NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SPECIES. 169 
phyllum and the extreme southern P. Californicum, the P. 
Lemmoni holding precisely middle ground, geographically as 
well as carpologically. 
" EscHSCHOLTZIA MODESTA. Annual, very slender and dif- 
fusely branching, a foot high, glabrous and moderately 
glaucous: leaves small, with few and narrow segments: 
pedicels axillary, an inch long or more, terete and ve 
slender, nodding in the bud; bud 2 lines long, the permanent 
portion (torus) with no rim, nearly as long as the broadly 
ovate calyptra: corolla rotate-spreading, 4 inch broad; petals 
obovate, not meeting, the rounded apex erose- or sinuate- 
toothed, or, in later flowers, deeply 3-lobed, pale yellow: 
stamens 8, in two rows on opposite sides of the pistil, or, in late 
flowers, 4 only ; anthers 4 line long, on slender filaments of a 
aline's length: pod 2 inches long, narrow, the valves thin: 
seeds globular, minute, reticulate; cotyledons very narrowly 
oblanceolate, entire. 
Collected by Mr. S. B. Parish, in Los Angeles County, 
California, June, 1887, and distributed by him under number 
1951, with the name “ Eschschollzia minutiflora, Wats. ?" 
The description is drawn up from living plants, the seeds 
having been communicated by Mr. Parish. The species, it 
will be observed, has many peculiarities. The definitely 
eight stamens I now observe in the otherwise very different 
E. rhombipetala. : 
/EscHsOHOLTZIA TENUISECTA. Annual, erect, a foot high, 
glabrous and little glaucous: ultimate leaf-segments long 
and slender, gradually tapering from a broad obtuse or trun- 
cate apex, widely divergent in the young leaves, less so in the 
later ones: flower-buds ovate, with a long and gradually 
attenuate aeumination: inner rim of torus nerveless and 
horizontal (its margin, not its body, in contact with the ovary), 
e outer coriaceous, about a line deep, red ; ` petals an inch 
long, widely expanding, bright yellow, with a light-orange 
