ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 291 
Hooker, who published the plate cited, erred widely as to the 
- plant’s being identical with Æ. tenuifolia, Benth., to the descrip- 
tion of which it does not at all answer, the leaf-segments being 
far from “subulate-linear,” besides, Douglas neither collected 
nor saw this plant, which is of the foothills and plains of the 
interior valley toward the Sierra Nevada. The specimens are 
few, namely, a sheet in my own herbarium from northwestern 
Solano Co. by Jepson; another in Herb, Calif. Acad. from plains 
_ and hills of Butte Co., by Mrs. Bruce; a third in the same herb- 
arium from Ione, Amador Co. by Brandegee. It appears to be 
associated, usually, with the next, which is very common in the 
same region, and of which I can not forbear suggesting it may 
possibly be a mutation. The plant is not at all glaucous; and 
in this respect, the plate cited misrepresents iq. 
110. E. PULCHELLA. Æ.tenuifolia, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 
i. 70, not Benth., also Æ. casprtosa, Greene, Fl. Fr. 287, partly 
(excluding reference to plate in Bot. Mag.), not Benth. Plant 
of half, or less than half the size of Æ. Zodbbiz, much more 
slender, commonly scaberulous or even hirsutulous near the 
base; earliest entire leaves linear-filiform and the segmentation 
of the later form narrowly linear to fairly filiform; scape-like 
peduncles very slender, sharply quadrangular, the elevated line 
between two angles obscure or obsolete: calyx broadly ovate, 
am and sharply taper-pointed, the whole obviously striate 
ith dark lines: pods 13 to 2 inches long: seeds lamellate and 
batike 
Small and beautiful species, plentiful among the lowest foot- 
hills of the Sierra Nevada bordering the northern half of the 
interior valley of California, from Butte County southward to 
Amador and Fresno; scores of sheets in all the herbaria, many 
of them bearing my manuscript name since 1894 when at Kew 
I learned that it was none of Bentham’s species founded on 
Douglas’ material. If Æ. puichella was ever grown in Europe— 
of which there is no evidence—it would probably have been 
