By George Bentham, Esq. 



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Herba pusilla, ceespitosa. Caules brevissimi, dense foliosi. Folia linearia integer- 

 rima, amplexicaulia, 1-nervia. Pedunculi semipedales, erecti, uniflori, patentim pilosi. 



A smaller plant than the Platystemon and growing in closer 

 tufts, but otherwise resembling it very much in habit, though so 

 different in botanical character. The flowers are yellow, rather 

 smaller than those of Platystemon. 



Dendromecon. Sepala 2, ovata, caduca. Petala4. Stamina plurima. Filamenta fili- 

 formia. Antheree lineares. Stigmata 2, sessilia, brevia, crassiuscula. Capsula elongata, 

 siliquaeformis, 1-locularis, bivalvis, valvulis coriaceis duris a basi ad apicem dehiscenti- 

 bus. Placentae marginales, filiformes. Semina plurima, majuscula, pyriformia, leevia. 



D. riffidum. 



Fruticulus dense foliosus, rigidus, glaber. Folia lanceolata, acuta, denticulata, pen- 

 "ninervia, reticulata, rugosa, rigida. Pedunculi axillares, uniflori. 



A very remarkable plant in this order, on account of its shrubby 

 stem and coriaceous leaves and capsules. The flowers appear to be 

 yellow, and nearly as large as those of Papaver nudicaule. 



EsCHSCHOLTZlA CROCEA. 



E. caule ramoso folioso, foliorum segmentis linearibus, pedunculi cyatho infundi- 

 buliformi : limbo maximo dilatato, calyce longe acuminato. 



In general habit, foliage, and size of the flower, this new species 

 of Eschscholtzia closely resembles the E. californica, introduced by 

 Mr. Douglas on his first expedition, and now so generally admitted 

 to be one of the most beautiful additions to our hardy ornamental 

 plants. The present species, however, promises far to surpass even 

 that one in the rich orange colour of the petals. It appears to be 

 equally hardy, and, judging from the experience of a season, to 

 flower still more freely. It is distinguished botanically from E. 

 californica by the widely expanded limb of that curious appendage 

 of the peduncle beneath the insertion of the calyx which is charac- 

 teristic of the genus, and by the long attenuated point of the calyx. 

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