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67. E. HUMILIS. Compact subacaulescent dwarf 14 to 3 
inches high, the scapiform peduncles slender, not equalling the 
leaves until after flowering ; herbage glabrous, glaucous: leaves 
on slender petioles, the blades very much dissected into short 
and rather broad segments, the ultimates often cuneate-obovate, 
more commonly spatulate-oblong, always acutish: corolla 
orange, nearly rotate, ł inch wide: pods slender, about 1 inch 
long ; torus short-turbinate, the thinnish rim remarkably wide 
and conspicuous for the size of the plant. 
Diminutive species, known to me only some half-dozen speci- 
mens in Herb, Calif. Acad, from Cape Colnett, Lower Califor- 
nia, by Mr. Brandegee, 28 April, 1893. 
68. E. EXILIS. Small nearly acaulescent annual, 3 to 5 inches 
high, glabrous, glaucous: leaves small and short-petioled but 
much dissected and irregularly so, the 3 ultimate segments 
mostly of two oblong lobes and a cuneiform tridentate middle 
one: peduncles elongated, stoutish: calyx small and conical: 
- corolla an inch wide or less; stamens indefinite, the filaments 
slender, long, wholly yellow: stigmas 4, minute but unequal: 
pod 14 inches long, torus under it short and turbinate, striate, 
with well developed rim, but inner margin not so. 
Lagoon Head, Lower California, March, 1889, Dr. E. Palmer, 
forming a part of his n. 794 asin U. S. Herb, and Herb. Calif. 
Acad. Species akin to the Æ. vernalis of San Diego Co., Calif., 
distinguished from it chiefly by its subacaulescent and smaller 
growth and especially by its broad and short torus. 
69. E. LEPTOMITRA. Annual, erect, 1 to 2 feet high, branch- 
ed, only from above the base and sparingly, the leaves few and 
peduncles greatly elongated ; herbage glabrous, merely glauces- 
cent: leaves of the simple basal trunk linear-filiform, at first 
simple, 2 or 3 inches long, the rest parted at apex into 2 or 3 
short filiform lobes or segments, even the rameal ones long- 
petioled, but blade finely cut into few or many linear 
acute segments little divergent: calyx more than 1 inch long, 
