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very seldom if ever of more than annual duration. Well 
marked also by its small golden-yellow or almost orange 
corollas, and especially by its conical calyx of thin texture. 
In its early spring state, with few flowers, one on a long and 
scapiform peduncle, it is seldom collected. I find it only on 
Sheet 14,050 of Herb. Calif. Acad. The collector, Miss East- 
wood, gives no date for this interesting stage of its flowering, 
which, as far south as San Diego must be very early. 
E. Clevelandi is not to be confused with another annual, 
belonging to the uplands about San Diego, which is a separate 
affair, once referred by me, erroneously, to Æ. peninsularis. 
40. E. AUSTRALIS. Allied to Æ. Clevelandi, apparently as 
large and as widely spreading but with comparatively few leaves, 
the stout branches largely naked, with smallish leaves rather 
more glaucous: calyx very different, ovate-conical, and with a 
distinct and not short apiculation; torus both larger and with 
broader rim: corolla the same as in Æ. Clevelandi: pod and 
Seeds not seen, 
Confined to shores of the Lower Californian peninsula below 
Ensenada, the type from San Quentin by Dr. Edward Palmer, on 
sheet n. 2534 Herb. Calif. Acad. 
41. E. BICORNUTA. Annual, with many ascending branches 
from the base all about foot high and with obvious false dicho- 
tomy as to the many secondary branches and peduncles ; herb- 
age glabrous; the stems and branches unusually smooth and 
free from angles or striæ ; leaves small, of few and little diverg- 
ent linear segments: calyx thin, 4 inch long or less, broadly and 
sharply ovate-conical ; corolla yellow, less than 1 inch broad, 
apparently almost rotate: stamens few, with short filaments: 
pods unknown, but growing ovaries showing the two longer of 
the four stigmas with bases accrescent after flowering, becoming 
thick-subulate, and standing out divaricately from each other, or 
slightly recurved, thus persistent like a pair of by no means 
