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Eiver, Chandler 1471a; Klamath Hills near Yreka, Butler 1375. Sacramento Valley: Main 

 Prairie, Solano Co., Jepson 14,342; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; "Willows, Glenn Co., 

 Jepson 14,345. Sierra Nevada; Three Elvers, Tulare Co., K. Brandegee ; Owens Creek, Mariposa 

 Co., Jepson 12,761; Murphys Camp, Calaveras Co., Bavy 1533; Drytown, Amador Co., Hansen; 

 New York Eavine, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee; Crescent Mills, Plumas Co., Heller 4" Kennedy 

 8827; betw. Payne Creek and Mineral, Tehama Co., J. Grinnell; Stillwater Creek, Shasta Co., 

 Blankinship. 



Var. vacensis Jepson. Stems slender, often branched at the base, the tips somewhat whip- 

 like; flowers very remote; capsules slender, 1^4 inches long. — Vaca Mts., Solano Co. 



Var. davyi Jepson. Leaf -blades all or mainly oblong and mostly obtuse, 4 to 6 (or 9) lines 

 long; midrib of valves of capsule prominent, accessory ribs none. — Along the coast line, San 

 Luis Obispo Co. to Del Norte Co. 



Locs. — Morro, San Luis Obispo Co., Gondii; Ocean View, San Francisco, Heller 8382; Pt. 

 Eeyes, Davy 6701 ; Humboldt Bay, Tracy 2592; Lake Earl, Del Norte Co., Paries 8276. 



Var. rubrissima Jepson. Petals roundish-ovate, 4^^ to 6V2 lines long, uniformly deep 

 reddish-purple; ovaries canescent; capsules strigulose-pubescent. — Coastal S. Cal. : Box Springs 

 Mt., Eiverside; Escondido, San Diego Co., Carl Meyer 108. 



Var. lanata Jepson comb. n. Inflorescence often congested; ovary densely lanate; capsule 

 more or less lanate or hairy, 8 to 13 lines long. — Monterey Co.: Bardin switch, K. Brandegee; 

 Lucia, E. Brandegee. 



Var. elmeri Jepson comb. n. Flowers loosely spicate below the dense terminal cluster of 

 buds; petals broadly ovate, dark red, 7 lines long; capsule stout, rather short. — Coast Eanges 

 (Dinsmore ranch. Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4244; Halls Valley, Mt. Hamilton Eange, 

 Pendleton 832) ; Santa Barbara Co. (Santa Eita, Condit). 



Var. capitata Jepson comb. n. Stem about 20 inches high, with simple secondary branches 

 from the base, 21/4: to 6 inches long; herbage puberulent; flowers in head-like bracteate clusters 

 at end of branches; ovaries densely pilose. — Southern Fresno Co., near the Sierra Nevada foot- 

 hills. 



Eefs. — GODETIA QUADRIVULNERA Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. 4:389 (1835) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 334 (1901), ed. 2, 280 (1911), Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:340 (1907), Man. 678 (1925). Oeno- 

 thera quadrivulnera Dougl.; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1119 (1827), type from "northwest of North 

 America", Douglas. 0. prismatica var. quadrivulnera Levi. Monog. Onoth. 267 (1908). ClarMa 

 quadrivulnera Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 65:63 (1918). Oenothera viminea var. intermedia Kell. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 1:61 (1855), type loc. Alameda, Nevins. 0. quadrivulnera var. hirsuta Kell. 

 Proc. Cal. Acad. 5:45 (1873), type loc. Petaluma, Harford. G. micropetala Greene, Pitt. 1:32 

 (1887), type loc. Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., Greene. G. purpurea var. procera Jepson, 

 Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:346 (1907), type loc. Berkeley, Bioletti. G. quadrivulnera f. setchelliana 

 Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:341 (1907), type loc. Soquel Canon, Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson 

 13,335; var. setchelliana Jepson, Man. 678 (1925). G. quadrivulnera var. hallii Jepson, Univ. 

 Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:341 (1907), type loc. Box Springs Mt., Eiverside, Hall 6241; Man. 678 (1925), 

 G. qiLadrivulnera var. apiculata" Season, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:341 (1907), type loc. Howell Mt., 

 Jepson 2441; Man. 678 (1925), buds slender-apiculate. G. goddardii Jepson, Univ. Cal. PubL 

 Bot. 2:342 (1907), type loc. Hupa wagon trail near Eedwood Creek, Humboldt Co., Jepson 1971; 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 280 (1911) ; Man. 678 (1925). G. albescens var. micropetala Jepson, Fl. 

 W. Mid. Cal. 334 (1901). G. ^rod^ardii var. mf^rMeZiia Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:342 (1907), 

 type loc. San Miguelito Eancho, Monterey Co., Jepson 1625; Man. 678 (1925). Var. vacensis 

 Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:341 (1907), type loc. Vaca Mts., Jepson; Man. 678 (1925); 

 Htck. Bot. Gaz. 329 (1930). G. quadrivulnera f. ftagellata Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:341 

 (1907), type loc. Vaca Mts., Jepson 13,340; var. flagellata Jepson, Man. 678 (1925). Var. 

 DAVYI Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:341 (1907), type loc. Pt. Eeyes, Davy 6701; Man. 678 

 (1925). Var. RUBPassiMA Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:342 (1907), type loc. Box Springs 

 Mts., Eiverside, Hall 6240 ; Man. 678 (1925). Var. lanata Jepson. G. lanata Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 

 41:318 (1906), type loc. Bardin switch, Monterey Co., Elmer 4376. Var. elmeri Jepson. G. 

 purpurea var. elmeri Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:345 (1907), type loc. Santa Barbara, Elmer 

 3792; Man. 679 (1925). G. purpurea var. parviflora"Rtck. Bot. Gaz. 89:335 (1930), at least as 

 to California plants. Var. capitata Jepson. G. goddardii f. capitata Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. 

 Bot. 2:342 (1907), type loc. Centerville, Fresno Co., Jepson 2745; var. capitata Armstrong & 

 Thornber. Field Book Western Wild Fls. 318 (1915). 



6. G. purpurea G. Don. Valley Godetia. Stems prevailingly simple and 

 usually stoutish, % to 2 feet high, the flowers capitately congested at the summit 

 or disposed in the upper axils of the leafy stem, the single flowers sometimes re- 

 placed by a cluster of 2 to 4 and borne on very short branchlets; herbage minutely 

 pubescent; leaf -blades ovatish-oblong or oblong, obtusish or merely acute, the 

 upper oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate, sessile or 

 very shortly petioled, 1/2 to 1% inches long; buds commonly pilose, their calyx-tips 



