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branched, more or less hispid-pubescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 6 - 9" long, obtuse, entire ; calyx-tube very short, obconic ; petals ob- 

 cordate, rose-color, 1" long ; capsule cylindrical-clavate, 6 - 9" long, 

 attenuate at base into a spreading pedicel half as long ; seeds 1" long, 

 the margins thin and incurved, minutely cellularly tuberculate. — 

 Foot-hills of the Trinity Mts., Northwestern Nevada.* 



§ 6. GODETIA, Spach. Stigma-lobes short, linear or roundish ; 

 calyx-tube obconic or short-funnelform ; petals flabelliform, lilac- 

 purple or rose-color ; stamens unequal, the petaline filaments the 

 shortest ; anthers oblong, fixed near the base, erect or becoming 

 arcuate ; capsules ovate to linear, subcoriaceous, 4-sided ; seeds 

 horizontal, in one row, angled, vertically compressed, partially 

 imbricated, and so the upper surface margined by a thin tuber- 

 culate crest. Annuals, simple or branching. 



* Capsule ovate to oblong, sessile ; stems erect, leafy, usually stout 

 and strict, the flowers in a strict compacted spike, erect in the 

 bud. 



52. CE. grandiflora. (Godetia, Lindl. (E. Whitneyi, Gray.) 

 Stem 1-2° high, simple or with a few short branches near the top ; 

 puberulent ; leaves lanceolate, 1-3' long, acute at each end or attenu- 

 ate into a short petiole, obscurely repand-denticulate or entire ; spike 

 crowded ; calyx-tube broadly obconical, 4 - 6" long, the tips not free ; 

 petals 1-2' long, broad, emarginate, rose-color or light purple with 

 often a large crimson spot in the centre ; stigma-lobes linear, 3" long ; 

 capsule fusiform-oblong, 8 - 15" long, 3- 4" broad, sessile or nearly so, 

 shortly pubescent, the sides, not costate ; seeds \" long, very minutely 

 pitted. — Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, California, on hillsides 

 and benches. 



53. CE. purpurea, Curtis. Mostly very leafy, 1-2° high, canes- 

 cently puberulent, the ovary hirsutely villous ; leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1-3' long, obtuse or acute, entire, sessile with an obtuse or 

 attenuate base ; flowers mostly in a leafy terminal cluster ; calyx-tube 



* CE. arbokea, Kellogg, from the Cerros Islands, off the coast of Lower Cali- 

 fornia, is a well-marked species allied to those of this section. It is described as 

 suffrutescent, erect and branched, 6-8° high, with small linear-lanceolate sessile 

 entire villous leaves, flowers in dense erect spikes, the slender funnelform calyx- 

 tube 1' long (including the ovary ?), the purplish petals 3" long, capsules 3- 12" 

 long, 1^" broad, erect upon stout divaricate pedicels which are 3-6" long; the 

 seeds are linear-oblong, l£" long. 



