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locality is far northward of San Miguel, and twice as far distant 
from it as are the shores of Santa Barbara Co.; and perhaps a 
knowledge of oceanic currents of the coast would explain 
whether the species was derived to the mainland shore from the 
island, or to the island from the mainland. 
On Santa Rosa Island, in 1888, Mr. Brandegee obtained belated 
summer material of what I at first thought would be Æ. mari- 
tima; but a careful inspection of the fragment seen in Herb. 
Calif. Acad. reveals not only a perfectly glabrous herbage, but, 
what is more significant, buds with an abrupt and very prom- 
inent apiculation, as also a torus-rim much narrower than in 
any other member of the group. These fragments must, I 
think, be received as indicating for Santa Rosa its own peculiar 
species of this affinity; and that is just what our knowledge of 
the insular flora as a whole would lead us to expect. 
3. E. MENZIESIANA. Æ. Caltfornica, Sweet, Brit. Fl, Gard. iii. 
t. 265, not of Chamisso. Perennial, very glaucous, either glab- 
Tous or with more or less of a fine and sharp rather than coarse 
and papillese pubescence on branches and calyx; plant false-dich- 
otomous and nearly prostrate: foliage very copious but leaves 
small and compact, their segments obovate and cuneate-obovate, 
very broad, often distinctly imbricated : peduncles short ; calyx 
subconic-ovoid, abruptly tapering at apex, not exactly apiculate: 
corolla 14 inches broad, widely expanding, petals yellow with 
orange base ; torus-rim rather ample: pod 14 inches long: seeds 
small, spherical, yellowish-granulate under a lens, the strong 
reticulation distinctly favose. 
Var. RECEDENS, Of lax habit, the stems ascending; more 
densely fine-pubescent throughout, even to the growing ovaries 
and pods : leaves with long and narrow unimbricated spatulate- 
linear and linear segments: calyx less tapering and with more 
Pronounced apiculation: seeds unknown. 
Var. ANEMOPHILA. Stouter than the type, equally diffuse 
and glaucous but glabrous throughout: leaf-segments narrow as 
in the last variety : calyx ovoid and with an abrupt and rather 
