184 ONAGRACEAE 



straight or curved, 4-angled, 1 .5-3 cm. long, sessile or nearly so ; seeds brown, obliquely cylindric, 

 1.5 mm. long. 



Dry slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; Kern County and Los Angeles County, California, especially in the 

 mountains bordering the western edge of the Mojave Desert. Type locality: Fort Taj on, Kern County. May- 

 June. 



5. Clarkia pulchella Pursh. Beautiful Clarkia. Fig. 3393. 



Clarkia pulchella Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1 : 260. pi. 11. 1814. 



Simple to dififusely branched, 1-5 dm. tall, finely pubescent to strigillose, very leafy. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate to spatulate, sessile or with petiole up to 1 cm. long, the blades entire or re- 

 motely denticulate, 2-7 cm. long, acuminate to acute, upper leaves not much reduced ; flowers in 

 a short crowded spike which elongates in fruit ; buds nodding ; hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, lav- 

 ender, without inner hairs; sepals usually united in anthesis, lavender, 1-1.5 cm. long; petals 

 lavender to purple, with lighter veins, 1.5-3 cm. long, 3-lobed, the lobes 6-10 mm. long, about 

 equal in length, the middle one usually wider than lateral ones, claw quite narrow, one-half to 

 one-third as long as blade, with a divaricate tooth on each side ; stamens in 2 sets, the longer 

 ones 3-8 mm. long, with erect scale at base ; anthers coiling after dehiscence ; stigma-lobes 

 rounded, 1-3 mm. long; capsule 1-2.5 cm. long, straight or arcuate, 8-ribbed, grooved on each 

 face, appearing square when dry, with pedicel 3-10 mm. long; seeds brown, depressed, oblique, 

 not angled, 1 mm. long. 



Dry slopes. Upper Sonoran and lower Transition Zones; eastern British Columbia and Washington to 

 Montana and South Dakota. Type locality: opposite the town of Kamiah, Idaho, on the Kooskooskie River. 

 May-July. 



6. Clarkia Breweri (A. Gray) Greene. Brewer's Clarkia. Fig. 3394. 



Eucharidium Breweri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 532. 1865. 

 Clarkia Breweri Greene, Pittonia 1: 141. 1887. 

 Clarkia Saxeana Greene, op. cit. 140. 



Simple or branched, with stems 1-2 dm. tall, finely pubescent. Leaf-blades lanceolate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, acute, entire, glabrate, on petioles 5-10 mm. long ; inflorescence 

 sparsely strigillose, flowers few; hypanthium 2.5-3 cm. long, conspicuously swollen at juncture 

 with ovary, finely pubescent within, but lacking scales or band of hair ; sepals reddish or green, 

 united in anthesis; petals rose-pink, 1.5—2.5 cm. long, obcordate, with the central lobe merely a 

 spatulate appendage from the sinus and one-third or one-fourth as wide as the lateral lobes, the 

 sinus 4-6 mm. deep, the claw 3-4 mm. long ; corolla irregular ; stamens 4, equal, alternate with 

 the petals, anthers conspicuously ciliate-villous, not coiled after dehiscence ; stigma-lobes lance- 

 linear, 3 mm. long; capsule 2-3.5 cm. long, 2—3 mm. thick, sessile; seeds 3 mm. long, not pubes- 

 cent, but conspicuously transversely corrugated, brown, flattened, with very prominent cresting. 



Occasional on dry slopes. Upper Sonoran Zone; California from Napa County to San Benito and Fresno 

 Counties. Type locality: Mount Oso, Stanislaus County, California. May. 



7. Clarkia concinna (Fisch. & Mey.) Greene. Lovely Clarkia. Fig. 3395. 



Eucharidium concinnum Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2:37. 1835. 

 Eucharidium grandiflorum Fisch. & Mey. op. cit. 7: 48. 1840. 

 Clarkia concinna Greene, Pittonia 1: 140. 1887. 

 Clarkia grandiflora Greene, Fl. Fran. 223. 1891. 



Stem simple to freely branched, 1.5-4 dm. tall, glabrate below, strigillose above. Leaves 

 lance-ovate to broadly elliptic, 1.5-5 cm. long, acute, subentire, with petioles an additional 0.5-2 

 cm. long; flowers axillary, often crowded; hypanthium 1.5—2.5 cm. long, slender, yellow to 

 purple, finely pubescent within, but without scales or band of hair ; sepals reddish, or green, 1-2 cm. 

 long, united at tips in anthesis ; petals 1 .5-3 cm. long, 1-1 .5 cm. wide, deep pink to rose-lavender, 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe slightly exceeding the lateral ones in length and width, blade about twice 

 as long as claw ; stamens 4, alternate with petals, anthers ciliate-villous, curled after dehiscence ; 

 stigma-lobes 1 mm. long, equally broad; capsules 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. thick, sessile or 

 on short pedicels ; seeds minutely transversely corrugated, about 2 mm. long, flattened, with very 

 prominent cresting. 



Loose slopes, LTpper Sonoran Zone; Coast Ranges of California from Humboldt County to Santa Barbara 

 County. Type locality : Fort Ross, California. May-June. 



7. GODETIA Spach, Hist. Veg. 4: 386. 1835. 



Annuals, mostly erect, and with exfoliating epidermis on lower stems. Leaves linear 

 to spatulate, lower ones usually deciduous, upper ones reduced in size, secondary ones 

 born in fascicles. Inflorescence a spike or small panicle ; the flowers showy, white to 

 purple. Hypanthium obconic to narrowly funnelform, with an inner ring of hair; sepals 

 distinct and reflexed in anthesis or partially or wholly united and turned to one side. 

 Petals cuneate to obovate, entire to bilobed, clawless, or with short claw. Stamens in 2 

 series, the opposite ones shorter; filaments filiform to flattened; anthers subequal to equal, 

 usually wholly fertile. Stigma-lobes short, ovoid to linear, yellow to purple. Capsule 

 4-sulcate, terete and 8-nerved, heavily 8-ribbed, linear to ovoid, sessile to long-pedicelled. 



