EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 



(Onagraceoi) 



Herbaceous plants, the flowers with 4 petals, and usually 8 

 stamens, the stigma 4-lobed or capitate, and the long calyx 

 tube adherent to the ovary. 



WILD FrCHSiA (Zauschneria calif ornica, Presl.). Flowers 

 1 to H inches long, scarlet both calyx and corolla, funnel-form 

 with exserted stamens and style, disposed in loose racemes 

 at the top of leafy, woody stems, 1 to 3 feet long, much 

 branched. Leaves grayish-green. Blooming in the late sum- 

 mer and throughout the autumn, in Central and Southern 

 California and eastward to Wyoming and New Mexico, in dry 

 or rocky soil, often painting considerable areas with vivid color. 

 It is common in the Yosemite region from the foothills to 

 about 6,500 feet altitude (according to Dr. Hall), but on 

 account of its late flowering, many visitors there never see 

 it. In Southern California at low altitudes it may be found in 

 bloom until the year's end. 



The botanical name of the Wild Fuchsia commemorates a 

 German botanist, Zauschner an honor that costs our Amer- 

 ican tongues dearly. 



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