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campanulate: stamens about 16, the filaments short, subulate, 
black-tipped, anthers long, oblong-linear: stigmas 4, unequal : 
torus short funnelform, with distinct, if not very wide or con- 
Spicuous sim: pod slender, 2 inches long or more. 
Smallish upright vernal and short-lived annual of the mesas 
and hilly uplands of Los Angeles and San Diego Counties, Cali- 
fornia, flowering and fruiting from the beginning of February 
to the beginning of the dry season in April, after which the 
plants are dead and some gone. It was this that I had chiefly 
in mind when, in 1885, I wrote of Æ. peninsularis as frequent 
about San Diego; and all the San Diego “ Æ. peninsularis” of 
my collecting and distributing in that year, is of this elegant 
and abundant plant, equally distinct from the maritime Æ. 
Clevelandi on one hand and from the true Æ. peninsularis of the 
mountains of the Lower Californian peninsula on the other. 
But Mr. Orcutt obtained and distributed from Palm Valley, in 
N. L. Cal. in 1885, under the name of Æ. peninsularis, what is 
rather to be referred to Æ. vernalis, though it has a shorter 
torus with wider rim than the Californian plant. 
56. E. poysopges. Annual, the several stems not slender, up- 
right from amid a tuft of long-petioled upright basal leaves, 8 
to 14 inches high; herbage glabrous, glaucous; leaves with 
broad petiole and narrow lamina, the segments rather few, little 
divergent, linear, acute, apt to be purple at tip: calyx ł inch 
long, not very thin, oblong-conical, or rather oval with long and 
gradual apiculation: corolla rather light-yellow, 1 to 14 inches 
broad, expanding widely: stamens many, with short linear 
wholly yellow filaments: stigmas 4, slightly unequal: torus 
acutely turbinate under the flower, but white and scarious- 
looking, under the pod inflated and bladdery, the outer rim in 
these obscured, yet manifest, though narrow under the buds 
and flowers. 
Witch Creek, San Diego Co., Calif., April, 1894, R. D. Alder- 
son; the type in my herbarium; the name Æ. caespitosa being 
given on the label. In the herbarium of Mr. Parish are two 
specimens from the same place, the same year, and by Mr. Alder- 
