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28. E. PROCERA. Perennial, erect, stoutish, 2 to 3 feet high, 
the branches rather few and slender; herbage glabrous, glau- 
cous; petioles of longest basal leaves often 5 to 7 inches long; 
the blade of few long, little divergent, mainly linear segments, 
but the ultimates spatulate-linear, at the otherwise obtuse apex 
very distinctly mucronulate: calyx little more than # inch long, 
ovate-conical with very short taper point: corolla small for the 
plant, hardly 14 inches wide, yellow: pods slender, 3 inches 
long or more ; torus under them short-funnelform, with quite 
narrow coriaceous deflexed rim. 
Foothills of the Sierra Nevada, at an altitude of about 2500 
feet, southward, near Kernville, Calif., 13 May, 1891, T. 8. 
Brandegee ; the types two good sheets in Herb. Calif. Acad. 
29. E. crocna, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 2 Ser. i. 407, Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. t. 1677; Greene, Fl. Fr. 285, and Man. 11. Stoutish, 
upright, a foot high more or less, sparingly branched and few- 
flowered ; herbage glabrous, scarcely glaucescent, leaves copious 
and large, mostly from the base and long-petioled, their very 
numerous segments nearly linear, the larger ultimates dilated 
upwards, all acutish: calyx long-conical, 1 to 14 inches long, 
rather opaque: deep-orange petals 14 to 2 inches long, never 
Widely expanding: filaments short, blackish except at base: 
stigmas 4, unequal, neither pair very long: torus-rim $ to 7 
inch broad : pods large and stout, commonly 3 or 4 inches long; 
seeds large, spherical, rather lightly favose-reticulate. 
Var. Lonaissima. Taller than the type, less robust: calyx 
slender-conical, but ending in a distinct terete apiculation more 
than 4 inch long, the whole calyptra 2 inches long: orange 
Corolla not large in proportion. 
ar. APIIFOLIA. Stout as the type, corollas as large; calyx 
not seen: herbage more glaucescent; segments of the leaves 
altogether broader, oblong and oblong-linear, acutish, more 
ivergent. 
Typical Æ. croceais at home only among the valleys and 
hillsides of the coast ranges of mountains in middle Qalifornia, 
