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B. glabella (Nutt.) Walpers 



Watson 



1843, ii. 89; 

 Oenothera 



Nutt. in Torrey & Gray, Flora, 1840, i. 505. 



A span or two high, simple or mostly decumbently 

 branched near the base and frequently with ascending 

 branches above, bluish, densely soft villous to glabrous; 

 leaves half an inch long, ovate lanceolate, acute, serrulate, 

 the upper similar ; flowers in a terminal cluster and a few 

 shorter lateral spikes, also occasionally in the lower axils, 

 shorter than the subtending leaves ; corolla ! 

 long, violet; capsules rather slender, nea 



mm 



•ly straight, 



mm 



somewhat 2-keeled, loculicidal; seeds 

 subfusiform, small, about .35X1 mm. 



(varying from 



to .42 X .84 to 



mm. ) . — British 



Columbia (Cypress 



Columbia to Montana, Nevada, and so 

 Specimens examined from British 

 Hills, Macoun, 1880, 67 ; Bullrush Lake, Macoun, July 25, 

 1880, — both with narrower leaves than usual), Washington 

 (Pullman, Henderson, July 17, 1892, 2469), Oregon (Hall, 

 1871, 190; Walla Walla, Nuttall; Howell, 1887, 702; 

 Grant's Pass, Howell, 1887, 1145; Wasco Co., Suksdorf, 

 1886, 862), Montana (Sand Coulee, Anderson, July 1887; 

 Deer Lodge?, Notestein, 1892), Nevada (Carson Valley, 



Watson, Aug. 1867, 413; Truckee Valley, Baile 

 413), and California (Vasey, 1875; Mrs. Aust 



July 



Elmira, Mrs. Curran, Aug 



San 



n 



Cleveland, 1882, 868, and Orcutt, 1887, 1119; S 



Obispo, Brandegee, July 

 Santa Monica. Hasse, Ju 



nier 



1876, 145* ; 

 !o.. Greene, 



1876, 892; Gilroy, Brandegee, June 1885; Antioch, 



'o 



June 8, 1892 ; Mt 



Brandegee, June 23, 1891 and Aug. 



Monterey Co., 



1893; Snow Mt., 



1892; Byron, Brandegee, June 



Congdon, June 1881). 



B. stricta (Gray). — Gay ophy turn strictum Gray 

 Proc. Amer. Acad., 1867, vii. 340.— Oenothera Torrey 



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