Bin PITTONIA. 
composed of 3 slenderly petiolulate divisions, each cleft into 3 
oblong lobes: calyx } inch long, of elliptic outline with very 
short point; corolla very small, 4 inch broad, orange-color : 
stigmas 2 and small, with mere traces of the other 2: pods thin- 
walled, small, only 13 inches long: seeds few, large for the 
plant, quite spherical, blackish and lightly reticulate. 
Upper Mad River, Trinity Co., Calif. 28 June, 1893, J. W. 
Blankinship: type in Herb. Calif. Acad. This very character- 
istic species, and these specimens are, I think the only esch- 
scholtzias seen in any herbarium from that large mountainous 
unexplored county of Trinity. Collectors seem afraid to go into 
those wildernesses. 
81. E. LUDENS. Low annual, glabrous, glaucous, 3 to 6 
inches high, all the slender branches rigidly erect or ascending 
from amid a distinct tuft of upright basal leaves and all sub- 
scapiform, the one earliest flower on a naked peduncle, all the 
others on pedunculiform branches naked -to near the summit, 
these bearing 2 subopposite leaves and a few subumbellate 
flowers: leaves all short-petioled, rather compactly multifid, the 
ultimate segments short, oblong and obovate-oblong obtusish : 
calyx 2 lines long, thin, obovate, pointless ; corolla rotate, 4 or 5 
lines wide: stamens 8 only, the subulate filaments and oblong 
anthers about equal: pod stoutish for the plant, 1 to 14 inches 
long. 
St. George, southern Utah, M. E. Jones, 26 April, 1894, the 
type specimens in U.S. Herb. Plant of peculiar habit; in the 
subumbellate branching of the stems near the summit, it recalls 
that Californian rarity, Æ. hypecoides, to which, however, it 18 
not very intimately allied. Other specimens from southern 
Utah seem to belong here. 
82. ASPRELLA. Dwarf annual, in full maturity 5 inches’ 
high, subacaulescent, glaucous, scabro-hispidulous throughout 
even to the torus and pods: leaves nearly all basal, cut into 
many short acute segments; only the earliest flower on a nake 
