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or 3 inches long, narrowly linear, acutish, callous-tipped, 
only very sparsely hairy and the hairs short: corolla 
cream-color, fully an inch broad, exactly rotate, all the 
petals rather narrowly obovate, or the 3 inner more nearly 
elliptical: stamens very many and much elongated, the 
anthers borne out beyond the stigmas; filaments of the 
outer series linear-cuneiform, deeply notched, the anthers 
sessile in the notch, the prominent lobes almost erect, only 
acutish, inner filaments much longer, very narrow, retuse 
under their anthers, all the latter elongated and narrow 
linear: carpels 16 or 18, short, moniliform, 7-jointed, 
glabrous, nearly smooth and even. ` 
Huron, Fresno Co., 24 March, 1893, T. S. Brandegee, the 
single but very good specimen seen being mounted on sheet 
n. 2800, Herb. Calif. Acad., along with a fragment of what 
I take to be P. anemonoides. 
47. P. AUSTRALIS. Small and subacaulescent, the leaves 
linear, but not very narrow, 1-nerved, often subfalcate, callous- 
tipped, very hirsute marginally with appressed rather than 
ciliate hairs: scapiform peduncles very slender, only sparsely 
hairy but the hairs long and soft: buds elongated-obovate; 
corolla ? inch broad, slightly turbinate at base, the obovate 
and elliptic-obovate petals all acutish, and also narrowed to 
a short but slender claw:. filaments almost exactly linear, 
the outer ones sharply truncate under the anthers, the inner 
fully equalling the petals and all deciduous, the immature 
carpels7 to10,rather strongly hirsute, not known in maturity. 
This is the most southerly member of the genus, as far 
as known, the rather immature specimens having been gath- 
ered at San Quentin Bay, Mexico (Territory of lower Cali- 
fornia) by Dr. Edw. Palmer in 1889, and distributed from 
U.S. Herb., under Palmer’s n. 600. 
48. P. verrcunpus. Slender, sparsely pilose, much 
