288 PITTONIA. 
105. E. Formosa. Large subacaulescent annual, often a foot 
high, the one or two scapiform peduncles and few short sparsely 
leafy branches from a tuftof comparatively small, often depressed 
basal leaves, these and the angles of the peduncles at base sharply 
scabrous denticulate, the whole plant quite glaucous: leaves cut 
into many short acutish and even very small segments: calyx 2 
inch long or more, ovate-conic, short taper-pointed, very thin: 
deep yellow corolla subrotate, more than 2 inches broad : stamens 
about 20, filaments very short, subulate: stigmas 4, of which 
2 are greatly elongated, 2 very short : pods 2 inches long, rather 
slender: hyaline inner margin of torus uncommonly prominent: 
seeds unknown. 
On the last day of March, 1895, I discovered this Aschscholt- 
sia in Wn obscure valley—that of Dry Creek—among the moun- 
tains between Napa and Sonoma Counties, California. Mr. C. F. 
Bakers n. 2614, from Mt. St. Helena, in the same region, 
appears to be the same. For this section of the genus the 
species is a very large and handsome one. It is far more nearly 
acaulescent than Æ. cespitosa or tenuissima, and others of that 
habit. Contrary tothe habit of those, this plant has its earliest 
and strictly scapiform peduncle longest; the sparsely leafy 
branches around it never, with their also long peduncles, to- 
gether equaling the height of the first and scapiform one. The 
plant is doubtless of short duration. The specimens—both 
mine and those of Mr. Baker—seem to give no promise of a 
continued growth throughout the summer season; and in this 
are unlike most annual species. 
106. E. poLicnocarpa, Hastw. Bull. Torr. Club. xxx, 487. 
Subacaulescent annual with stout quadrangular and striate 
scapiform peduncles far surpassing the tufted foliage, and 6 to 
10 inches long: leaves with petioles more or less strongly scab- 
rous-ciliate, the whole plant glaucous : leaf-segments oblong or 
linear, mostly short, divergent, obtuse: corolla yellow, larger, 
2 inches wide: capsule 4 or 5 inches long : seeds ovoid, acute a 
both ends, lightly reticulate. 
