadly linear, obtuse: ped- 

 uncles 3-8 i ,. long, erect: sepals vi lous: pe'a^s 

 de Late sulphur yellow, shading to orange in 

 the center, 3-6 lines long: carpels 6-25, aggrega- 

 ted int ) an oblong head, smooth or somewhat 

 hiiry, 5-1 lines long, beaked with the linear 

 persistent, stigmas the 1-seeded divisions a line 

 long: seeds smooth. Cal e I 'Cream-cups' by the 

 children Souther i tbah, Ariz na, Mehdoc no 

 county to San ''iesro, & p.ajn Calif, Roo.or.ro). 

 PLATYSTEMON DENTICULATUS Gne. 

 Genms DENDROMECON Bentnam. 



DENDROMECON FLEXILE Greene. 



Greene Bui .Torrey club, xiii. 21.6. 



Bull. Calif. Acad, Sci i, 389: -Santa Cruz 



Island, 'on bushy hillsides everywhere: quite 

 plentiful on the northward s'ope at no great 

 els anee from fie shore ' he55 



DENDROMECON HARFORDII Kellogg. 



-•PL AT* STIGMA DENTICUti^TJAJ Greene. 



Greene Bull. T-.-ney Club, xiii. 218. 



Bu i. Calif. Acad. Sci.i. 389. My. 28, 1887:. 



tt anta ' ru ■ Isi-nd. ho 55. 

 PLATYSTIGMA LINEARE Benth. 



Genus MECOIOPSIS Vig-uier. 



M. T1ETEROPMYM-A B nth 



MECONELLA DENTICULATA Greene. 



"3-10' high: radical leaves entire, the 

 laminal portion rhombic-ovate, acutish: 

 cauline spatulate to linear, obtuse, sharp- 

 ly denticulate: petals narrowly oblong, 2" 

 long: stamens 6-9. Temecula Canon, north 

 of San Luis Rey, in San Diego county, 

 Cal., March 27, 1SS5, by the writer."— 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., ii. 59 (Mar. 

 6, 1886). 



Genius ARGEMONE Linnaeus. 



ARGEMONE CORYMBOSA Greene. 

 ARGEMONE HISPIDA A. Gray. 

 Is A platyceras L. & C. 



Linn. 



DENDROMECON RIGIDUM Benth. 



Shrub 2-8 fc. high, numerous slender ARGEMONE MEXICANA 

 branches, baric whitish: leaves ovate to lin- 

 ear-lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, very acute or mu- 

 cronate, sessile or nearly so; twisted upon the 

 base so as to become vertical, reticulately 

 veined, margin rough or denticulate : flowers 

 bright yellow, 1-3 in. in cliam. on pedicels 1-4 

 in. long: capsules curved, attenuate above 

 into the short stout style, l%-2% in. long: 

 seeds V/, lines long. 



ARGEMONE PLATYCERAS L. & O. 

 Genus ESCHSCHOLTZIA Chain. 



ESCIISCHO LTZI A GL A.TJQA Ge. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA MARIT1MA Ge. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA CAESPITOSA Bth. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA GLYPTOSPERM A Ge. 



"Wholly glabrous and very glaucous: stems 

 very short: leaves much dissected, but shoit 



