236 PITTONIA. 
lines long: campanulate corolla about 13 inches wide, deep- 
yellow: stamens many, with short liguliform filaments blackish 
above the middle: stigmas 4, unequal: pods stout, 24 inches 
long; torus-rim thickish, narrow: seeds not seen. 
Fields and waysides about Stanford University, California, 1 
Dec. 1901, C. F. Baker, n. 174, the type in my herbarium ; also 
in U.S. Herb. under the same number, and both under the 
name of Æ. ambigua, The printed labels say, “These specimens 
are typical ambigua,” a pronouncement which I dare say was 
made by my authorization; but it is a serious mistake, none the 
less. This and Æ. ambigua are not closely allied. In habit, 
foliage, pubescence, etc., they are widely different; and I must 
have given that determination of this plant without comparing 
it with true ambigua. 
In Herb. Calif, Acad. are two sheets from La Honda, not far 
distant from Mr. Baker’s locality, though on the other side of 
the coast hills, by Mr. Brandegee, which have the minute 
granular roughness of this species, but a broader torus-rim. 
From Santa Clara Co., in the same region, Mr. Heller has 
distributed what may also be another state of the same new 
species, a plant with but faint traces of the roughness e 
petioles. Itis his n. 750l,as in U. S. Herb., and with him 
purports to be “Æ. glauca, Greene,” strangely. 
21. E. srRIoTa. Perennial, with multicipitous crown of the 
root supporting many slender and somewhat wiry very erect 
purple stems a foot high, these sparingly or not at all branched 
and sparsely leafy ; petioles of basal leaves long, slender, erect, 
their margins remotely and minutely scabrous-denticulate, the 
plant otherwise glabrous, glaucous: leaves small, with rather 
few acutish segments all linear, little divergent: calyx ł me 
long, subconic-oyoid with short and smal] apiculation, in tex- 
ture extremely thin, or at least wholly yellow just before 
falling: corolla golden-yellow, well expanded, 14 inches wide : 
stamens many, with long anthers on short broadly subulate 
filaments: stigmas 4, only slightly unequal: pods small and 
