EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. Onagraceae. 



in the flowers and leaves are quite startling. This is com* 

 mon in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Coast 

 Ranges and is often rather shabby looking, but in favor- 

 able situations is very handsome. 



Pretty and delicate and not nearly so 



conspicuous as the last, with a slender, 



rhomboldea smooth, branching stem, one to three feet 



Purple tall, with smooth leaves, mostly alternate, 



Spring, summer nodding buds, and a few pretty flowers, 



68 *' NCV " ab Ut three - c l uarters of an inch across. 

 The sepals are reddish-yellow; the petals 

 pinkish-purple, often dotted with purple at base, with a 

 short, broad, toothed claw; the stigma magenta; the fila- 

 ments purple, with a whitish, hairy scale at the base of 

 each; the anthers grayish, all perfect; the capsule four 

 angled, slightly curved, about an inch long. This grows* 

 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges and 

 is widely distributed in Yosemite, but nowhere very 

 abundant. 



Odd and exceedingly charming flowers, 

 Pink Fairies 



Cl&rkia pulchttla Wlth ver y slender, very slightly downy, 

 Pink purplish, branching stems, from six inches 



Summer to a foot tall, and smooth leaves. The 



Northwest flowers are fantastic in form, the airiest 



and most fairy-like blossoms that can well be imagined, 

 over two inches across, their delicate petals with long, 

 toothed claws and three lobes, bright rose-pink, shading 

 to a deeper tint at the base, the calyx slightly downy and 

 reddish. Four of the stamens are perfect and four are 

 rudimentary; the anthers are reddish; the pistil white; the 

 capsule an inch long, eight-angled, with a spreading stalk. 

 It is a pretty sight to see these gay flowers dancing in the 

 wind on open mountain slopes. C. concinna (Euchan- 

 dium), of the Coast Ranges, is similar, equally beautiful 

 and even more brilliant in coloring; the flowers sometimes 

 in such quantities as to make patches of bright pink color, 

 very effective when growing among yellow Sedums, 

 Scarlet Larkspurs, and scarlet Indian Pinks, in shady 

 mountain canyons. 



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