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call them filiform, he properly basal leaves are two or three 
‘only. The earliest flower was borne on a truly seapiform and 
slender peduncle not much longer than the pod it bears. 
93. E. PUSILLA. Slender annual with tufted stems or branches 
5 to 8 inches high, rather freely floriferous on many more or 
less fastigiate leafy branchlets; herbage glabrous, glaucous 
leaves much dissected though small, the segments oblong-linear, 
acutish, moderately divergent : calyx very thin, extremely small, 
} inch long or little more, elliptic-oblong, barely mucronulate 
rather than apiculate; corolla } inch broad: slender thin pods 
1 inch long or little more, mostly beaked by vacant terminal 
part; torus very small, subturbinate : seeds oval, reticulate. 
In the Sierra Nevada, Calif., at Kernville, Kern Co., 13 May, 
1891, T. S. Brandegee, type in Herb. Calif. Acad. Interesting 
species, with fastigiate or subumbellate clustering of upper 
branchlets and peduncles; the buds of peculiar shape, and 
delicate pods the smallest in the genus. 
94. E. CARUIFOLIA. Annual, slender, branched from the 
base, the branches scarcely decumbent, a foot long or more, 
loosely and rather amply leafy throughout; plant wholly 
glabrous, glaucescent: leaves cut into few very long and nar- 
rowly linear acute rather widely divergent segments: peduneles 
few and very long, though but the one earliest one truly naked 
and scapiform: calyx very thin and diaphanous, fully 1 inch 
long inclusive of the conical body and very long and slender 
caudiform acumination: corolla large, 14 inches long: stigmas 
2, very slender and unequal: slender straight pod extremely 
long, 34 inches, torus very small and short, narrowly turbinate, 
the ring well developed but inner margin mere conspicuous: im- 
mature seeds elliptic-oblong. 
Leesville, Colusa Co., Calif., April, 1889, Brandegee: type 
in Herb. Calif. Acad. Most remarkable species, of which I 
should like to see the cotyledons; for it is one of a very few 
= concerning which, in default of these, one may doubt whether 
it be of this section of Zschscholtzua, 
