276 PITTONIA, 
519, taken in early April, and from the Panamint mountain | 
cafions, is large, freely branched, exhibiting many buds on slen- 
der nodding peduncles, and as many flowers, as well as the full 
grown pod on each early scape-like stalk. In Herb. Calif. Acad. 
there is a fine specimen from Lone Pine, Inyo Co., by Brandegee, 
16 April, 1891. This is more mature than any of those collected 
by Mr. Coville. 
I at first tried to place this as a variety of Æ. minutiflora, and 
even so named it at an early stage in the course of this trying 
and perplexing study. It is a plant of the same size, with 
foliage and flowers about as large. But the difference in cut 
of leaves, as well as texture, and the whole habit and aspect of 
the two, declare them not even very closely related, and I sup- 
pose that, had I had experience of the topographic and climatic 
differences between the mountains of northern Nevada and the 
deserts of Inyo Co., California, I should not have thought them 
possibly one species. 
87. E. MODESTA, Greene, Pitt. i. 168. Annual, widely much 
branched from the base, not very slender, commonly forming & 
leafy and floriferous mass less than a foot high, more than a foot. 
wide, but sometimes taller and lax ; herbage glabrous, glaucescent: 
leaves copious, clothing not only the base of the plant but all 
the branches and branchlets, the divisions divergent, but ulti- 
mate sezments hardly so, linear, obtuse; peduncles terete short, 
of less than half the length of the pods, these 2 inches long: calyx 
2 lines long, thin, obovate, obtuse, without apiculation: corolla ro- 
tate, ł inch broad, cruciform, the obovate petals not meeting: sta- 
mens 8 in early flowers, 4 in the later ; anthers small, of half the 
length of the filiform filaments: torus short, cup-like, no mar- 
ginal rim obvious: pods more firm and striate than in allied 
species: seeds spherical, reticulate. : 
Known at first only as collected 7 June, 1887, by Mr. Parish, 
at Alpine, Los Angeles Co., Calif., and as cultivated by me at 
Berkeley a year later. My earlier diagnosis was of living 
plants as they appeared in my garden, certain specimens of 
