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5. (tJODETIA, Spach. Erect simple or branching annnals. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or denticulate. Flowers mostly purple, showy, in leafy 

 spikes or racemes. Calyx-tube above the ovary obconic or short-ftmnel- 

 form, deciduous. Petals 4, broad, sessile, entire, emarginate or cleft, 

 diurnal and lasting for two days or more. Stamens 8, unequal, the fila- 

 ments opposite the petals shortest ; anthers perfect, elongated, attached 

 by the base, erect or arcuate-recurved. Ovary 4-celled, x -ovuled ; style 

 short ; stigma-lobes short, linear or roundish. Capsule ovate to linear, 

 4-sided, coriaceous, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds ascending or hori- 

 zontal, in 1 or 2 rows, obliquely angled, the upper part tuberculate- 

 margined. 



* Floirers in a strict dense spike; capsule ovate or oJdonq. 

 H— Tips of the catf/.i-lohes not free in the hud; sides of capsule not 2-costale: 

 seeds in 2 rows in each cell. 



1. Gr. graudittora, Lindl. Bot. Keg. xxvii. Misc. 61 (1841) & xxviii. t. 61. 

 (I^noihera Whilneyi, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 340 (1868). Puberulent : 

 stem stout, simple or with a few short branches near the siammit, 1 — 2 ft. 

 high : leaves lanceolate, 2—3 in. long, acute at each end, short-petioled, 

 obscurely repand-denticulate or entire : calyx-tube turbinate, 4 — 6 lines 

 long : petals 1 — 2 in. long, emarginate, pale purple with often a crimson 

 spot in the middle or toward the base : stigma-lobes linear, },^ in. long : 

 capsule oblong to linear, 8 — 15 lines long, xjuberulent, 4-toothed at 

 apex. — Humboldt and Mendocino counties. 



2. a. purpurea, Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 229 (1876) ; Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 

 3.52 (1796), under (Enolhera. G. Willdenoviana, Spach, Phaner. iv. 387 

 (1835). Stem erect, 6 — 15 in. high, puberulent : leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late-oblong, obtusish, entire, glaucescent : calyx-tube funnelform, as long 

 as the segments : petals broadly obovate, % in. long or more, crenulate, 

 deep purple : stamens much shorter than the petals : stigma lobes broad 

 and short, dark purple : capsule ovate-oblong, % — % ^^- long, hairy, the 

 sides nearly flat, with a strong midvein. — Mr. Watson attributes to this 

 species two rows of seeds in each cell of the capsule. No such plant hrs 

 been recognized by the present writer ; neither has he seen the plant 

 figured as the type of G. purpurea; nevertheless, it should be common 

 in some part of California. 



-1— -i— Tips of the calyor-lobes slightly free in the hud; capsule 2-costate on 

 at least lira of the sides (except in n. 3); seeds in 1 rotv in each cell. 



3. 0. dec urn bens, Spach, Phaner. iv. 388 (1835) ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 

 1221 (1829), under Oenothera: G. lepida, var. parvifloia, Wats. Stems 

 ascending, 1% ft. high, branching, sparsely hirsute : leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, entire, pubescent, glaucescent : fl. sessile in the axils, and shorter 

 than the leaves, red-purple : calyx-tube very short, half as long as the 



