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and simple scapiform peduncle, the later on once or twice 
forked branches with a reduced leaf at base of each fork or 
peduncle, all the latter quadrangular: flowers and even full- 
grown buds not seen, but calyx in a few small buds narrow- 
conic, hoary with a pubescence softer than that of other parts: 
torns long and almost tubiform, rather sharply angled as well 
as hispidulous, not contracted above, only the inner and hyaline 
margin obvious, a mere delicate ring marking the place of the 
outer: pods 13 inches long, subfalcate: seed round-oyoid, mu- 
cronate-apiculate at one end, marked with elevated more or less 
interrupted sinuous rugosities rather than reticulate. 
San Migueleto Ranch, Monterey Co., Calif., May, 1897, Miss 
Eastwood. A solitary specimen in Herb. Calif. Acad. of a 
singularly marked species of which the flowers are unknown. 
83. E. eximra. Rather large annual, commonly a foot high, 
branched from the very base, and widely, the branches ap- 
parently only decumbent, and from amid a large tuft of basal 
leaves, also leafy throughout, copiously floriferous from the 
middle, the flowers very large for this group, on almost filiform 
peduncles, the buds nodding; lower parts of the plant, but also 
again the young calyxes, hirtellous-scabrous, only glaucescent : 
leaves finely cut into many rather short oblong obtusish seg- 
ments quite divergent: calyx thin, 4 inch long, almost conical, 
the apiculation manifest but short: corolla more than 12 inches 
wide, open-campanulate, golden-yellow: stamens many, slender : 
pods not seen: torus short, funnelform. 
In Herb. Calif. Acad. from Zapato, 27 March, and Alcalde, 
30 March, 1893, T. S. Brandegee, both stations in, I think, 
western Fresno Co., California. An exceedingly beautiful 
Species, of which, 1 seem to think I saw at Kew, in 186 
some fragments that had been collected by Douglas. It is 
otherwise unknown, and presumably very local. 
84. E. ancicornis. Annual, 4 to 10 inches high, freely 
branched from the base, leafy throughout: lower parts of stem 
