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and compact: scape-like peduncles numer- 

 ous, inches high, terete, and rather stout: 

 corolla as in [E. tenuilblia], but of a deeper 

 yellow, seeds not reticulate, but deeply pitted 

 and of an ash-gray color. A most peculiar 

 species, collected in 1884, by Mrs. Uurran, on 

 the Mohave Desert. The seeds are remarka- 

 bly unlike those of any other known Esch- 

 scholtzia."— Ge Ca ac b 1:70 (7 Mr 1885). 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA MEXICAN A Greene. 



"Annual, smootn and glaucous : foliage less 

 finely dissected [than E. californica and E 

 peninsularis] : stems short: peduncles numer- 

 ous, stout and scape-like: petals an inch lor g, 

 yellow or cream color: torus short, obconical, 

 the outer margin a sub-cartilaginous ring, 

 the inner erect, scarious, with stout nerves: 

 seed globular, apiculate, with coarse but rath- 

 er faint reticulations — E. Californica, var. 

 parvula. Gray. PL Wright, 2.10. E. Doug- 

 lasii, Torr. Mex. Bound. 3.1; Hemsl. Biol. Cent. 

 Am. This plnnt ranges from tne region of 

 the upper Gila, in New Mexico, far south- 

 ward into Texas and adjacent Mexico, and is 

 apparently a very good species."— Ge Ca ac 

 b 1:69 (7 Mr 188')). 



A rank-growing Esehscboltz'a growing in 

 the Sun Rafael valley, Lower California, with 

 large reddish-orange colored flowers, was 

 doubtfully referred to this by Prof. Greene. 



E. LEMMONI Greene. 



"Annual, 6-1 /' high, with numerous 

 ascending branches, leafy below, hoarv 

 pubescent throughout, even to the cap 

 sules, with short spreading white haiis; 

 leaves with elongated petioles; pedun- 

 cles stoutish, quadrangular, the earliest 

 Bcapiform; torus urceolate, 3-4^ long, 

 nearly glabrous, constricted just below 

 the narrow, erect hyaline border; calyp- 

 tra ovate, long acuminate, very conspic- 

 uously hairy; petals orange-color, nearly 

 br quite an inch long." — Greene. West 

 Am Sci. iii, 157. Ag 1887. Mountains of 

 San Luis Obispo county. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA MODESTA Greene. 



'Annual, very sleuder and diffusely branch- 

 ing, aio 'thigh glabrous and in ide'r-itely glau- 

 c .us; lea ves - im II, vvi 1 h few & narrow segments: 

 pedin 1 i axillary, *tn inch long or more, terete & 

 -. < ■!■;• slender, nodding In the bud; bud 2 lines 

 |»ng, the i/erinanent portion (torus with no 

 rim, nearly as long as the broadly ovate calyp- 

 tia: corolln r otate-Hpre>iding, % inch bcoad; 

 petals obovate, not meeting, 1 im rounded apex 



erose- or simiate-toothed, or, in later flowers, 

 deeply 3 lobed, pale y; stamens 8 in 2 rows on 

 opposite sidesof the pistil, or, in lale fis, 4 only; 

 anthers V£ lhie long, on slender filaments aline 

 in length pod 2 inches long, narrow, the valves 

 thin: seeds globular, minute, reticnla'e; cotyl- 

 edons very narrowly oblanceolate, entire. Col- 

 lected by 8. B Parish in l Je 18h7 (No. 1951)— Ge 

 Httonia 1:169 '' 6 'a 8S8>. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA PARISHII Greene. 



"Annual, slender, less than 1° high, 

 glabrous and glaucous: stems simple or 

 sparingly branched: peduncles terete, 

 very slender: torus turbinate, no spread- 

 ing rim, the 2 margins similar and ap- 

 proximate: petals widely spreading, 

 broad and overlapping each other, ap- 

 parently light y. : fr. not seen."— Greene, 

 Bull. Cai. Acad. Sci., i. 183 (Aug. 29, 1885). 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA PENINSULARIS Gn. 



"Annual, smooth and glaucous, slender, 

 erect, much more branched that E, Cali- 

 fornica, with corollas of 1-3 the size and 

 more broadly campanulate: rim of torus 

 broader in proport'on, the inner margin 

 a very short, nerveless, hyaline ring; seed 

 slightly elongated and distinctly apiculate 

 at each end, reticulations less regularly 

 favose." — Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 

 68-9 (Mar. 7, 1885); 1. c. 183. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA CALIFORNICA Chm. 



The §> form; the . s plant is peninsula- 

 ris. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA MINUTIFLORA S. W 



Distinguished by i;s small Ms: e. 

 ESCHSCHOLTZIA RAMOSA Greene. 



Ge Torr el b 13: 217. Ca ac b 2: 389. Sant;i Cruz 

 & o nadalu pe Islands. 



FUMARIACEAE. 



Tender herbs, with watery and bland 

 juice, dissected compound leaves, & per- 

 fect irregular hypogynous fis with the 

 parts in twos, except the diadelphous 

 stamens, which are 6; ovary and capsule 

 i-celled wilh 2 parietal placenta?: seeds, 

 etc. as in Papaveraceee- 



CjieiiiiH DICENTRA Borkli. 



Corolla flattened, heart-shaped or 2- 

 spurred at the base. 

 DICENTRA CHRYSANTHA H. & A. 



Dielytra chrysantha H. & A. Bot Beech 320. 



Bikukulla chrysantha Cv 4:00. 



