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27. P. crrnirus, Greene, Pitt. ii. 13. Stout and sub- 
acaulescent, the leafy stems very short but the whole plant 
6 to 10 inches high, densely crinite-hirsute with soft hairs 
3 or 4 lines long: buds globose, but appearing like a ball 
of soft silky hair: corolla an inch broad, rotate, the mass 
of stamens very thick and dense, the outer much shorter 
than the others, as well as broader, the anther sessile in a 
rather sharp notch between two manifest acute or at least 
acutish teeth, the inner filaments much narrower, usually 
only sharply truncate: carpels about 16, short, the semi- 
niferous part completely invested by the persistent petals 
and stamens, strongly constricted, about 6-jointed, very 
fragile, the ovoid joints with thin pale pericarp traversed 
by a delicate midnerve and a few more accentuated yet not 
perfectly continuous wrinkles. 
This excellent species, now that the real characters of 
species in the genus have been investigated, is found to have 
strong marks that were neither adverted to nor even seen 
` at the first. Though described originally from material of 
my own collecting near Thachapi, it seems to have been 
gathered earlier in the same year, though badly preserved, 
by either Mr. or Mrs. Brandegee, somewhere in the same 
region. If I am right in referring them to this species, some 
specimens collected by Mr. Parish at Cajon Pass in San 
Bernardino Co. in May, 1882, are the oldest extant in the 
herbaria. These though strongly hirsute are less so than the 
others, but, as they were taken when in full flower, and while 
the filaments were at their best, their sharply notched char- 
acter is more manifest than in the old and withered originals. 
Coville & Funstons’ n. 1193 of the Death Valley Expedition, 
in so far as I have seen the material, is to be referred here; 
though in the Calif. Acad. sheet the carpels are delicately 
and sparsely pilose, while in that in U.S. Herb. all are 
glabrous, and some effete and not even torulose. The outer 
