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torus under them quite broad but rather thin, crispid and 
recurved, under the buds and flowers, only, seen to be quite 
ample: seeds small for the plant, round-ovoid to almost ellipti- 
cal and acute, favose-reticulate. 
I refer to this species some eight sheets, all from the upper 
San Joaquin, gathered partly by Mr. Brandegee and partly by 
Miss Eastwood, all but one of the sheets belonging to Herb. 
Calif. Acad. One sheet of small very glaucous specimens in 
the early and acaulescent stage, collected at Caliente, 4 April, 
1891, being in Herb. Field Mus. Two sheets bearing precisely 
the same label are in Herb. Calif. Acad., all with plants of a 
somewhat later stage of development. Sheet n. 2625 contains 
a large young plant scarcely glaucescent, and one which 
had no acaulescent stage; also a small subacaulescent specimen 
that is glaucous. A large and handsome specimen exactly 
like this as to being glaucous ocupies sheet 2474. A 
half-dozen small subacaulescent glaucous specimens from 
Lerdo, 3 April, 1891, by Mr. Brandegee, occupying sheet 
2470, show a different habit, and somewhat dissimilar 
foliage, so that scarcely believe they are of this species. 
Sheet 2672, of Miss Eastwood’s collecting in March, 1893, 
has a large specimen from San Emidio in the same region 
this well branched in copious young flowering ; also three small 
earlier ones from Bakersfield, each with its solitary first flower 
in its perfectly scapi-like peduncle. Sheet 2603 is occupied by 
a specimen from Exeter, Tulare Co., by Miss Eastwood, the date 
26 April, 1895. All these are glaucous plants, with narrower 
leaf-dissection and paler flowers than the Caliente types; but 
the whole assemblage seems to be at agreement in the ultimate 
Segmentation of foliage, characters of calyx, stamens and torus, 
Nevertheless, when properly investigated in the field, these may 
come to three if not four good species. My actual types must 
be the Brandegee specimens, scarcely glaucescent, on sheets of 
Calif. Acad. 2625 and 2626. 
54, E. STRAMINEA. Annual, the many decumbent branches 
a foot long or more, stout but apparently hollow, of a vivid 
