EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. Ona.gra.ceae. 



A handsome plant, with nearly smooth, 

 slender > reddish st ems, a few inches to two 

 Summer feet tall and smooth, pale-green, toothless, 



Northwest narrow leaves, mostly without leaf-stalks. 



The buds are erect and the flowers form a 

 long, loose cluster, with bright purplish-pink petals, half 

 an inch to over an inch long, with a large, magenta blotch 

 near the center, or at the tip, and yellowish at base; the 

 stamens and pistil all purple; the calyx-lobes not caught 

 together, but turned primly back. This forms fine patches 

 of bright color in rather meadowy places in Yosemite and 

 elsewhere in the Sierra Nevada foothills. G. Dudleydna 

 is pretty and slender, with drooping buds and light lilac- 

 pink flowers, the petals paler at base, with darker dots, 

 the calyx-lobes caught together and turned to one side, and 

 also makes beautiful patches of color on sunny slopes 

 around Yosemite. 



There are several kinds of Clarkia, resembling Godetia, 

 but the petals have claws. The stems are brittle; the 

 leaves mostly alternate, with short, slender leaf-stalks; the 

 buds nodding; the flowers in terminal clusters, with four 

 petals, never yellow, and four sepals, turned back; the 

 stamens eight, those opposite the petals often rudimentary; 

 the stigma four-lobed; the capsule long, leathery, erect 

 more or less four-angled, with many seeds. Named in 

 honor of Captain Clarke, of the Lewis and Clarke expedi 

 tion, the first to cross the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific 

 in 1806. 



rkia A conspicuous plant, on account of th 



Clbrkia ilegans oddly contrasting colors of the flowers, 

 Pink and very variable both in size and smooth- 



Spring, summer ne ss. It grows from six inches to six feet 

 high; the stems more or less branching; 

 the leaves sometimes toothed and often reddish; the bud 

 and calyxes often woolly. The flowers are very gay; th 

 sepals being dark red or purple, the petals, with long 

 slender claws, bright pink and the anthers scarlet! Th 

 stamens, four long and four short, have a hairy, reddis 

 scale at the base of each filament, the anthers of the shorte 

 stamens often white, and the capsule is usually curvec 

 with no stalk, nearly an inch long, often hairy. When th 

 foliage is red, as it often is, the various combinations of rec 

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