. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1544 ROMNETA RONDELETIA ROMN^YA (after the astronomer T. Romney Rob- inson, friend of T. Coulter, who discovered it about 1845). PapaveraceAE. The California Tree Poppy (Fig. 2142} is a somewhat shrubby plant with splen- did 6-petaled white tls. measuring 6 in. or more across. Botanically, the genus is unique,
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1544 ROMNETA RONDELETIA ROMN^YA (after the astronomer T. Romney Rob- inson, friend of T. Coulter, who discovered it about 1845). PapaveraceAE. The California Tree Poppy (Fig. 2142} is a somewhat shrubby plant with splen- did 6-petaled white tls. measuring 6 in. or more across. Botanically, the genus is unique, having only one spe- cies and being distinguished from the other members of the poppy family by the fact that the numerous stigmas are connate at the base into a little ring, and are diver- gent at the apex. It is one of the few long-known plants that has acquired no synonym. Generic characters: sepals 3, with a broad, membranous, dorsal wing; pet- als 6, all alike; stamens very numerous, free; filaments filiform bat thickened above; stigmas free: capsule 7-H-loculed, dehiscing to the middle, the valves separat- ing by their margins from the firm persistent placentas. CoTilteri, Harv. California Tree Poppy. Matilija Poppy. Lvs. glaucous, 3-5 in. long, pinnately cut: petals broadly obovate: seeds black, a line or less long. Gn. 13:129; 20:465; 29, pp. 207, 211; 40, p. 405; 55, p. 208; 56, p. 239; 57, p. 203. 10:353. 1877:252. :397. 19:314 (sup. Apr. 10, 1898). — Ever since 1889 and 1890, when it was one of the lead- ing novelties, the California Tree Poppy has been a much-talked-of plant, owing to its extraordinary beauty and the difficulties of cultivation. It has the largest flowers of any member of the poppy family, except pos- sibly Papaver orientale. Though not considered hardy in the eastern states, it has been successfully grown in the open in northern New Jersey. Romneya grows wild in California from San Diego to Santa Barbara county; also in Mexic
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