EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 579 



Hill slopes facing the ocean : southwestern Humboldt Co. July, 

 Historical note. — Godetia whitneyi, as based on Bolander 6534, appears to grow only at 

 Shelter Cove on the Humboldt coast. We have seen no native specimens save those collected by 

 Bolander in 1866, which are remarkable for their large flower buds, large petals, short capsules 

 and condensed inflorescence. The little flat of eighty acres at Shelter Cove, the original station, 

 has been, says Jos. P. Tracy, under close agricultural occupation for sixty years and the species 

 may now be extinct. In any event it has not been found by field students elsewhere along the 

 coast and probably only thrice at Shelter Cove. Its fusiform capsule would appear to be very 

 peculiar. Possibly Godetia whitneyi, with its condensed inflorescence and large flowers, was 

 derived as a mutant from G. amoena, just as G. purpurea may be regarded as a condensed state 

 of G. quadrivulnera. Or it may be a fortuitous variation Avhich is not yet well-established or 

 dispersed, just as we occasionally find localized plants of G. quadrivulnera which develop ex- 

 tremely dense flowering and fruiting clusters, especially when the axis is more or less fasciated. 

 Eefs. — Godetia whitneyi T. Moore, Flor. & Pomol. 101 (1871). Oenothera whitneyi Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. 7:340, 400 (1868), type loc. Shelter Cove, Humboldt Co., Bolander 6534; 

 Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 5867 (1870). 0. auricula var. whitneyi Levi. Monog. Onoth. 270 (1908). 

 ClarJcia whitneyi Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 65:61 (1918). G. grandiflora Jepson, Man, 679 (1925), 

 notLindley (1841). 



3. G. viminea Spach. Farewell-to-Spring. Stems whitish and shining 

 or sometimes reddish above, strictly erect and simple or with simple suberect 

 branches, 1 to 3 feet high; herbage finely pubescent, the older parts of the stem 

 glabrescent; leaf -blades linear to lanceolate, entire, narrowed at base to a short 

 petiole or the upper sessile and commonly eonduplicate, % to 2 inches long; buds 

 erect; calyx-tube broadly vase-shaped or narrowly campanulate, whitish-mem- 

 branous, 3 to 5I/2 lines long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, distinct, primly 

 reflexed, their tips free in the bud ; petals purplish or crimson, with a large purple 

 splotch in center or at apex, and often yellow at base, cuneate-obovate, truncatish, 

 6 to 12 lines long; stamens about i/o the length of the petals or less; anthers white, 

 longer than the filaments; style as long as or longer than the stamens; stigmas 

 purple, hispidulose ; capsules 4-sided with 2 ribs on each side, or those of the lateral 

 faces obscure or wanting, puberulent or subglabrous, % to % (or 1) inch long, 

 sessile or rarely with a pedicel ^ line long; seed very short, weakly margined. 



Dry hill slopes, 1300 to 4700 feet : Tehachapi Mts., Sierra Nevada foothills from 

 Kern Co. to Eldorado Co. North to Oregon. May-July. 



Locs. — Tehachapi Mts.: Tejon Canon, Kern Co., Coville 4" Funston 1217. Sierra Nevada: 

 Havilah, Kern Co., Coville 4" Funston 1071; Upper Grouse Valley, Tulare Co., Jepson 4711; 

 North Fork Kaweah Eiver, Jepson 572; betw. Clarks Valley and Squaw Valley, s. Fresno Co., 

 Jepson 2747; Auberry, Fresno Co., Jepson 12,886; Big Mdws., betw. Coulterville and Yosemite, 

 Jepson 14,364; Yosemite, Docia Patchett; Hetch-Hetchy, Jepson 3412; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., 

 Jepson 6448; Jackson, C. L. Hitchcoch 31; Eldorado, Calaveras Co., Greene. 



Var. incerta Jepson. Very leafy, 7 to 15 inches high; petals deep crimson, 6 to 10 lines 

 long ; capsules abundant, 8-ribbed ; stigmas oval. — Meadows, Yosemite Valley. 



Eefs. — Godetia viminea Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. 4 :389 (1835) ; Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 

 2:336 (1907), Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 280 (1911), Man. 677 (1925). Oenothera viminea Dougl.; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2873 (1828), type from "interior of northern California", that is, Oregon, 

 Douglas. 0. prismatica var. viminea Levi. Monog. Onoth. 265 (1908). ClarMa viminea Nels. & 

 Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 65:64 (1918), in part. Oenothera williamsonii D. & H. Pac. E. Eep. 5:7, pi. 5 

 (1855), type loc. Fort Miller, Eeermann. G. williamsonii Wats. ; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1 :230 (1876). 

 Oenothera auricula var. tenella sub-var. williamsonii Levi. Monog. Onoth. 271 (1908). G. viminea 

 var. congdonii Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:338 (1907), type loc. Hetch-Hetchy, Congdon; 

 Man. 677 (1925) ; Htck. Bot. Gaz. 89:346 (1930). Var. incerta Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ, Bot. 

 2:339 (1907), type loc. Yosemite Valley, Jepson 14,365; Man. 677 (1925), 



4. G. parviflora Jepson. Rose Godetia. Stems usually diffusely branching 

 from the base, 1/4 to 214 feet long, the branches numerous and wiry; leaf -blades 

 narrowly lanceolate or linear, 5 to 12 lines long, the lowest oblong or oblong-ovate; 

 calyx in bud 4-sided and its lobe-tips free, the segments in anthesis commonly dis- 

 tinct; calyx-tube pinkish, long and slender (2i/^ to 7% lines long), usually longer 

 than the ovary and commonly swollen slightly at the summit of ovary; petals 

 cuneate-obovate, rose-red, 4 to 10 lines long; filaments of stamens usually subequal; 

 style nearly or quite equaling the petals; stigmas purple, elliptic, somewhat united 



