EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. 185 



GEJ. albicaulis, Nutt. With erect and white, often shreddy stems, 

 which are glabrous or nearly so, linear or oblong-lanceolate, entire or 

 repand-denticulate, or even sinuate-pinnatifid leaves, linear and sessile, 

 curved or twisted pods ; grows from W. Minn, to N. Mex. , and is cult. 2Z 



(E. rdsea, Ait. MEXICAN PRIMROSE. Minutely downy, with slender 

 spreading stems 6'-24' high, ovate or lance-oblong leaves, the lower 

 sometimes rather pinnatifid, and red-purple diurnal flowers, 1' across in 

 leafy racemes ; pods club-shaped. Mex. (2) 



* * * YELLOW-FLOWERED, DIURNAL PRIMROSES, sometimes called SUN- 

 DROPS, the blossoms opening in bright sunshine ; petals mostly obcordate ; 

 stems leafy ; leaves obscurely toothed or entire. Wild species of the 

 country, all but the last occasionally cultivated. % 



<- Pod short-oblong or obovate, broadly ^-wing-angled. 



CB. glafcca, Michx. Wild from Va. and Ky., near and in the moun- 

 tains S. ; l-2 high, smooth, pale and glaucous, leafy to the top ; leaves 

 ovate or lance-ovate ; corolla 2' or more in diameter. 



t- - Pod club-shaped, somewhat ^-wing-angled above, with 4 intervening 

 ribs. 



CE. frutic6sa, Linn. Wild in open places ; not shrubby, as the name 

 would imply ; hairy or nearly smooth, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, 

 somewhat corymbed flowers H'-2' in diameter, and short-stalked or 

 nearly sessile, more or less pubescent pods. 



Var. linearis, Wats. Wild from Conn. S., near the coast; linear or 

 lance-linear leaves, and pods tapering into a slender stalk. A spreading 

 form is cultivated. 



CB. piimila, Linn. In fields, etc. ; nearly smooth, 5-12' high, with 

 mostly simple, erect or ascending stein ; oblanceolate entire leaves, and 

 scattered flowers, the corolla less than 1 ' across, and smooth pods short- 

 stalked or sessile. 



8. GODETIA. (Named for Charles Godet, botanist and entomologist 

 at Neufchatel.) Western American annuals, in gardens. The species 

 are often referred to (Enothera. 



* Capsule ovate or oblong ; the seeds in 2 rows. 



G. purpurea, Wats. Very leafy to the top, rather stout, 10'-20 high, 

 at length with many short branches ; leaves pale, lance-oblong, entire, 

 and sessile ; corolla l'-H' across, purple, with a dark eye ; short and 

 broad lobes of stigma dark-colored ; pods short and thick, rather conical, 

 hairy. 



G. grandiflbra, Lindl. (or G. WnfTNETi). Stout and nearly simple, 

 with lanceolate leaves acute at both ends and borne on a short petiole, 

 entire or obscurely denticulate ; flowers 2' or more across, light-purple, 

 and usually with a purple spot in the center of each petal ; stigma lobes 

 linear ; capsule puberulent. 



* * Capsule linear ; the seeds in a single row. 



G. amcena, Lilja. (G. LINDLEYI and G. RCBICUNDA). Rather slender, 

 l-2 high ; leaves linear or lanceolate, entire or very nearly so, with 

 short petioles ; petals white or rose-colored, f'-lj' long, sometimes hairr 

 stigma lobes linear. 



9. LOFEZIA. (Named for T. Lopez, an early Spanish naturalist.) 



L. racemdsa, Cav. Cult, sparingly, from Mexico ; a slender, branch- 

 ing, nearly smooth plant, with alternate, ovate or lance-oblong leaves on 



