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 
ay: conspicuous as the last, with a slender, 
eS smooth, branching stem, one to three feet 
Purple tall, with smooth leaves, mostly alternate, 
Spring, summer nodding buds, and a few pretty flowers, 
Northwest, Nev-s shout three-quarters of an inch across. 
Utah : 
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 of 
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 and 
is widely distributed in Yosemite, but nowhere very 
abundant. 
eaaectace Odd and exceedingly charming flowers, 
Clarkia pulchélla With very slender, very slightly downy, 
Pink purplish, branching stems, from six inches 
Summer to a foot tall, and smooth leaves. The 
Northwest 
flowers are fantastic in form, the airiest 
and most fairy-like blossoms that can well be imagined, 
over two inches across, their delicate petals with long, 
toothed claws and three lobes, bright rose-pink, shading 
to a deeper tint at the base, the calyx slightly downy and 
reddish. Four of the stamens are perfect and four are 
rudimentary; the anthers are reddish; the pistil white; the 
capsule an inch long, eight-angled, with a spreading stalk. 
It is a pretty sight to see these gay flowers dancing in the 
wind on open mountain slopes. C. concinna (£uchari- 
dium), of the Coast Ranges, is similar, equally beautiful 
and even more brilliant in coloring; the flowers sometimes 
in such quantities as to make patches of bright pink color, 
very effective when growing among yellow Sedums, 
Scarlet Larkspurs, and scarlet Indian Pinks, in shady © 
mountain canyons. 
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