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divisions somewhat closely approximate, the ultimate segments 
linear, tapering slightly at apex, yet blunt rather than acute: 
calyx thin, ł inch long, ovoid, acuminate: corolla apparently 
orange, 12 or 2 inches broad: stigmas several, 4 prominent and 
unequal supplemented by about as many very short ones: pod 
stout, 13 inches long; torus under it turbinate and short, with 
broad but thin spreading or deflexed rim: seeds not known. 
Hetch-Hetchy Valley, in the Sierra Nevada, Calif. F. T. Bio- 
letti, June, 1900. The type specimen is in Herb. Calif. Acad. 
Its leaves, torus and stigmas preclude my referring it to any 
known species; and it is from a locality at once elevated and 
greatly isolated. 
16. E. MARCIDA. Perennial, the several rigid and sparsely 
leafy stems stoutish, partly upright, partly ascending, 1 to 2 feet 
high; herbage glaucous, glabrous, or the petioles with few and 
Temote small teeth: leaves small, the basal on very long petioles ; 
Segments linear and cuneate-linear, not numerous, little diverg- 
ent, acute; calyx firm, hardly opaque, nearly spherical, or at 
most only very roundish ovoid, always with an abrupt stout yet 
evidently tapering point: corolla orange, only an inch wide: 
Stamens many, with short filaments cohering and also the petals 
adherent to the filaments, the whole falling away together: stig- 
mas 4, all short and stout but unequal: peduncles short and 
Stout, but pods more than 2 inches long and rather slender; 
torus under them small and nearly turbinate, with well developed 
but not broad coriaceous rim: seeds unknown. 
Var. MONTICOLA. Smaller than the type, with every similar 
habit and foliage, but petioles quite scabrous-ciliolate : calyx 
less rounded and larger, but with like abrupt taper-point : petals 
and stamens not cohering : pod larger ; torres scarcely different. 
The type of this interesting plant is from Knoxville, Napa 
Co., Calif. by C. F. Baker, May, 1903. When the specimen now 
in my herbarium was sent me for identification I called ita 
form of Æ. Doug/asti, and Mr. Baker has so distributed it; but 
it is now found entirely distinct, by its very different foliage, 
