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CLARKIA gauroides.
Guara-like Clarkia.
Linnean Class and Order. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Natural Order. ONAGRARI®. Decand. prodr. 3. p. 35.
CLARKIA. Suprà fol. 157.
C. gauroides, foliis ovatis acutis petiolatis, petalorum lammis rhombeis bast
biauriculatis, filamentis omnibus fertilibus glabris, fauce calycis squamis 8
puberulis clausa, ovariis pubescentibus.
Clarkia gauroides. Dougl. Mss.
Root fibrous, annual. Stem erect, filiform, much branched,
a foot high, pale green, stained with purple, and clothed with
short, recurved pubescence. Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate,
acute, entire, an inch long, plain and even, dark green and
glabrous above, paler and pubescent beneath, slightly attenuated
at the base, the younger ones silky. Petioles semicylindrical,
slender, half an inch long. Flowers^ scattered in
terminal racemes. Peduncles filiform, 3 or 5 inches h>ng-
Pedicels very short. Bractes lanceolate, acute, leafy. Calyx
minutely pubescent; tube adherent, the faux closed by 8,
scale-like, hairy, white appendages, placed opposite the
stamens ; sepals lanceolate, mucronate, membranous, green,
usually connected in pairs. Petals 4, purple, scarcely
longer than the sepals; claws very short; lamina rhomboidal,
obtuse, concave, crenulately repand, furnished just above
the claw, with two, short, auriculate lobes. Stamens 8, all
fe rtile ; the 4 opposite the petals with the anthers, but half
the size of the others. Filaments short, compressed, glabrous,
purple. Antkers double the length of the filaments, mucronulate,
purple, of two parallel connate cells, opening laterally
by a longitudinal suture. Pollen white, composed of meshes
of large granules. Ovarium adherent, 4-celled. /»we hli-
form, pale purple, rather shorter than the stamens. Stigma
of a deeper colour, 4-lobed, the lobes short, thick, obtuse.