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EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. Onagraceae. 
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A handsome plant, with nearly smooth, 
Godétia viminea tender, reddish stems, a few inches to two 
Purplish-pink 
Siciaidt ce 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. Dudleyana 
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. 
; A conspicuous plant, on account of the 
Clarkia : 
Clarkia élegans Oddly contrasting colors of the flowers, 
Pink and very variable both in size and smooth- 
Spring, summer ness. It grows from six inches to six feet 
California high; the stems more or less branching; 
the leaves sometimes toothed and often reddish; the buds 
and calyxes often woolly. The flowers are very gay; the 
sepals being dark red or purple, the petals, with long, 
slender claws, bright pink and the anthers scarlet! The 
stamens, four long and four short, have a hairy, reddish 
scale at the base of each filament, the anthers of the shorter 
stamens often white, and the capsule is usually curved, 
with no stalk, nearly an inch long, often hairy. When the 
foliage is red, as it often is, the various combinations of red 
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