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which were afterward pressed, and I think some duplicates dis- 
tributed to several herbaria. But the appearance of these 
specimens is very different from that of the originals gathered 
and distributed by Mr. Parish. Any plant indigenous to a 
desert mountain region of the distant interior would inevitably 
develop, in the cool moist seaboard climate of the environs of 
San Francisco Bay, into something less robust, if not, as in 
this case, into a taller and more lax herb. I have here amended 
the description according to the requirements of the original 
wild specimens of the arid southern interior. 
The species seems next of kin to real Æ. minutiflora, but has a 
much more robust diffuse mode of growth, a very different calyx» 
and seeds more definitely reticulate, besides other substantial 
differences. 
88. E. MICRANTHA. Æ. minutiflora, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 
i. 70, also in part of S. Watson. Much branched from the very 
base, the primary branches slightly decumbent, otherwise 
rigidly erect, diffuse above with many rigid and rather wiry 
branchlets and short peduncles, all these terete, not even faintly 
striate, clothed throughout with small leaves and copiously flo- 
riferous, the plant 1 to 14 feet high, glabrous, glaucous: even 
the basal leaves small, firm, upright on short petioles, the ulti- 
mate segments very short, or on some leaves oblong or obovate 
oblong, mostly acutish: numerous peduncles, very short, 
few exceeding an inch in length, many not half an inch: calyx 
minute, thin, round-obovate, mucronulate: petals hardly a line 
long, rotately expanding, not overlapping: stamens at first 8, 
later 4 only: anthers short, on filiform filaments: pods 14 or 2 
inches long, very slender, thin-walled: seeds spherical, reticu- 
late. | 
_ This species is primarily, if not almost exclusively of the 
Mohave Desert, southeastern California. It entered into the 
composition of Mr. Watson’s Æ. minutiflora, and is in fact 
the only plant to which that name is appropriate. I have, how- 
ever, left that name connected with plants collected by himself 
