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2. P. heterophyllum (Benth.) Greene. Wind Poppy. Plants 4.3 to 
5.7 dm. high; leaves pinnate or pinnately cleft, the segments varying 
from oval to linear, and variously cleft or entire; petals broadly obovate 
with wedge-shaped base, brick-red with a dark spot at base, 1.2 to 2.4 
cm. long ; pod clavate-obovate.—Hills and fields. 
6. ESCHSCHOLTZIA Cham. 
Herbs with ternately dissected mostly basal leaves and yellow flowers 
on long peduncles. Receptacle excavated or hollowed, forming a top¬ 
shaped dilation about the base of the pistil. Petals 4. Stamens numer¬ 
ous. Pod 2-valved. (Dr. J. F. Eschscholtz, college friend of Adelbert 
von Chamisso, German poet and naturalist, and his companion on Kotze¬ 
bue’s scientific voyage around the world.) 
Perennial; flowers large; receptacle (torus) with a collar-like rim..l. E. californica. 
Annual; flowers smaller; receptacle (torus) without rim or nearly so. 
Seeds strongly muricate, i.e. bur-like ; leaf divisions rather few....2. E. lobbii. 
Seeds not muricate; leaf divisions numerous.3. E. caespitosa. 
1. E. californica Cham. California Poppy. Erect or diffuse, the 
stems 1.4 to 5.7 dm. long; flowers commonly on long stalks; petals fan¬ 
shaped, 1.2 to 4.8 cm. long, deep orange to straw-color; spreading rim of 
the receptacle consnicuous in the soring flowering, reduced in the sum¬ 
mer and autumn.—Valleys and low hills everywhere. 
2. E. lobbii Greene. P'rying Pans. Scapose, 9.6 to 19 cm. high, the 
leaves in a basal tuft; petals light yellow, 6 to 12 mm. long; seeds strong¬ 
ly muricate with flattened processes.—Sterile gravelly or clay foothills 
and rolling valley plains of the Great Valley. 
3. E. caespitosa Benth. Stems mostly slender; flower-stalks 7 to 19 
cm. long, much exceeding the leaves; receptacle short-tubular, without 
spreading rim; petals 1.2 to 2.4 cm. long; seeds reticulate.—Canon sides. 
FUMARIACEAE. FUMITORY FAMILY 
Ours glabrous perennial herbs with alternate compound dissected 
leaves. Flowers perfect, irregular. Sepals 2, small and scale-like. Petals 
4, in 2 dissimilar pairs, the outer large, inner pair narrower, carinate or 
crested on the back, cohering by the callous apex and covering the anthers 
and stigma. Stamens in 2 sets of 3 each, placed opposite the outer petals, 
the filaments of each set usually united. Ovary superior. Capsule 
1-celled.—Species about 225, all continents except Australia and Africa. 
1. DICENTRA Bernh. 
Flowers in panicles or racemes or solitary. Corolla flattened, cordate 
at base. (Greek dis, twice and kentron, a spur, some species 2-spurred.) 
1. D. chrysantha (H. & A.) Walp. Golden Ear-drops. Stems stiff, 
coarse, leafy, 6 to 15 dm. high; leaves bipinnate, the division cleft into 
narrow lobes; flowers yellow, erect, in a large racemose panicle; petals 
distinct, 1.2 to 1.4 cm. long.—High dry ridges, inner ranges. 
2. D. formosa (Andr.) DC. Bleeding Heart. Stems naked, scape¬ 
like, 2 to 4,5 dm. high; leaves biternately compound, the divisions incisely 
cleft or pinnatifid; flowers rose-purple, nodding, borne in racemes; petals 
united to above the middle, 1.4 to 1.8 cm. long.—Shady woods. 
