EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 583 



slender acute tips, 2 to 2^/2 inches long; flowers few in tlie upper axils, the buds 

 large, nodding, ovate, acute; calyx-tube 2 to 3 lines long, often purple inside, the 

 lobes remaining united and turned to one side; petals fanshaped, lilac, 10 to 15 

 lines long, usually retuse at the more or less truncate apex; style much longer, 

 often twice longer than stamens; anthers yellow; ovary sparingly puberulent and 

 also with a few short gland-tipped hairs ; stigmas linear ; capsules 8-ribbed (the ribs 

 separated by broad sharply defined channels, those opposite the partitions broader) , 

 about 12 lines long, with a beak 2^/2 to 3 lines long, the pedicels 21/4 to 5 lines long; 

 seeds sharply pointed at one end, the other end obliquely flattened and with a 

 thin margin. 



Hill slopes, 1000 to 2000 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills from Eldorado Co. to 

 Mariposa Co. May-June. 



Locs. — American Elver, Eldorado Co., comm. Alice King; Placervllle, K. Brandegee ("this 

 is Oenothera arcuata Kellogg", K. Brandegee) ; Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., K. Brandegee; 

 Pine Grove, Amador Co., Hansen 1157; Harmon Peak, Calaveras Co., Davy 1407; Chinese Camp, 

 Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6327; Benton Mills, Mariposa Co., Congdon. 



Refs.— GODETIA ARCUATA Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:335 (1907), Man. 675 (1925). 

 Oenothera arcuata Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 1:58 (1855), type loc. Placerville, Garvett. Clarlcia 

 arcuata Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 65 :62 (1918). Oenothera hispidula Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8:599 

 (1873), type collected by Fremont in the "Sacramento Valley." G. hispidula Wats.; B. & W. 

 Bot. Cal. 1:231 (1876). Oenothera pulcherrima Levi. Monog. Onoth. 261 (1908), in part; not 

 G. pulcherrima Greene (1891). G. hansenii Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:336 (1907), type 

 loc. Armstrong sta., Amador Co., Hansen 1090; Man. 676 (1925). 



8. G. bottae Spach. Hill Godetia. Stem slender, erect, simple or more com- 

 monly branching at or from the base, 1 to 3i/4 feet high; leaf -blades linear or lance- 

 olate, or the lower oblong, remotely denticulate, % to 21/2 inches long, petioled or 

 sessile; flowers axillary but falsely terminal through usurpation, the growing cap- 

 sules thrusting the shoot to one side so that the latter seems proliferous; pedicels 

 14 to 2 lines or none; flower buds nodding, slender-ovate, abruptly tipped with a 

 slender short point; calyx-tube very short, 1 to l^^ lines long; calyx-lobes turned to 

 one side, united in anthesis, commonly crimson-tinted; petals pink or light crimson, 

 obovate, truncatish, 8 to 13 lines long; stamens equaling the style; stigma deeply 

 parted into 4 oblong or elliptic lobes but united at base so as to form a swollen 

 somewhat cup-shaped apex to the style; capsrfles scattered, rather distinctly 4-sided 

 with the plane sides not at all ribbed or obscurely so, % line broad, 11 to 16 lines 

 long, on pedicels 1/2 to 1% inches long; seeds all over minutely granulate. 



Grassy hill and chapa'rral slopes, 50 to 1000 feet : South Coast Ranges in Mon- 

 terey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Cos. May-June. 



Locs.— Pajaro Hills, Monterey Co., Chandler 450 ; San Juan grade, San Benito Co., C. L. 

 mtchcocJc 35; Del Eey Caiion, Monterey Co., E. Ferguson 257; Sans Mill, Santa Lucia Mts., 

 Jepson 1685; Paso Eobles, Barber; Estrella, Jared; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Santa Barbara, 

 A. L. Grant 1697. 



Var. deflexa Htck. Ovary straight and deflexed before anthesis ; flowers usually m a closer 

 spike than in the species.— Along the coast, Santa Barbara Co. to Orange Co. : Santa Inez Mts. 

 (Gaviota, Elmer 3848); San Gabriel Mts. (Monrovia Canon, Peirson 432); Santa Ana Mts. 

 (Santa Ana Canon, Orange Co., C. L. Hitchcock 99). 



Eefs. — Godetia bottae Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. ser. 3, 4:393 (1835), type loc. 

 Monterey, Botta; Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:330 (1907), Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 279 (1911), 

 Man. 676 (1925). Oenothera hottae T. & G. Fl. 1:505 (1840). 0. godetia Steud. Nom. ed. 2, 

 2:206 (1841). G. bottae var. usitata Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:332 (1907), type loc. San 

 Bernardino, Parish 3672 (ring of hairs at summit of calyx-tube). Var. deflexa Htck. Bot. Gaz. 

 89:355 (1930). G. deflexa Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:332 (1907), type loc. "sandy plains 

 of Los Angeles", W. Lobb ; Man. 676 (1925). G. pulcherrima Greene, Pitt. 2:217 (1891), type 

 loc. Los Angeles Co., W. F. Wheeler. 



9. G. cylindrica Htck. Band Godetia. Stem simple or at least rather strict, 

 7 to 20 inches high, few-flowered; leaf -blades narrowly linear or subfiliform, 14 

 to 1/2 line wide; calyx indigo-purple; calyx-tube with a ring of white hairs at mid- 

 dle; petals obovate, truncatish, lilac-purple, or paler with a sprinkling of dark 



