Tab. 5867. 

 OENOTHERA Whitneyi. 



Whitney s Evening Primrose. 



Nat. Ord. Onagrarieje. — Octandria Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5828.) 



CEnothera (Godetia) Whitneyi; minute puberula, caule simplici v. e baai 

 ramoso valido ad apicem foliato, foliis oblongo-lunceolatis subinteger- 

 rimis, floribus amplis confertis, calycts tubo obconico segmentis multo 

 breviore, antheris linearibus, stigmatibus linearibus elotigatis, capsnHfl 

 carnosis subsessilibus oblongo-fusiformibus cano-hirsutis, loculis poly- 

 spermis, seminibus adscendentibus. 



CEnothera (Godetia) Whitneyi, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. y vol. vii. 

 p. 340, June 11, 1^67. 



Dr. Asa Gray, the authority for this species, describes it as 

 " the most splendid of all the Godetias, and very desirable 

 for cultivation, from the fine colour and great size of the 

 flowers crowded at the summit of the stem, 5 ' and states that 

 he has named it after Professor Whitney, the distinguished 

 head of the Californian State Geological Survey ; in the 

 prosecution of which it was discovered. It was first col- 

 lected by Dr. Bolander, botanist to the Survey, on the plains 

 at Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California, in 1867 ; and 

 the specimen here figured, which by no means exceeds in 

 beauty and size of flower (which in Gray's description and 

 dried specimens are four inches in diameter) the native 

 specimens, was raised from seeds sent by Mr. Bolander to Mr. 

 Thompson, of the Ipswich Nurseries, who flowered it last 

 summer in perfection. 



Descr. Stem about a foot high, simple or much branched, 

 leafy, and as well as the whole plant, minutely pubescent 

 and pale green. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1870. 



