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preserved in one or more European herbaria. While at Kew in 
1894 I sought out what purported to be Bentham’s type speci- 
mens, and was not a little surprised to note that the ted 
a plant totally unknown to me; and I found that the species 
would have to be considered one of that number that have ap- 
parently become extinct since the days of the early collectors in 
the then uncultivated wilds of California. 
But I am glad to concede to Miss Eastwood, of the California 
Academy, the honor of having re-discovered a plant so long 
lost. Her specimens are all from an isolated valley lying just 
east of Monterey County, between two ranges of mountains, but 
within the county of Fresno. The locality is not remote from 
Monterey, and Douglas, the only other collector of the species, 
may have visited just this region ; or the plant in his day may 
have had a wider range. 
86. E. COVILLEI. Smallish annual rather freely branched at 
the very base and decumbent, not very slender, seldom 10 inches 
high, glabrous, glaucous; basal leaves copious, but the broad 
petioles of great inequality, the longer straggling, the tufted 
aspect not pronounced : branches scarcely striate, loosely leafy 
and floriferous throughout: leaves smallish, rather firm and 
fleshy as well as compact, cut into uncommonly broad and short 
segments, these mostly short-oblong, some obovate, all acute: 
calyx thin, 3 or 4 lines long, ovate-conical, merely acute: corolla 
} or } inch wide, open-campanulate: stamens about 12, the 
slender-subulate filaments longer than the oblong anthers : pod 
1} to 13 inches long, firm, striate. 
Low deserts of Inyo Co., southeastern California, copi- 
ously gathered by Coville & Funston on the Death Valley expe- 
dition, and catalogued by Mr. Coville, under my advice, as Æ. 
- minutiflora. he Death Valley Exp. n. 334 represents the plant 
as found at the first flowering, 19 and 20 Feb., 1891. These 
specimens as in U. S. Herb. show the loose bunch of straggling 
rather than tufted foliage, with the very first flower present on 
a slender scapiform peduncle much shorter than the leayes, No. 
