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Maritime species, apparently endemic on the group of small 
low rocky islets known as the San Benito Islands, off the coast 
of Mexico; collected in young flowering state, 11 Jan., 1889, 
by Lieut. Chas. F. Pond; also later in the same year by Dr. E. 
Palmer, whose specimens, in U. S. Herb., are in fruit. The 
plant was referred to the more commonly diffused insular species, 
E. ramosa; but while in habit the two are much alike, the 
leaves, pods and seeds of Æ. crassula are all very distinctive. It 
is also further distinguished by its few and very stout fistular 
branches. 
72. E. RAMOSA, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club. xiii. 217. Stout 
upright annual sometimes a foot high, dendroid in habit by its 
system of divergent branches originating quite above the base 
and leaving a simple trunk-like stem below; herbage glabrous, 
glaucous: leayes ample, copious on all the branches, of a most 
fine and delicate lace-like dissection, the ultimate segments very 
short, in threes of which the two laterals usually converge at 
apex towards the middle one: pods 34 inches long, slender, of 
hard texture, marked with few and prominent strie: seeds 
spherical, distinctly and even strongly reticulate, without trace 
of tuberculation. 
Also a maritime species, first collected by myself on the sea 
beach under overhanging cliffs at the north end of Guadalupe 
Island ; this in 1885; and in the same year it was detected by 
Mr. Lyon on San Clemente. A year later I discovered it on a 
rocky islet off the shore of Santa Cruz Island,; this its north- 
ern limit, doubtless. It occurs on many islands and islets off 
the Californian coast, but has not been detected on any mainland 
shore. Mr. Anthony’s specimens from Todos Santos Island are 
branched from the base, hardly dendroid, and perhaps should 
stand for another species. I also doubt the correctness of 
referring any of the so-called Æ. ramosa of the islands San 
Clemente and Santa Catalina to this species. They seem to be 
upland plants, rather than maritime, and are otherwise obvi- 
ously different in some degree. 
