222 PITTONIA. 
Hore Physice, correct as to the impression it gives of th® 
habit of the plant when well grown, is altogether misleading 
as to the corolla; for this shows the petals as if rounded off 
to the round-obovate, and so spreading as to show open spaces 
between them, whereas in nature they are triangular flabelliform, 
overlapping one another in such wise that the corolla as a whole 
appears as an unbroken circle. In coloring, too, the plate is 
false, for the upper part of each petal is made orange-color, the 
lower part light-yellow, though in nature just the reverse of 
this is true. But in the dried specimens the whole petal is apt 
to turn to a kind of dull deep orange, and the distinction of 
color vanishes. 
2. E. maritima, Greene, Pitt.i, 60. Perennial, prostrate, 
more slender than the foregoing, repeatedly and quite exactly 
dichotomons, the stem, leaves, peduncles and calyx white with a 
dense bloom augmented by a fine papillose, or on the leaves flat- 
tened and lamelliform and altogether somewhat crystalline 
indument; leaves on all branches and branchlets small, their 
short ultimate segments acutish, imbricated even in maturity : 
peduncles short, in maturity only about equalling the 14 inch 
long pods; calyx 4 inch long, ovoid, scarcely apiculate, being 
obtuse at summit and surmounted by only a short blunt tip: 
corolla rotate, 14 inches broad; petals light-yellow, at base orange; 
filaments shorter than the oblong-linear anthers ; 4 stigmas very 
unequal; seed spherical, its reticulation not very definitely 
favose. 
Principal habitat the Island of San Miguel, off the coast of 
Santa Barbara Co., southern California, where it was collected 
by the writer in 1886. It was subsequently cultivated by him 
on the mainland far northward, retaining under the altered 
surroundings and in garden soil, all its characters, Until very 
recently I supposed it to be endemic on San Miguel; but now I 
find a specimen in the herbarium of Parke, Davis & Co., of 
‘Detroit, collected in June, 1885, by Rev. R. W. Summers, on 
sand hills near Peche Beach, near San Luis Obispo. This 
