170 PITTONIA. 
base: stamens about 24; anthers linear, 2 lines long: coty- 
ledons cleft below the middle into 2 filiform segments. 
A single herbarium specimen of this, with a pod of ripe 
seeds, was brought me last year, from Chico. California, by 
my friend Dr. Parry, who had been impressed with its peculiar 
aspect as compared with the common species with similarly 
rimmed torus. The particular elegance of the finely dissected 
foliage was the only distinetive mark I could detect in the 
dried specimens ; but no sooner had the cotyledons appeared 
above ground, from the seeds planted, than I saw a new indi- 
eation of a distinet species. Here let me remark, what I have 
not until this year been prepared to announce, that the 
Eschscholtzias whose torus lack the spreading outer rim have 
entire cotyledons, while those which possess that conspicuous 
rim have them deeply bifid, i. e. cleft below the middle, into 
two linear segments. In the present species, that considera- 
ble breadth of segment which we have in the common sorts is 
wanting, so that they are to be described as filiform. The 
foliage of E. tenuisecta is much like that of the insular E. 
elegans ; the ealyptra is far more slenderly attenuate than in 
any other known species of the genus. 
V ESOHSCHOLTZIA LEPTANDRA. Perennial, or at least biennial, 
a foot or more in height, rather stout, strictly erect and with 
a somewhat corymbose habit; glabrous and very glaucous: 
ultimate leaf-segments rather coarse, linear-spatulate, nearly 
parallel: flower buds oblong-ovate, abruptly and rather 
sharply acuminate: inner rim of the torus thin-hyaline, 
erect, pervaded by about 16 stout and prominent nerves, 
outer greatly reduced, but manifest as a narrow somewhat 
turgid ring: petals an inch long, widely expanding, lemon- 
yellow throughout, or orange-tinted below the middle: 
stamens about 32; anthers filiform and nearly a half-inch 
long; filaments barely a line long. 
Desert plains near Verdi, in the western part of Nevada, in 
flower May 20, 1888, Mr. C. F. Sonne. In its flowers, and the 
nature of the torus, this plant recalls E. Mexicana of the 
