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slender, only 1} inches long; torus almost cylindric though 
short, its deflexed outer rim and erect inner margin of about 
equal depth. 
The type of this is one fine specimen in Herb. Calif. Acad., 
collected on Snow Mountain, Lake Co., Calif., 22 June, 1891, 
by Mr. Brandegee. 
22, E. LEPTANDRA, Greene, Pitt. i, 170. Perennial, the one 
or more stout scarcely striate stems a foot high or more, firmly 
erect, only somewhat paniculately branched, floriferous mainly 
above the middle, glabrous, very glaucous: leaves not large, nor 
their segments many, these little divergent, the ultimate threes 
nearly equal but the middle one broader, all abruptly acutish : 
calyx firm and opaque, ovoid, short-apiculate, the whole about + 
Inch long: corolla 1} inches broad, lemon-yellow with orange, — 
Spot at base of petals: anthers very long; the filaments short, 
slender-subulate : rigid pods about 3 inches long; outer torus- 
mm reduced and turgid, inner margin about as prominent, erect 
and strongly nerved: seeds rather large, spherical or slightly 
elongated, covered with an olive-green thin coat and a not very 
definitely favose reticulation. 
Confined to the desert regions of northwestern Nevada and 
adjacent eastern California, first collected by Mr. Sonne at Verdi, 
subsequently at other stations in the same region by M. E. Jones 
and T. S. Brandegee, also by the latter at Milford, across the 
boundary of California, in Lassen County. 
23. E. CONFINIS. Size and general habit of the last, though 
More freely branching and profusely flowering ; herbage equally 
glaucous, but petioles and petiolules remotely and obsoletely sca- 
brous-denticulate on the margin: segments of foliage linear, 
acutish: calyx thin and diaphanous, round-ovoid, little more 
than 3 inch long, very abruptly and briefly apiculate: corolla 
(late summer specimens) ł inch broad, orange-color; stamens 
long in proportion, half-equalling the petals: stigmas 4, very 
short, unequal: pod 1} inches long, torus under it with narrow 
