268 PITTONIA. 
73. E. TRICHOPHYLLA. Annual, erect, a foot high or more, 
with few and stout ascending leafy and sparsely fioriferous 
branches from below the middle; herbage glabrous, glauces- 
cent: leaves ample, their petioles long and very slender, the blades 
cut into many long filiform segments, the ultimates very unequal, 
mostly somewhat dilated at the apex: flowers all near the sum- 
mit of the plant, on short petioles barely exceeding the almost 
capillary foliage: corolla very small for the plant, ? inch broad, 
nearly rotate: stamens 12, elongated, the anthers and flattened 
subulate filaments of about equal length: pod and seed not 
seen. 
Summit of Santa Cruz Island, April, 1888, T. 8S. Brandegee ; 
type in Herb. Calif. Acad., sheet 2529, mounted with a small 
plant of the maritime Æ. ramosa, and over the same label. Most 
distinct from all other species by its capillary foliage and 
peculiar stamens. 
74. E. cRossoPHYLLA. Glabrous glaucous annual about & 
foot high, the habit in nowise dendroid, the branching beginning 
at the base and being loosely fastigiate, ultimately even with 
some appearance of dichotomy: foliage small, very delicately 
triternate, all the segmentation narrow, all linear except the 
ultimates, these mostly dilated at apex and abruptly acutish : 
corolla ł inch wide: stamens 12, anthers elongated, longer than 
the merely filiform filaments: pods 2 to 24 inches long, slender 
but rigid and with few strie: seeds spherical, the reticulation 
not favose, mostly very irregular but not indistinct. 
Elevated dry rocky slopes of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., 
May, 1889, T. S. Brandegee, in very mature state, copiously 
fruiting; also a young flowering specimen from “Hay Press 
Trail ” on the same island, by Mrs. Trask, March, 1895 ; speci- 
mensin Herb. Calif. Acad., the last mounted on a sheet with 
two other species. 
75. E. ELEGANS, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 182 in part, 
excl. var. ramosa, Annual, erect, a foot or two high, very leafy 
