CLARKIA (Clarkia concinna [F. & M.] Greene). Flowers 

 rose-pink, petals nearly or quite an inch long with 3 terminal 

 lobes; stamens only 4. Calyx tubes very slender. Stems 

 annual from a few inches to 2 feet high. Blooming in summer 

 in the Coast Ranges of California, often under the shade of 

 trees, and very showy. The plant was originally described 

 as Eucharidium concinnum, the filiform calyx tube and the 4 

 stamens being thought to entitle it to generic distinction; 

 but most botanists assign it to Clarkia. 



The name Clarkia commemorates that gallant old Virginian, 

 Captain William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark com- 

 bination of 1804-6 the first expedition to cross the American 

 Continent. Lewis was a member of the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society of Philadelphia, and on the trip gathered plants 

 enthusiastically. Among these were specimens of a beauti- 

 ful flower collected in Idaho or Montana, upon which the 

 genus Clarkia was established. That was Clarkia pulcheUa, 

 Pursh., not found in California, but abundant in Oregon and 

 Washington and eastward to the Rockies. It, like C. con- 

 cinna, has 3-lobed petals, but besides 4 perfect stamens has 4 

 rudimentary ones. 



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