280 PITTONIA. 
cuneate-oboyate petals not meeting, } inch long or more: stamens 
12-16, with short filaments filiform, above an abruptly dilated 
base: stigmas 4, very long, not very unequal: pod rather stout, 
about 2 inches long: torus very long, tubular-funnelform. 
Type from Huron, Fresno Co., Calif., 8 May, 1893, Miss East- 
wood. Also apparently the same from Buena Vista Hills, not 
far distant, though in Kern Co., 9 April the same year; this, 
however, less caulescent, and with broader petals. 
? 
92. E. MINUTIFLORA, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi, 122, in part 
and as to plant of northwestern Nevada only. Rather slender gla- 
brous glaucescent annual 7 or 8 inches high, the not very many 
branches apparently weak and straggling rather than properly de- 
cumbent, somewhat copiously leafy throughout, the flowers on 
peduncles not exceeding the leaves; dissection of foliage rather 
open, the divisions not crowded, the ultimate segments linear, ob- 
tusish, very moderately divergent: calyx about 2 lines long, ovate, 
acute, or acuminate, not truly apiculate: corolla apparently 
orange, 4 lines broad or less: stamens 8 or 12, oblong anthers 
shorter than the slenderly subulate filaments: pod slender, fully 
13 inches long. 
For what was with Mr. Watson, and even with myself twenty 
years ago, a rather vast aggregate, I select Mr, Watson’s own 
plant of northern Nevada as the type to bear the name Æ. 
minutiflora. By its soft foliage cut into long and narrow little 
divergent segments, by the absence of any tuft of basal leaves 
and the equable leafiness of the whole plant, it stands in very 
marked contrast with every one of those more southerly and 
desert species, that have eyen smaller flowers, one of which 
Mr. Watson knew and included under the Æ. California var. 
hypecoides of the King’s Expedition Report, and in the Æ. 
minutiflora subsequently published. 
The above diagnosis is from material of Mr. Watson’s own 
collecting at Truckee Pass, May, 1868, and the label bears this 
number 51. On the sheet in U. S. Herb. the two cotyledons still | 
persist, are entire, and so extremely narrow that one may almost 
