Evening-primrose Family 267 



ments opposite the petals shortest : anthers perfect, 

 elongated, basifixed, erect or arcuate-recurved. Ovary 

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

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

 coriaceous, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds in 1 or 2 rows, 

 obliquely angled, the upper part tuberculate-margined. 



* Flowers erect in the bud. 



1. G. quadrivulnera Spach. Steins 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 vil- 

 lous. 



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. 



** Flowers drooping in the bud. 



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 appreseed 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. 



4. G. Dudleyana. Stems erect, simple below, more or less 

 branched above, 3-6 dm. high; herbage puberulent throughout 

 with rather short curved hairs ; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire 



