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234 ONAGRACE. PACHYLOPHUS. 
GODETIA. 
cordate, 9-20 lines long: capsule oblong 1-214 inches long by 3-6 lines in 
diameter, subattenuate at each end, sessile or short-pediceled, strongly 
ribbed at the sides and often with a double crest along the sutures: seeds 
in two rows in each cell, oval oblong, not angled, very minutely and 
densely tubercled upon the back, with a thin flattened process and a longi- 
tudinal furrow on the ventral side. Oregon and Idaho to California, Da- 
kota and New Mexico. 
11 GODETTIA Spach. 1. ec. 
Simple owbranched erect annuals with alternate leaves and 
showy flowers in racemes or spikes. Calyx-tube above the 
ovary obconic or shortly funnelform, deciduous. Petals 4, 
broad and sessile, entire or emarginate or very rarely 2-lobed, 
lilac-purple or rose-color. Stamens 8, unequal, the filaments op- 
posite the petals shorter: anthers all perfect, oblong attached at 
the base and erect or arcuate. Ovary 4-celled, many-ovuled. 
Style filiform : stigma-lobes short, linear or roundish. Capsule 
ovate to linear, 4-sided, somewhat coriaceous, loculicidally de- 
hiscent. Seeds ascending or horizontal, in one or two rows in 
each cell, obliquely angled, the upper surface with a thin tuber- 
culate margin. ; 
* Capsule ovate to oblong, sessile, stems erect, leafy, usually stout 
and striet; the flowers in a strict compact spike erect in the bud. 
G. purpurea Watson Bot. Cal. i, 229. Mostly very leafy, 1-2 feet 
high, canescently-puberulent, the ovary hirsutely villous; leaves oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, obtuse or acute, entire, sessile with an 
obtuse or attenuate base; flowers mostly in a leafy terminal cluster; calyx- 
tube 2-3 lines long, the tips not free; petals 4-6 lines long, deep purple; 
style shorter than the stamens, the stigma-lobes very short, purple; cap- 
sule ovate to linear-o' long, 6-9 lines long, acute, not attenuate at base, 
be the sides nearly flat, ribbed. From the valley of the Columbia to 
alifornia. 
G. lepida Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxii, t. 1849. Erect, 6-24 inches high, can- 
escently-puberulent, the stem usually white and shining; leaves oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, usually obtuse, sessile and scarcely 
attenuate at base, sparingly denticulate; flowers in a short simple spike; - 
calyx-tube 2-3 lines long, the tips very slightly free; petals 9-12 lines long, 
rose-color with a darker spot near the apex; stigmas very short, purple; 
capsule 5-8 lines long, 2 lines broad and attenuate to the apex, hairy, the - 
sides tricostate, at least alternately. Willamette valley to California. 
G. decumbens Spach. Monog. Onogr. 68. Stems slender, erect or 
ascending, 3 inches to 3 feet high; leaves linear to oblong, 6-12 lines long; 
calyx-tube 2 lines long; petals 3-8 lines long, purple to rose-color; capsule 
shortly pubescent, 4-6 lines long. . Columbia River to California. 
G. Arnottii Walp. Rep. ii, 88. G. lepida var. Arnottii Watson. Nearly 
glabrous or subcanescently puberulent; leaves linear to lanceolate, 12-18 
lines long, acute, entire or sparingly denticulate; petals 4-8 lines long; 
capsules glabrous or nearly so. Southern Oregon to California. 
G. albesceus Lindl. Bot. Reg. 27. Simple or branching from the 
base, erect, 1-2 feet high, canescently puberalent, leaves linear to oblong- 
lanceolate an inch long, acutish, sparingly denticulate; flowers small in 
numerous short lateral spikelets, mostiy crowded into a compact spike; 
calyx-tube 2 lines long; petals. 3-5 lines long, purplish-blue; stigmas 
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