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CLARKIA ELEGANS. CALIFORNIAN CLARKIA. 
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Class and Order. 
OctranpRIA MonocGynis. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onagcrariz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. superus 4-partitus reflexus, sepe laciniis coherenti- 
bus. Pet. 4, unguiculata, estivatione convoluta. Stam. 
alterna sterilia, antheris demum reflexis. Stigma 4-lobum, 
petaloideum. Capsula cylindracea, sulcata, 4-locularis, 4- 
valvis. Semina adscendentia nuda. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Crarkta elegans ; foliis ovatis dentatis integrisque, caule 
glauco racemoso, petalis rhomboideis indivisis, stig- 
mate pubescente, ovario piloso. Lindl. 
Crarxia elegans. “ Dougl. in litt.” Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 
1575. 
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This is a third species of the Genus Crargia which Mr. 
Dovetas has detected on the Pacific side of North America: 
two of them he found in the Hudson’s Bay Company's 
territories ; while the present is a native of California, and 
scarcely less worthy of a place in our flower borders, (where 
it is perfectly hardy,) than the well-known Cxarkra pul- 
chella, which Mr. Dovexas was also the means of introduc- 
ing to our collections through the Horticultural Society. 
It blossoms through the summer and autumn. 
Descr. Stem erect, two to three feet high, with numer- 
ous erect, twiggy, rounded, and quite glabrous, reddish 
branches. Leaves ovate, on short petioles, glabrous, acute, 
more or less distinctly toothed, the upper ones gradually 
narrower and smaller, and taking the place of bracteas: so 
that the branches, for a great part of their length, are lou 
eafy, 
