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low, nearly rotate, 14 inches wide: stamens many, the short fila- 
ments lanceolate-subulate, wholly yellow: pods thinnish and 
nearly straight, scarcely 2 inches long: torus short-funnelform 
strongly ribbed, outer rim prominent, inner margin less so; 
seeds small, exactly spherical, elegantly favose-reticulate and . 
minutely dotted. 
Sandy soil near, and among the foothills of the Sierra Nevada 
in Fresno and Kern counties, California; first collected by Dr. 
Edward Palmer at Kernville, June, 1888; and there is a hand- 
some sheet in U. S. Herb., bearing the legend “ Agricultural 
grounds, Washington, D. C., cult. 1889,” which is so clearly 
identical with the wild original of Dr. Palmer’s collecting, that 
one can not doubt the derivation of these garden specimens from 
seeds brought by Dr. Palmer the year before; though the herba- 
rium sheets in neither case furnishaseed. But these specimens 
are the types, except for the account of the seeds. The latter 
are found preserved with a good specimen taken on sandy ground 
near Kingsbury, by Mr. T. H. Kearney, 17 June, 1901. Still 
later, Mr. Cougdon of Mariposa Co., has sent a poor specimen 
from Copper Mine, Mariposa Co., this of 18 May, 1903. The 
species is an uncommonly fine one, habit in recalling Æ. Cleve- 
tandi of the San Diego seashore. 
44, E. AMBIGUA, Greene, Fl. Fr. 286. Annual, branched 
from the base, the branches rather slender, strongly decumbent 
or more depressed, 5 or 6 inches long, the whole forming a loose 
mat a foot broad or less; herbage glaucescent, mainly glabrous, 
but margins of petioles and petiolules, sometimes also of growing 
foliage and young buds, scabrous in lines; leaves small, the seg- 
ments divergent moderately, the ultimates obovate-cuneiform, 
-cuspidately acute: calyx narrowly ovate, with gradual and not 
slender point, the whole + inch long; corolla golden-yellow, 
widely expanding, 1 inch wide or more: stamens about 12, the 
wholly yellow filaments rather long, nearly filiform, anthers 
much longer: stigmas 4, unequal : pods small, slender, thinnish, 
1 inch long or more, the torus under them turbinate, with obvi- 
ous rim: seeds (immature) spherical, lightly reticulate. 
