292 PITTONIA. 
from seeds sent by Lobb; and I do not think the species would 
produce seed in that climate; so that even Æ. Zoddi¢ was doubt- 
less extinct there after one season. 
In 1893 I was careful to obtain seeds of this denizen of the 
dry and heated foothills of the interior, and to plant them in 
the open ground by the seaboard. The plants grew well and 
produced flowers in the richest profusion there, yet not a pod 
was formed, or even a growing ovary observed. 
111. E. UNGUICULATA. Annual, sometimes small and de- 
pressed when upright 6 to 10 inches high, all parts very slender, 
the long petioles, and even the scapiform peduncles at flowering 
filiform, sharply quadrangular, the intervening line distinct 
but not prominent: many earliest leaves linear-filiform and 
simple, succeeded by others with 3 segments at tip, the segments 
of all linear-filiform or acerose: calyx narrowly cblong-conical 
with distinct short apiculation: petals all narrow, somewhat 
rhombic-obovate, tapering to a broad and short but distinct 
claw: pods very slender, 13 inches long: seeds as in the last. 
Known mainly by a single sheet of good specimens in Herb. 
Calif. Acad., collected long ago—the year not mentioned—at 
Madera, Calif. by Mr. Buckminster. There are also two speci- 
mens of the same mounted, along with one of Z. Loddzé, all 
thought to have been obtained at Ione, Amador Co. 
112. E. GLYPTOSPERMA, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 70. 
Glabrous, very glaucous, densely cxspitose, annual 3 to 6 inches 
high, seeming acaulescent, only the slender terete peduncles 
rising above the tuft of leaves; these of rounded outline, some- 
what pedately ternate, rather fleshy, cut into long linear little 
divergent segments: calyx 4 to 5 lines long, broadly ovate— 
conic, shortly taper-pointed: corolla rotate, an inch wide: 
stamens 30 or more, of long anthers on shorter slender-subulate 
filaments: pod 14 inches long, not stout, very glaucous an 
striate; inner margin of torus not hyaline, pergamentaceous 
rather : seeds spherical, grayish, marked with rounded shallow 
pits and with no reticulation. 
Originals from the Mohaye Desert, California, by Mrs. Curran, 
