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EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. Onagraceae. 
A queer little, stunted-looking, desert 
taal Dames plant, with almost no stem, but. with 
(Ocenothera) several branches, spreading flat on the 
White ground, stiff, smooth and purplish, with 
Spring crowded clusters of flowers, leaves, and 
Nevada 
pods, mostly at the ends, the whole 
forming flat clumps, from six to ten inches across. The 
leaves are smooth, slightly thickish, pale bluish-green and 
toothless; the buds are erect, and the flowers are over a 
quarter of an inch across, white, with yellow anthers anda 
green stigma. The pods are very much twisted and form 
odd little snarly bunches. 
There are only a few kinds of Chylisma; the flowers in 
terminal clusters; the calyx with a more or less funnel- 
form tube and four lobes; the petals four, not notched; 
the stamens eight, unequal; the stigma with a round top, 
the capsule long, membranous, with a stalk. 
A charming desert plant, from a few 
pe mi inches to a foot tall, with one or more, 
Chylisma Rage 
sca poidea var. pinkish, smooth, rather leafy stems, 
clavaeférmis springing from a pretty clump of smooth, 
(Oenothera) bluish-green leaves. The delicate flowers 
sea are about three-quarters of an inch across 
Seer and form a graceful cluster of several or 
many blossoms. The petals are white or 
yellow, often tinted with pink, with some specks of 
maroon at the base, and the sepals are pinkish-yellow; the 
stamens pale yellow; the stigma green; the pods erect. 
There are several kinds of Pachylophus; perennials, 
stemless or nearly so; leaves from the root; calyx downy, 
with a long tube; petals white or pink; stamens eight, with 
threadlike filaments, the alternate ones longer; style 
threadlike; stigma four-cleft; capsule woody. 
This has a few large flowers, three inches 
White Evening = Gr more across, with pure-white diaphan- 
Primrose 
pare s ous petals, fading to pink, and pink calyx- 
marginatus lobes. The buds are erect, hairy and pink, 
(Oenothera) and the flowersspring from a cluster of long, 
White 
downy root-leaves, narrowing to slender 
Summer : a : 
Ariz., Utah, Nev., leaf-stalks, with hairs on the veins and on 
Col. the toothed and jagged margins, and have 
almost no flower-stalk, but the hairy calyx- 
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