240 PITTONIA. 
Ventura County, by A. D. E. Elmer in 1902. It is remarkable 
for the uniformly considerable breadth of its leaf-segments 
and the small number of them. Quite the same, I think, are 
two sheets in my own herbarium grown at Biltmore, in North 
Carolina, in 1898, from seeds that came from the interior of 
Monterey Co., which specimens were sent me by Mr. Beadle for 
identification. At that time holding, as in my books, the 
opinion that all these very glaucous and small-flowered peren- 
nials of the interior of California were forms of Æ. Doug/asit, I 
returned that name to Mr. Beadle, who now informs me that he 
distributed specimens from his garden, under that name. There 
is also in my collection a good sheet communicated to me years — 
since by Mr. Lemmon. These specimens were gathered by 
himself somewhere in San Luis Obispo Co. in 1887. In these 
the cut of the foliage is the same, though the ultimate seg- 
ments are much narrower; and it may possibly turn out that 
even Æ, absinthitfolia is an aggregate. It is unfortunate that no 
seeds of the plant are to be found in the herbaria. 
27. E. NITROPHILA. Perennial, with firmly erect but not 
stout branches, these sparingly leafy and sparsely flowering, 8 
to 18 inches high, herbage glabrous, very glaucous: leaves 
small, narrow and compact showing very narrow sinuses or none 
between the linear and linear-cuneiform acute segments : calyx 
ł inch long or more, thin, ovoid, abruptly short-pointed : torus- 
rim at flowering time and before thin, whitish, almost translu- 
cent, afterwards becoming subcoriaceous under the pods, but 
still whitish : corolla orange, widely expanding, 1 to 14 inches 
wide: pods 2 inches long or more: seeds unknown. 
An elegant, though not showy species, collected only by Mr. 
Parish, the locality alkaline flats in Bear Valley of the San 
Bernardino Mountains, at an altitude of 2000 feet or somewhat 
less. The thin torus-rim, at first white and almost hyaline, is 
an excellent character; and the foliage in some specimens is 
almost white with bloom. 
