60 PITTONIA. 
2. P. picnoromus.—Krynitzkia dichotoma, Greene, Bull, 
Cal. Acad. i. 206; Gray, Syn. Fl. Suppl. 1. c. 
MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES, NEW OR RARE. 
EscHSCHOLTZIA MARITIMA. Root perennial: stems stout 
and succulent, very leafy and dichotomous, 2—3 feet long, 
wholly prostrate: herbage very glaucous and also white- 
puberulent: leaves dense, i: e., the spatulate-oblong obtuse 
segments numerous, short and crowded: torus with a mani- 
fest rim spreading horizontally: calyptra about a half inch 
long, oval, abruptly narrowed to a very short blunt or even 
retuse tip: corolla broad-campanulate ; petals 10 lines long, 
lemon-yellow with a rhomboidal spot of orange at base: pod 
small: seed reticulate. 
About Point Harris on the northeastern part of the island 
of San Miguel, on clayey slopes near the sea; very plentiful. 
I was pleased with the dense handsome foliage of this 
plant when I was collecting it, but the minute white pu- 
bescence I mistook for a mere saline incrustation, such as 
many forms of vegetation are apt to acquire when growing, as 
this plant does, under the influence of the sea-spray. Thus I 
took it for simply a maritime state of E. Californica, pre- 
served only a few specimens, and shortly after my return dis- 
tributed them to correspondents under that name. But I also 
took care to bring a few ripe seeds, and from these I have a 
number of thrifty plants now more than eight months old and 
well in flower. Although they are growing in a rich garden 
soil most unlike that of their insular habitat, and some miles 
away from the sea, they exhibit all the peculiarities of the 
` parent plants. I have now detected some characteristics 
which, in the hurry of my brief stay on the island, I over- 
looked. 
In the specific character I have mentioned one peculiarity 
