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tips curving downward, short-petioled ; inflorescence crowded with flowers and fruits concealed 

 by the leaves, buds erect ; hypanthium Z-7 mm. long, with inner ring of hairs about one-third way 

 from base ; sepals 4-10 mm. long, usually distinct and reflexed in anthesis ; petals crimson to 

 purple, sometimes with darker spot, not clawed, cuneate to obovate, 5-20 mm. long ; stamens un- 

 equal ; capsule glabrate to pubescent, 1-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, usually enlarged at middle, 

 strongly 8-ribbed, sessile or short-pedicellate, not beaked, terete when fresh, usually square when 

 dry ; seeds 1 mm. long, slightly thicker, with minute cresting. 



Not common, dry open valleys, Upper Sonoran Zone; San Francisco Bay region. Type locality: "West- 

 ern Coast of North America." May-June. 



Godetia purpurea var. parviflora (S. Wats.) C. L. Hitchcock, Bot. Gaz. 89: 335. 1930. {Oenothera 

 lepida var. parviflora S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 597. 1873; Godetia lepida Lindl. Bot. Reg. 22: pi. 1849. 

 1836; G. albescens Lindl. op. cit. 27: misc. 61. 1841; G. decumbens Spach, Hist, Veg. 4: 388. 1835; G. miaope- 

 tala Greene, Pittonia 1: 32. 1887; G. lanata Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41: 317. 1906; G. purpurea var. Elmeri Jepson, 

 Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 345. 1907; G. purpurea var. procera Jepson, op. cit. 346; G. purpurea var. lacunarum 

 Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 679. 1925; G. Goddardii var. capitata Jepson, op. cit. 678.) Leaves 3-12 mm. wide, 

 lanceolate to spatulate, pubescent, never glaucous in appearance, with tips erect; capsule pubescent to densely 

 lanate. Dry slopes and valleys. Upper Sonoran Zone; in the cismontane region from Salem, Oregon, to southern 

 California. Type locality: northern California. 



3. Godetia amoena (Lehm.) G. Don. Farewell-to-spring. Fig. 3398. 



Oenothera amoena Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 8. 1821. 



Oenothera Lindleyi Dougl. Bot. Mag. 55: pi. 2832. 1828. 



Godetia rubicunda Und\. Bot. Reg. 22 : />/. i55<5. 1836. 



Godetia vinosa Lindl. op. cit. pi. 1880. 



Godetia amoena G. Don in Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3. 237. 1839. 



Godetia grandiflora Lindl. Bot. Reg. 27 : misc. 61. 1841. 



Godetia caurina Abrams ex Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 410. 1906. 



Godetia Blasdatei Jepson, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 330. 1907. 



Erect, simple to diff'usely branched, 1.5-10 dm. tall. Leaf blades lanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, 2- 

 10 mm. wide, with petioles 5-15 mm. long; buds erect or slightly drooped; hypanthium 4-10 mm. 

 long, with inner ring of hairs one-third to one-half way from base ; sepals 8-25 mm. long, gen- 

 erally united in anthesis ; petals pink to purple, often with darker spot in center, cuneate to 

 obovate, l.S-4 cm. long, with claw as much as 1.5 mm. long; stamens unequal to subequal ; 

 stigma-lobes linear, 2-7 mm. long, yellow; capsule 1.5-4 cm. long, 2 mm. or more thick, linear, 

 not enlarged above center, with or without short beak, usually pedicelled, deeply 4-sulcate when 

 immature and with a rather inconspicuous nerve between the grooves, terete and plainly nerved 

 when mature or dry; seeds 0.5 by 1.5 mm., brown, with inconspicuous cresting. 



Dry slopes at edge of coastal woods, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; British Columbia to Monterey, 

 California. Type locality: "America septentrionalis." Exceedingly variable. June-Aug. 



Godetia amoena var. sonomensis C. L. Hitchcock, Bot. Gaz. 89: 338. 1930. Petals 1.5-4 cm. long, dark 

 lavender, usually with darker spot; stigma-lobes 3-7 mm. long, linear; capsule sessile, considerably enlarged a 

 little above the middle. Slopes of Sonoma County, California. Type locality: near Glen Ellen, Sonoma County. 



Godetia amoena var. albicaulis Jepson, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 329. 1907. (Godetia lassenensis Eastw, 

 Leaflets West. Bot. 2: 281. 1940.) Petals light lavender, not spotted, 2-4 cm. long; stigma-lobes linear, 3-6 mm. 

 long; capsule sessile or nearly so, 4-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 mm. thick, linear, with a beak 5-10 mm. long. Butte and 

 Shasta Counties, California. Type locality: Butte County. 



Godetia amoena var. gracilis (Piper) C. L. Hitchcock, Bot. Gaz. 89: 342. 1930. (G. gracilis Piper in Piper 

 & Beattie, Fl. Northw. Coast. 251. 1915.) Capsule nearly sessile, with or without a short beak; petals 1-2 cm. 

 long; stigma-lobes oval, 1 mm. long. Dry plains. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones, British Columbia to 

 Oregon. Type locality: Silvertown, Oregon. 



Godetia amoena var. c6ncolor Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 334. 1901. Petals 1-1.5 cm long; stigma-lobes 

 oval, 1 mm. long; capsule pedicelled, with a beak 3-7 mm. long. California. Butte County to Napa and bl Dorado 

 Counties. Type locality: Pope Valley Grade, Napa County. 



4. Godetia Whitneyi (A. Gray) T. Moore. Giant or Whitney's Godetia. 



Fig. 3399. 



Oenothera Whitneyi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 340. 1865. 



Godetia Whitneyi T. Moore, Flor. & PomoL 101. 1871. 



Oenothera grandiflora S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 596. 1873, in part. 



Godetia grandiflora Jepson, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 2: 347. 1907, in part. 



Erect, stout, simple or with closely crowded branches above ; stems 2^ .5 dm. tall, finely 

 pubescent. Leaf-blades lance-ovate to ovate, 3-6 cm. long, with petioles 2-10 mm. long; buds 

 erect; hypanthium broad at summit, 8-11 mm. long, with mner rmg of hairs about one-third 

 way from base; sepals 1.5-3 cm. long, united in anthesis; petals lavender, with dark or red 

 splotch near base, cuneate to obovate, 4-6 cm. long, with claw 1-2 mm. long ; stamens unequal ; 

 stigma-lobes linear, yellow, 6-7 mm. long; ovary densely canescent ; capsule broadly tusitorm, 

 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. thick, round in cross-section with 8 prominent ribs sessile or with 

 pedicel as long as 3 mm.; seeds 1.5 mm. long, brown, covered with mmute cellular pubescence 

 and with fairly well-developed cresting. 



Hills near the coast. Upper Sonoran Zone; Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, California. Type locality: 

 Shelter Cove, Humboldt County. June-July. 



