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ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 285 
outer filaments subulate and short, inner much longer, filiform: 
pod 23 inches long; torus under it short-tubular: seeds ovoid, 
acute at one end, irregularly but not faintly reticulate. 
Plant common on the hills of the coast mountains of Cali- 
fornia from near the northern arm of San Francisco Bay at least 
to Lake and Colusa counties, thence southward along the foot- 
hills of the Sierra Nevada from Butte Co. to at least Amador 
and Stanislaus, unless among the numerous specimens from 
various parts of this vast territory I am including more than 
one species. Plants from the vicinity of lone and the Stanislaus 
have a much narrower leaf-segmentation, and would answer to 
Bentham’s obscure and troublesome Æ. tenuifolia, but the calyx 
in these does not at all agree; and Douglas did not visit these 
remote and, in his time, wildest and unsettled parts of Cali- 
_ fornia. Common as the species is, in its early stage, that in 
_ Which Bentham had it, when it appears subacaulescent, I find 
next to no specimens in the herbaria; and in those which exist 
now so copiously, Bentham himself would never have recognized 
his own species, so completely different are they, habitally, 
from what the plant must bei in early spring, when all the pedun- 
cles are scapiform. 
At Kew, in 1894, with the types before me, I seem to have 
made out real distinctions between Æ. cæspitosa and tenuifolia, 
- but the notes, if I made any, are long since lost. 
102. E. TENUISSIMA. Slender annual about a foot high, 
rather freely branched from the base as well as copiously leafy 
there; slender petioles and lower parts of branches often his- 
pidulous, sometimes quite glabrous, the plant always glaucous: 
leaves cut into many long narrow-linear segments only little 
divergent: very slender peduncles 5-angled, the several early 
and scapiform ones much longer than the leaves, the latter less 
scapiform but long, terminating sparsely leafy branches: calyx 
ł inch long, diaphanous, the elliptic body surmounted by a 
- usually very long and slender acumination: corolla large for 
the plant, golden-yellow or even almost orange, not widely 
