280 ONAGRACEAE. 



short strict branches, 2 to 3 ft. high, soon leafless except above; leaves ob- 

 long to linear-lanceolate, acute, 1^ to 1% in. long; herbage puberulent; 

 flowers essentially like those of the large-flowered form of G. amoena, but 

 petals notched at apex or even deeply bilobed; ovary thick below middle, taper- 

 ing to base, and also to apex something like a rifle cartridge; capsule canes- 

 cent, thick, terete, rather short (6 to 8 lines long), on pedicels % to 2 in. 

 long. 



Pt. Isabel to Oakland, perhaps now extinct in Alameda Co. First collected 

 by Douglas but the exact locality unknown. 



G. parviflora Jepson. Diffusely branching from the base, the branches 

 numerous and wiry; calyx in bud 4-sided and tips free, the lobes in anthesis 

 commonly distinct; calyx-tube pinkish, long and slender (2y 2 to 5 lines long), 

 usually longer than the ovary and commonly swollen slightly at the summit of 

 ovary j petals cuneate-obovate, rose-red, 4 to 7% lines long; style nearly or 

 quite equaling the petals; stigmas purple, elliptic, somewhat united at base; 

 capsule teretish, rather strongly curved. — Monterey Co. June. 



G. viminea (Dougl.) Spach. Erect with showy flowers; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, primly reflexed; calyx-tube 2% to 5y 2 lines long; petals purplish or 

 crimson, with a large purple spot in center or at apex; stigmas purple, linear- 

 oblong; capsule 4-sided, with 2 ribs on each side, or those of the lateral faces 

 obscure or wanting. — Sierra Nevada foothills and north to Oregon. 



4. G. quadrivulnera (Dougl.) Spach. Erect, simple or with simple 

 branches from below the middle, % to 1% ft. high; herbage pubescent or 

 puberulent; lowest leaves obovate or oblong, 5 to 11 lines long, the . upper 

 narrowly or broadly linear, the uppermost lanceolate and somewhat condupli- 

 cate, % to 1% in. long; flowers remote; calyx-lobes usually distinct and re- 

 flexed (in the earliest flowers sometimes united and turned to one side) ; 

 petals lilac or pale crimson, usually with a spot at the top, 2% to 5 lines long; 

 ovary canescent to densely villous; stigmas purple, short-oblong; capsule 

 sessile, sharply 4-sided, the sides smooth or obscurely ribbed, often rather 

 strongly beaked, % to 1 in. long. 



Open hillsides, Coast Eanges and Sierra Nevada foothills, the most common 

 species. May-June. 



5. G. goddardii Jepson. Simple or sparingly branched, 1 to 2^ ft. high, 

 foliage and buds as in preceding but spikes not so lax; petals pink-crimson or 

 purple-crimson, with or without dark crimson spot at apex, 2% to 6 lines 

 long; calyx-lobes primly reflexed, in pairs or quite distinct; capsule sessile, 

 almost glabrous or canescently puberulent, terete, 8-ribbed, and with 8 dis- 

 tinct but small nerves which are median and at the sutural angles, 4 to 7 

 lines long. — (G. albescens var. micropetala Jepson, 1st ed. p. 334, in part.) 



Dry hills of the Coast Ranges: Redwood Creek (Humboldt Co.); Napa 

 Range; Fish Ranch (Contra Costa Co.). 



6. G. purpurea (Curtis) Don. Typically simple and usually stoutish, % 

 to 2 ft. high, the flowers capitately congested at the summit or disposed in 

 the upper axils of the leafy stem, the single flowers sometimes replaced by a 

 cluster of 2 to 4 and borne on very short branchlets; herbage minutely pubes- 

 centj Leaves <>\ .-dish-oblong or oblong, obtusish or merely acute, the upper 

 oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate, sessile or very 

 shortly petioled, ' ■_• to L% in. Long; buds commonly pilose, their calyx-tips but 

 slightly free; calyx-tube 2% to •"• \ •_■ lines long; petals broadly cuneate, trun- 



