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6. GODETIA Spach. 



Erect simple or branching annuals, with alternate 

 entire or denticulate leaves, and mostly purple flowers, 

 showy In leafy spikes or racemes. Calyx-tube obconic 

 or short-funnelform, deciduous. Petals 4, broad, sessile, 

 entire, emarglnate or cleft. Stamens 8, unequal, the fila- 

 ments opposite the petals shortest; anthers perfect, 

 elongated, baslfixed, erect or arcuate-recurved. Ovary 

 4-celled, many-ovuled; style short; stigma-lobes short, 

 linear or roundish. Capsule ovate to linear, 4-sIded, 

 coriaceous, locullcldally dehiscent. Seeds In 1 or 2 rows, 

 obliquely angled, the upper part tuberculate-margined. 



1. G. quadrivulnera Spach. Stems slender, 3-6 dm. high, 

 puberulent; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, entire or sparsely 

 denticulate; calyx-tube obconic, 4-6 mm. long; petals purplish, 

 often with a dark spot at summit, 6-12 mm. long; stigma-lobes 

 purple, short; capsule 12-18 mm. long, attenuate at apex, bicostate 

 at the alternate angles, puberulent or somewhat villous. 



Common on dry hillsides and open places in the chaparral belt. 



2. G. viminea Spach. Stems erect, 3-6 dm. high, nearly or 

 quite glabrous; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, 2.5-5 cm. long; 

 calyx-tube 4-6 mm. long; petals purple, 2-3 cm. long; stamens 

 short, nearly equal; stigma-lobes purple, linear-oblong; capsule 

 2-3 cm. long, somewhat bicostate on the sides, pubescent. 



Occasional in open grassy places in the foothills. 



3. G. bottae Spach. Stems erect, 3-6 dm. high, nascent parts 

 puberulent, otherwise glabrous; leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous 

 or sparsely puberulent, denticulate; flowers abruptly reflexed in the 

 bud; well developed bud about 2 cm. long, acutish; petals pink, often 

 paler below and specked with purple, mostly 2.5-3 cm. long, cuneate, 

 tapering from the truncate apex to the sessile base; stigma-lobes 

 broadly obovate, usually purple; capsule linear, about 4 mm. long, 

 not at all costate, its beak short and nearly as broad, cinereous with 

 a short appressed pubescence. 



Common in the Santa Monica Mountains and in the foothills 

 about Los Angeles. G. pulcherrima Greene is apparently the same, 

 Dr. Greene having evidently confused this species with the next. 



