EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 



their common name, for in their native fields they look like flecks 

 of sunshine. 



(Enothera fruHcosa covers a very extensive range; is tolerant 

 of many soils and different locations but needs sunlight. The 

 variety Youngii, the form most commonly cultivated, is a little 

 better than the type. 



GODETIA 



CEnothira amcena. 



This is the common well-known Godetia much given to dwarf forms. 

 It ranges the Pacific coast from Vancouver southward. 



Stem. — Erect, slender, one to two feet high. 

 Leaves. — Narrow, lanceolate or oblong, nearly entire. / 



Flowers. — ^White, rose, or lilac, scattered on leafy branches; an inch 

 and a half across, of brilliant satin lustre. ' 



Calyx-lube. — Short, four-lobed. 

 Petals. — Four. 

 Stamens. — Eight. 

 Capsules. — Four-sided, not winged. 



The Godetias are very showy garden annuals, native to the 

 Pacific coast. 



FUCHSIA 



Fuchsia macrostSmma. 



Named in honor of Fuchs, an early German botanist. 



This is believed to be the basic primitive of our garden race of Fuchsia 

 hybrids. 



Stem. — Erect, woody, branching. 



Leaves. — Opposite, ovate, dentate, thick, shining. 



Flowers. — Hanging on slender peduncles in terminal racemes and in 

 the axils of the leaves, red, pink, purple, and white in combination. 



Calyx. — Highly colored, tubular or funnel-shaped; border spht into 

 four spreading lobes. 



Petals. — Four, usually of color different from that of calyx, obovate 

 retuse, convolute around the base of the projecting filaments and style.' 

 Stamens. — Eight; filaments long, slender. 



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