with a fine, healthy, glaucous foliage, upon which repose hundreds of rich 
yellow flowers, unfolding their interior, of a dazzling brightness, under the 
influence of the sun, but closing at the approach of rain. They begin to 
open in the early part of June, and continue to appear during the greater 
part of the year. 
The species is perfectly hardy, and is propagated readily by seeds, which 
are produced in abundance. It is requisite to observe the following precau- 
tions in its management. The seeds should be sown in March, in small 
pots, and placed in a frame, with a little heat. When the young plants 
have acquired ten or twelve leaves each, and not before, they should be 
turned out of their pots in the open border, in the place in which it is 
intended that they should remain. Afterwards they cannot be readily 
transplanted, as their root becomes very fleshy and brittle, and bleeds 
copiously if broken, which must necessarily happen in removing a larger 
plant. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in 
October 1827. : 
Mr. Douglas has communicated the following note upon the subject of 
Eschscholtzia. ‘ During the famous expedition of Vancouver, it was found 
by Mr. Menzies in the Bay of Monterrey, in the autumn of 1792, and sub- 
sequently in the vicinity of other Presidios on the coast of.California. The 
former of these places being in 36° 35’ 45” north latitude, and its northern 
range 43°, gives it a habitat of 450 miles from north to south, never 
exceeding a degree of longitude from the coast. It is confined to open, 
dry, light, or sandy soils, flowering from June until destroyed by frost. 
It was considered by Dryander close upon Chelidonium, he not haying 
seen the fruit.” ; 
With regard to the natural affinity and structure of Eschscholtzia, we 
now beg to offer a remark or two. It was referred by all its original 
observers,—that is to say, by Mr. Menzies, who perceived its affinity to a 
poppy—by Dryander, as Mr. Douglas remarks —and by Chamisso, in the 
Horee Physicee Berolinenses,—to Papaveraceee. But M.Decandolle, unable 
to reconcile with that order the apparently perigynous insertion of its stamens, 
has placed it, with doubt, at the end of Loasee, a very different station: 
Yet if we consider the perfect accordance that it has with Papaveraceze in 
all other respects, its decompound leaves, yellow milky juice, deciduous 
calyx, 4 petals, with 4 parcels of stamina, and its Glaucium-like fruit, it is 
impossible to doubt its near relationship to these plants. Indeed we are of 
opinion, that there is nothing even in the insertion of the stamens which 
would justify its separation; for, in our view, the funnel-shaped fleshy 
process on which the calyx, petals, and stamens, are inserted, is neither a 
part of the calyx nor a form of disk, but rather a peculiar extension of the 
apex of the peduncle,—a manifest tendency to which is observable in Cheli- 
donium majus and Hypecoum grandiflorum. 
But the most remarkable point of structure in Eschscholtzia exists in the 
pistillum, which appears to us to point out distinctly the real nature of the 
same organ in Crucifere, and to prove that none of the explanations 
hitherto offered of the theoretical formation of the pistillum of Crucifere 
haye been true. In order to make this more apparent, it will be necessary 
to say something upon the structure of the Cruciferous pistillum. 
It is well known, that in regularly formed fruits the style or stigma 
universally and necessarily alternates with the placenta, for reasons which it 
