286 PITTONTA. 
expanding: stamens often 20, of short purple-tipped filaments 
and much longer anthers: stigmas 4, slender, unequal: pods 
slender, 32 inches long. 
Middle elevations of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, 
from Mariposa Co., Congdon, northward to Butte Co.. thence 
crossing to similar altitudes in the inner Coast Range. Copiously 
collected by Mr. George Hansen in Calaveras and Amador coun- 
ties in 1896, and distributed to various herbaria as a form of 
E. cespitosa. His numbers 1539 in Herb. Calif. Acad. and in 
my own, as well as 1359, 1058, 1547, and 1596 in U.S. Herb., 
all represent this fine species at its time of full flowering. I 
have wished that this might be proven to be Bentham’s Æ. 
tenuifolia, for that name would well beseem a species with 
foliage so finely cut. Nevertheless, the segments are far enough 
from being “subulate-linear,” and the buds are as far from 
answering to the description, “obtusish, acuminate.” Of 
course, the principal habitat of this plant was not reached by 
Douglas, on whose specimens the species was founded. But, as 
it comes down the inner Coast Range to Lake Co., if not even 
to Sonoma Co., I think Douglas may be thought to have reached 
this part of its habitat. But it still remains that these speci- 
mens do not answer the description of Æ. tenuifolia. 
103. E. ELMERI. Annual, with many lax ascending branches’ 
from the base, a foot high or more, sparsely leafy with a small 
foliage, loosely floriferous, the peduncles all greatly elongated 
and not slender; herbage greenish and glaucescent, glabrous 
except as to basal parts, these scaberulous to hirtellous: leaf- 
divisions remote, each of 3 segments that are cuneiform an 
3-toothed or cuneate-oblong and entire, the final segmentations 
acutish, or in some plants very acute: calyx 8 lines long, opaque, 
elliptic-oblong, abruptly and slenderly short-taper-pointed : 
corolla golden-yellow, subrotate, 1} inches wide: stamens many» 
` filaments very short: stigmas 4, not slender, very unequal: pods 
3 inches long, quite slender; torus funnelform. 
Tassajara, Hot Springs, Monterey Co., Calif., June, 1901, 
