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than usually sharp and prominent whitish angles, the whole 
plant glabrous: very glaucous, leaf as a whole open, the divisions 
spreading and separated from each other by a marked interval, 
but themselves cut into rather closely approximate linear acute 
segments: calyx an inch long, narrowly almost conical, tapering 
gradually from a little above the base to the apex, the apiculation 
scarcely’ differentiated: corolla of summer flowers (the earlier 
unknown) 14 inches broad, the merely cuneate-obovate petals 
scarcely meeting at their margins: stamens many, on short sub- 
ulate purple-tipped filaments: stigmas 4, unequal: pods 24 
inches long, not stout; torus under them short-tubular, with 
conspicuous though not wide coriaceous rim,: seeds not known. 
This fine species, well marked in this group by its long slender 
buds, is based on two sheets in U. S. Herb. from Round Valley, 
Mendocino Co., Calif., by Mr. V. K. Chesnut; one gathered 
there in 1897, the other in 1898 ; fragments of what may be the 
same species, however, in the same herbarium, from Applegate, 
Placer Co., June, 1899, by Mrs. Helen Smith ; this locality not 
far removed from the other, though of less altitude. 
26. E. ABSINTHIIFOLIA. Perennial, glabrous throughout and 
very glaucous, 14 to 2 feet high, branched from the base or 
near it: leaves little dissected, the cuneiform divisions not 
broad, the segments all broadly linear, acute, moderately diver- 
gent: peduncles long and slender, the flowers small for the 
Plant: calyx opaque, 4 inch long, ovoid or round-ovoid with 
Somewhat abrupt rather short apiculation: corolla golden- 
Yellow, about 1 inch broad: stamens very many, filaments of 
the outer series not only short, and triangular-subulate but 
apparently connate at the very base, the inner narrower and longer: 
tigmas 4, two longer and stout, two very short and slender: 
Pods about 24 inches long; torus under them tubular-funnelform, 
the rim well developed but thinnish : seeds not seen. 
Taking the place, in the more northerly part of southern 
California, which its ally, Æ. confinis, holds at the North, the 
Species is typical on sheet 466,007 in U. S. Herb. as collected in 
