2 ~The West America ‘Seientist Vol. XIV. No. 2. Whole No. 124. . Established 1884. THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. Published Monthly. Price 10c a copy; $1 a year; $10 for life. Charles Russell Orcutt, Editor, Number 365 Twenty- -first Street, San ee SU ates Wise A. EXCHANGES. inserted free for sub- Brief seribers. ORCUTT, C. R.: San Diego, California: Shells, plants, etc., for books. Subscriptions or advertising space this magazine for books or specimens. Shells to exchange for shells. 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North American Papilionidae, Pieridae, Parnassus and Lycaenidae wanted in ex- change for showy Papilionidae from Ja-— notices in N. W., Ger- va. Butterflies, beetles, and other. in- sects in perfect condition, carefully named, for sale cheap. WEST AMERICAN BOTANY. PAPAVER LHEMMONI : Greene. “Near P. Californicum, but a larger and coarser plant, 1-3 ft. high; corolla twice as large, 2-3 inches broad, appa- rently of a deeper red, the base of the petals green: capsule broader and merely ovpovate; stigmas 7-10, their lower half sessile and radiant upon the summit of the capsule, upper half coherent one with another and forming a conical apiculation. Hilly and moun- tainous region of San Luis Obispo county, California (J. G. Lemmon).’’— Greene, Pittonia 1:168. DENDROMECON FLEXILE Greene. “Six to ten ft. high, tree-like, with numerous more or less drooping branches; leaves ovate-oblong to ellip- tical, obtuse, often) mucronulate, 2-5 inches long, fleshy and _ glaucous, crowded on the branches, short-peti- oled, their margins Smocth and revo- lute; corolla rather pale yellow, 2 inch- es in diameter, on a short pedicel; cap- sules stout, curved, 38-5 inches long; seed large, spherical, lightly scrobicu- late, with a large amber colored car- uncle. A common large shrub of the island of Santa Cruz, very strikingly unlike either the original mainland species, or that of the neighboring is- land of Santa Rosa. The large, pallid, somewhat succulent leaves are so nu- merous as to weigh down the branches, and this’ gives the shrub a rather graceful appearance; when dry they are thinner and softer than in the oth- er species. In their axils the leaf-buds appear as solid, pyramidal, thorn-like protuberances, another singular char- acteristic.’’—Greene, Torr cl b 13: 216 (N 1886). — Bull. Calif, Acad. Sci. i. 889:—Santa Cruz Island, ‘on bushy hillsides everywhere; quite II . The West American Scientist. —__ 12 plentiful on the northward stopeat no great distance from the shore.’ he 55 ESCHSCHOLTZ14 GLAUGA Ge. “Perennial, very Ueitibee erect, 2-4 ft. high, 5f a idosaty eymose and: some- times. distinctly, dichotomous inflor- escence: leaves mn. ll) ‘their ‘ Segments linear and little diverzent: torus with a narrow but manifest spreading rim: petals an inch long, with orange spot at base and commonly a narrow border of the same color at the truncate sum- mit, otherwise light yellow: seeds gio- bular, reticulated: cotyledons linear, cleft to the middle. On dry clayey hill- sides of the interior basin of Santa Cruz Island.’—Greene, Pittonia 1:45 (Mr 1887). ESCHSCHOLTZIA MARITIMA Ge. “Root perennial: stems stout and succulent, very leafy and dichotomous, 2-3 ft. long, wholly prostrate: herbage very glaucous and also white-puberu- lent: leaves dense, i. e., the spatulate- oblong obtuse segments numerous, short and crowded: torus with mani- fest rim spreading horizontally: calyp- tra about % inch long, oval, abruptly narrowed to a very short blunt or even retuse tip: corolla broad-campanulate; petals 10 lines long, lemon-yellow with a rhomboidal spot of orange at base: pod small: seed _ reticulate. About Point Harris on the northeastern part of the island of San Miguel, on clayey slopes near the sea; very plentiful.’— Greene, Pittonia 1:60. ARABIS PARISHII Wat. “Low and cespitose (2-4 in. high), very stellate-pubescent throughout, the simple slender stems from a much branched caudex: leaves entire, the lower numerous, linear-oblanceolate, 6 lines long or less, the cauline few, lin- ear, not articulate: fis rose-color, 3 or 4 lines long: pods glabrous, ascending on pedicels 2 or 3 lines long (including the elongated filiform style) by a line broad, attenuate. above; valves 1- nerved and veined: seeds somewhat 2-rowed, elliptical, narrowly winged. in Bear valley, San Bernardino mts., Cal., at 6,500 ft. alt. (Parish).’’—Am ac pr 22: 468. ARABIS PULCHRA Jones, “Perennial, canescent throughout with a fine stellate pubescence, the stems erect (a ft. high) from a branch- ing woody base: leaves entire, not ros- ulate at ‘base nor auriculate, the lower narrowly oblanceolate (1 or 2 in. long), the upper linear-lanceolate: fis usual- ly large (8-7 lines long), and deep rose- cclor, soon spreading or reflexed: pods pendent on pedicels 3 or 4 lines long, finely pubescent, 1144-2% in. long by 1% lines wide, the valves i1-nerved and veined, and _ stigma _ sessile: seeds small, in 2 rows, orbicular, winged.” —S. Watson, Am ac pr 22:468. Valleys of western Nevada to San Bernardino and San Diego counties, Cal. ARABIS PERENNANS Wat. “Perennial, with a usually branching and somewhat woody base, roughly stellate-pubescent or sometimes gla- brous above, about a foot high: lower leaves broadly spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, dentate or sinuate, the petioles sometimes ciliate, the cauline linear-oblong, auriculate, mostly en- tire. fls small, often pale: pods divari- cately spreading or reflexed, usually curved, glabrous, 1 or 2 in. long by a line broad or less, obtuse or acutish, the small stigma sessile: seeds orbicu- lar, very narrowly margined.’’—S. Watson, Am ac pr 22:467. Northern Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and the San Bernardino mts, Cal. ARABIS BECKWITHI1 Wat. “Resembling A. subpinnatifida, bien- nial, hoary with a fine dense stellate pubescence: stem erect, a span high: leaves entire, an inch long or less, the radical oblanceolate, the cauline lan- ceolate, auriculate: fils rose-color, 3-6 lines long: pods, glabrous (or slightly pubescent when young), spreading and arcuate, 24% in. long by a line wide, acutish, the stigma sessile: seeds broadly elliptical.’—Am ac pr 22:467. Quartz mts., Nevada. San Bernardino mts., Cal. (Parish 1302). THYSANOCARPUS CONCHULIFERUS “Glabrous and glaucous, 3-10 inches high, rather stout and branching: up- permost leaves remotely toothed, the middle and lower as remotely linear- lobed (the lobes straight and divari- cate), all except the lowest auriculate- clasping: racemes short and dense: petals spatulate-oblong, nearly 1% lines long, light purple: samara 1% lines long, cymbiform, the somewhat conduplicate margin parted into spat- 13 ulate lobes, or these coherent above, leaving narrowly oblong perforations: style % line long beyond the margin of the fruit: pedicels 4% inch long, firm but recurved.’’—Greene, Pittonia 1:31 (amended description). “Common on mossy shelves and erevices of the high rocky summits and northward slopes of Santa Cruz Island.’’—Greene, Torr cl b 13:218 (N 1886, with earliest description). os Established 1882 The ORCUTT SEED and PLANT Com- pany, San Diego, California. Collectors, Importers, and Growers. Wholesale and Retail. 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