Godetiae novae Americae borealis. 105 



Very diffuse and widely branching. 4 to 8 dm high; flowers small, 

 1 to 1,4 cm long; petals crimson with a mostly 3-forked blotch in the 

 center. 



California: Blue Lakes. July 16, 1897, W. L. Jepson & L. E. 

 Hunt; Saratoga Springs. W. L. Jepson 1892. 



3. Godetia amoena var. Lindleyi Jepson, 1. c. p. 329. 



Oenothera Lindleyi Douglas. Petals 2 to 3,5 cm long, almost uni- 

 formly with a large central blotch. 



Common in the North Coast Ranges, near the sea. Capetown. 

 W. L. Jepson, no. 2141; Three Creeks to Redwood Creek. 4000 ft. alt.. 

 W. L. Jepson, no. 2130, and northward to British Columbia. 



4. Godetia Blasdalei Jepson, 1. c, p. 330. 



Erect, often stout, simple or with slender short strict branches, 6 to 

 8,5 dm high the stem soon leafless except above; leaves oblong to linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3 to 4,5 cm long; herbage puberulent: flowers essen- 

 tially like those of the large-flowered form of G. amoena, but petals 

 notched at apex or even deeply bilobed; ovary thick below middle, 

 tapering to base and also to apex something like a rifle cartridge; cap- 

 sules canescent, thick, terete, rather short (1,3 to 2 cm long), on pedicels 

 2 to 5 cm long. 



San Francisco Bay Region: Point Isabel, July 11. 1893, Dr. W. 

 C. Blasdale; Oakland. July, 1865, Bolander; Douglas, 1831—32, 

 perhaps in the same region. 



5. Godetia Bottae Spach var. usitata Jepson, 1. c, p. 332. 



Stigma short-oblong or quadrate; capsule commonly sessile or nearly 

 so, thick, rather obviously 8-ribbed. 



Southern California; rather common. San Bernardino, Parish, 

 no. 3672. 



6. Godetia Bottae Spach. var. cylindrica Jepson, 1. c, p. 332. 

 Nearly or quite simple. 1,8 to 3,8 dm high, few -flowered; leaves 



narrowly linear or subfiliform, 0,5 to 1 mm broad; calyx indigo-purple: 

 petals 1,9 to 2,2 cm long, lilac-purple above, paler with a sprinkling of 

 dark dots, at base with a dark purple band; anthers sometimes purple- 

 dotted; capsules slender (scarcely more than 1 mm broad), teretish, not 

 costate, as much as 3,2 cm long, sessile for sometimes with a pedicel 

 7 mm long!). 



California: Warthan Creek near Alcalde, W. L. Jepson, no. 2656a: 

 San Emigdio Canon, Davy, no. 1992; Clark's Valley to Squaw Valley. 

 Fresno Co., \V. L. Jepson. no. 2746; Fort Tejon, Kern Co., Hall, June 17. 

 1905; Blue Mt., Greenhorn Range, Kern Co., Hall k Babcock. no. 5007: 

 Bakersfield, Davy, no. 1713. 



7. Godetia deflexa Jepson, 1. c, p. 332. 



Substrictly branching or simple, 2 to 5 dm high, the stem more or 

 less twisted or flexuous; leaves thickish, narrowly oblong, some tapering 

 to the apex, shortly petioled. 2 to 8 mm broad, 3 to 6 cm long, remotely 

 denticulate, the teeth minute but more or less salient; herbage almost 



