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from Æ. crocea in being robust, rigid and branching and with 
smaller flowers, but exhibiting ashorter torus with broader rim 
than are seen in true Æ. rigida ; nor are they of more than half 
the height of the typical plant so named. Nevertheless, some 
old fragments by Xantus, from somewhere not far from Fort 
Tejon, preserved in U. S. Herb. appear to be of the genuine 
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E. rigida. : 
34. E. RECTA. Perennial, stem the first year solitary, after- 
wards several from the root, always rigidly erect, very stout, 
sparingly and fastigiately branched, 2 feet high, below the 
branching thick, subterete but strongly marked by from 5 to 9 
prominent whitish lines or angles: herbage glabrous, glaucous: 
leaves large, cut into many linear and very sligtly divergent 
segments, all acute except the middle one of each ultimate 
three, this always longer than the laterals, commonly dilated 
upward and obtuse: buds and flowers small for the plant ; calyx 
? inch long, with ovoid body and rather abrupt long and stout- 
ish apiculation : corolla golden-yellow if not even orange, 12 to 
2 inches broad in wide expansion : pod nearly 3 inches, stoutish, 
torus under it long and tubular-funnelform, with prominent 
not broad rim: seeds large, spheroidal, dark-colored, marked 
with a definite rather small reticulation. 
A rank middle Californian species of the plains of the 
interior as well as of the foothills bordering on them. It has 
formed a part of the Æ. Douglasti of my books, and I have 
sometimes authorized that name for specimens to be distributed. 
In its orange-colored condition of flower it is more likely to pass 
for Æ. crocea. The best specimens for foliage and flower, as 
well as for the rigidly erect habit, are Mr. Baker’s n. 2921 from 
near Elmira in the Sacramento Valley. His specimen of that 
as found in my herbarium I would name as the type, appre- 
hending, as I do, a possibility that my Æ. recta of this para- 
graph may in the future be proven an aggregate. The seeds 
are, however, described from a sheet in Herb. Calif. Acad. 
collected at Antioch, by Mr, or Mrs, Brandegee in 1889, It ig 
