Godetiae novae Americae borealis. 10Q 



California: Box Springs Mt., Riverside. Hall, no. 6240. 



20. Godetia Goddardii Jepson, 1. c, p. 342. 



Simple or sparingly branched. 3 to 7 dm high, foliage and buds as 

 in preceding but spikes not so lax; petals pink-crimson or purple-crimson, 

 with or without dark crimson spot at apex. 0.5 to 1.3 cm long: calyx- 

 lobes primly reflexed. in pairs or quite distant; fruit sessile, 8 to 15 mm 

 long, almost glabrous or canescently puberulent. terete, 8-ribbed, and 

 with 8 distinct but small nerves which are median and at the sutural 

 angles. 



California: Coast Ranges, dry hills: Hupa wagon trail near Red- 

 wood Creek, W. L. Jepson. no. 1971; Mt. St. Helena. W. L. .lepson, 

 July 19, 1894; Napa Soda Springs, W. L. Jepson (= G. albescens var. 

 micropetala Jepson. PI. W. Mid. Cal., p. 334); Fish Ranch, Contra Costa 

 Co., June 9, 1890. W. L. Jepson. Named in honor of Dr. Pliny E. 

 Goddard of the University of California, a student of the food and cere- 

 monial plants of the Hupa tribe, and my traveling companion on an 

 expedition to the South Fork of the Salmon River in 1902 when the 

 specimens were collected. There are transition forms to the preceding. 

 Var. Miguelita Jepson, 1. c. p. 342. 



Branching mainly above (sometimes simple); petals deep crimson; 

 capsules pilose or pubescent, short (1 to 1,6 cm long) and thick (3 cm 

 broad), strongly 2-ribbed on each side and strongly nerved at the angles, 

 very shortly pediceled. 



California: San Miguelito Rancho, W. L. Jepson, no. 1625. 



Forma capitata Jepson, 1. c, p. 342. 

 Stem about 5 cm high, with simple secondary branches from the 

 base, 0,5 to 1,5 cm long; herbage puberulent; flowers in a head-like 

 bracteate cluster at end of branches, the ovaries densely pilose. 

 California: Centreville, Fresno Co.. W. L. Jepson, no. 2745. 



21. Godetia purpurea Don. var. Elmeri Jepson, 1. c, p. 345. 

 Flowers loosely spicate below the dense terminal cluster of young 



buds; petals broadly ovate, dark red in the dried specimens. 1,4 cm long; 

 capsule stout and rather short. 



California: Santa Barbara. Elmer, no. 3972. 



22. Godetia purpurea var. procera Jepson. 1. c, p. 346. 



Slender, tall (5,5 to 7,5 dm. high), simple or with few short slender 

 branchlets; flowers small, the petals 5 <>r 6 mm long. 

 California: Berkeley, Bioletti, July, 1891. 



23. Godetia purpurea var. lacunora Jepson, 1. c.. p. 346. 



Tall (4 or 5 dm. high), freely branching, upper portions of the 

 branches angled (!) or compressed (!): flowers congested at the ends 

 of the branches; petals 0,8 to 1,3 cm long. 



California: Oakdale, San Joaquin Valley, W. L. Jepson (leaves 

 acute); Douglas, probably Monterey Co. (leaves obtusish, or in Herb. 

 Lindley acutish), branches strict, slender, naked except at tip! 



