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and turned to one side in anthesis, purplish-brown, the tips not free in the bud; 



calyx-tube with a dense ring of short white hairs at the mouth; petals broadly 



cuneate, emarginate or with a deep v-shaped notch at apex, 5 to 11 lines long; 



capsules 4-sided, weakly 8-ribbed, 5 to 7 (11) lines long, on pedicels % to 1 Ime long. 

 Openly wooded hill slopes, 25 to 2300 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills from Butte 



Co. to Mariposa Co.; Contra Costa Co. May- Aug. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Butte Co., Eartweg; Coloma, Eldorado Co., Palmer 2388; Jackson, 



E. Mulliken 108; Black Creek, Calaveras Co., Tracy 5638; Angels Camp, Bavy 1484b; Columbia, 



Jepson 6441 ; Priest Hill, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 8339 ; 

 Greeley Hill, Coulterville, H. M. Evans; Mt. Bullion, 

 Mariposa Co., Bolander 6364. Coast Eanges: Douuer 

 Canon, Mt. Diablo, Jepson 7585; Crockett, Tidestrom. 

 Var. brandegeae Jepson comb. n. Petals broad 

 (mostly 5 to 10 lines), shallowly notched. — Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Eldorado Co. to Nevada Co. 

 (Bear Eiver, Hall 10,155). 



Eefs.- — GoDETiA BILOBA "Wats.; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 

 1:231 (1876); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 333 (1901), 

 ed. 2, 279 (1911) ; Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:333 (1907), 

 Man. 675 (1925). Oenothera biloba Dur. Jour. Acad. 

 PhUa. ser. 2, 3 :87 (1855), type loc. Nevada City, Prat- 

 ten, Oenothera prismatica var. biloba Levi. Monog. 

 Onoth. 264 (1908), ClarTcia biloba Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. 

 Gaz. 65:60 (1918). Var. brandegeae Jepson. G. dud- 

 leyana f. brandegeae Jepson, Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot, 

 2 :334 (1907), type loc. Sweetwater Creek, Eldorado Co., 

 K. Brandcgee, May 29, 1907. G. dudleyana var. brande- 

 geae Jepson, Man. 675 (1925). 



12. G, epilobioides Wats. Canon Code- 

 tta. Stem slender, simple or nearly so, erect, 

 6 to 19 inches high; herbage minutely puberu- 

 lent; leaf -blades oblong to linear, thin, re- 

 motely and minutely toothed, 5 to 11 lines 

 long; petioles 1 to 3 lines long, the uppermost 

 leaves nearly sessile; flowers scattered; buds 

 nodding, the tips of the calyx-lobes not free; 

 calyx-tube i/4 (or %) line long; calyx-lobes 

 united and turned to one side in anthesis; pet- 

 als obovate, often very narrow, commonly 

 cream-yellow, rarely lavender-pink and dotted on the lower half, 3 to 4V2 lines 

 long; stamens about half the length of the petals; anthers slightly shorter than 

 filaments; stigmas very slightly lobed, as if capitate; capsules slender, 4-sided, 

 with plane or flattish faces, or with the reddish or brown midnerve somewhat de- 

 pressed, 10 to 121/2 lines long; pedicels 1 to 2I/2 lines long, sometimes very short 

 but always present. 



Shaded caiion slopes and in valleys, 300 to 2000 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills 

 from Stanislaus Co. to Fresno Co.; Colusa Co.; South Coast Ranges; coastal South- 

 ern California. South to Lower California. Apr.-May. 



Locs.— Sierra Nevada foothills: Stanislaus Co. (foothills), (Bot. Gaz. 89:358); Auberry, 

 Fresno Co., Jepson 12,893. Colusa Co. (Bot. Gaz. 89:358). South Coast Eanges: Antioch; San 

 Luis Mt., mioda Reed 470. S. Cal.: Casmalia, Santa Barbara Co., K. Brandegee ; Pelican Bay, 

 Santa Cruz IsL, Abrams 4- Wiggins 9; Monrovia Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 433; East 

 Fork Santa Anita Canon, San Gabriel Mts., J. T. Howell 3777 ; San Bernardino foothills. Parish; 

 Banning, M. F. Gilman 23; San Jacinto Eiver, Jepson 1265; Menifee, Alice King; Moro Hills 

 near Fallbrook, Abrams 3331; San Diego, K. Brandegee. 



Var. modesta Jepson comb. n. (Fig. 255.) Calyx-tube 1 line long; petals pink, oblong, 

 acute, narrowed at base to a short but slender and distinct claw. — San Carlos Eange. 



Eefs.— GoDETiA EPILOBIOIDES Wats.; B. & W. Bot. Cal. 1:231 (1876) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. 

 Cal. 333 (1901), Univ. Cal. Publ. Bot. 2:343 (1907), Man. 678 (1925) ; Htck. Bot. Gaz. 89:357 

 (1930). Oenothera epilobioides Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. 1:511 (1840), type loc. San Diego, Nuttall. 



Fig. 255. GoDETiA EPILOBIOIDES Wats. 

 var. MODESTA Jepson. a, base of plant, 

 X V2; b, upper part of plant, X % ; 

 c, fl., X 1 ; d, petal, X 1% ; e, capsule, 

 X 1. 



