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 



Clarkia consoicuous as the last, with a slender 



Ctarkia " 



rhomboldea smooth, branching stem, one to three feet 



Purple tall, with smooth leaves, mostly alternate, 



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

 St ' NeV " about three-quarters 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 oi 

 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 anc 

 is widely distributed in Yosemite, but nowhere verj 

 abundant. 



Odd and exceedingly charming flowers 

 Pink Fames 



Clarkia pulchttla Wlth ver y slender, very slightly downy 

 Pink purplish, branching stems, from six inche; 



Summer to a foot tall, and smooth leaves. 



Northwest flowers are fantastic in form, the airies 



and most fairy-like blossoms that can well be imagine 

 over two inches across, their delicate petals with Ion 

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

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

 reddish. Four of the stamens are perfect and four 

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

 capsule an inch long, eight-angled, with a spreading sta 

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

 wind on open mountain slopes. C. concinna (Eucha 

 dium}, of the Coast Ranges, is similar, equally beautift 

 and even more brilliant in coloring; the flowers sometime 

 in such quantities as to make patches of bright pink cole 

 very effective when growing among yellow Sedum 

 Scarlet Larkspurs, and scarlet Indian Pinks, in sha( 

 mountain canyons. 



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