252 PITTONIA. 
Still known only in the original specimen, described in FI. Fr. 
Other plants have been distributed under this name, but always 
wrongly. 
45. E. TENUISECTA, Greene, Pitt. i, 167. Annual, upright, 
but branched from the base, the outer branches therefore ascend- 
ing, the whole a foot high or more, glabrous, glaucous: leaves 
not ample, multifid and the many segments extremely narrow, 
moderately divergent, the ultimates a little wider under the 
mostly acute or acutish apex: calyx very thin, subconic-ovate, 
usually long and slender-pointed : corolla yellow, about 14 inches 
wide: stamens many: stigmas very slender and unequal: pods 
2 inches long; torus under them with broad and prominent 
coriaceous rim: seeds exactly spherical, delicately favose-reticu- 
late. 
First described from living plants grown from seed brought 
from near Chico, Butte Co., Calif. A few specimens were 
gathered the first year (1888) from the garden, and distributed 
to several correspondents. One of these, communicated to H. 
N. Patterson, is now in Herb. Field Mus. Others made from 
the garden the second year (1889) were not true to the type, and 
are probably hybrids of Æ. ¢enuisecta with some other species 
growing in the same bed. These are much stouter plants than 
this type, more sparingly branched and less glaucous, as well as 
with a less narrow leaf-dissection. 
Good wild specimens from what must be the original station 
about Chico, were sent out by Heller & Brown under n. 5456 
(Herb. Field. Mus.) named Æ. Aypecoides. 
46. E. coenata. Stoutish decumbent annual, 8 or 10 inches 
high only, including the length of the large pods; several pe- 
duncles long and scapiform: herbage glabrous, glaucous: leaves 
mostly near the bases of the very short branches, not small, 
finely cut into many long narrow acute segments little diverg- 
ent: calyx not seen: corolla 14 inches wide: stigmas 4, n 
slender, long and nearly equal: pods stoutish, 3 inches long oF 
