(Godetia vimtnea, Spach.). Flowers 

 2 inches or so across, crimson or purplish, often with a darker 

 blotch at the bases (which are sometimes yellowish) of the 

 petals, the funnel-form calyx tube produced above the ovary, 

 the lobes more or less cohering and turned to one side; dis- 

 posed in leafy racemes, on stems from a few inches to 3 feet 

 high. Leaves alternate, narrow and entire, \ inch to 2 

 inches long. Blooming in spring and early summer on hill- 

 sides and in dry meadows of Central and Northern Califor- 

 nia northward through Oregon. 



There are more than a dozen species of Godetia (a name 

 by the way given in honor of the Swiss botanist Godet), rather 

 difficult of determination by the amateur, though the genus 

 is well enough marked. The common name Farewell-to-Spring 

 is appropriate to all, although in Southern California spring 

 is by no means departing when they begin to appear. From 

 Monterey to the Mexican border, on grassy hillsides, we may 

 find the lovely species Godetia Bottae, Spach., a slender plant, 

 2 to 3 feet high, with pinkish or lilac cups of bloom dotted in 

 purple, and a purplish or whitish centre. 



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