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| #REDIRECT [[Clarkia amoena subsp. amoena]] | | #REDIRECT [[Clarkia amoena subsp. amoena]] |
| Godetia amoena, Lilia. Farewell-to-spbing. Fig. 1658. Slender, branching, 1-2 ft. high: lvs. linear to lanceolate, ½ -2 ½ in. long often with smaller ones fascicled in the axils: buds erect: calyx-lobes united and turned to one side on expansion of the fl.; corolla lilac-crimson or red-pink, satiny, 1-2 in. broad: caps, teretish, sessile or very shortly pedicelled. Cult, also in European gardens (since 1818). Exhibits considerable variability, especially in the size, and color-scheme of the fls. G. rubicunda, Lindl. (B.R. 1856), is the lilac-crimson form. G. vinosa, Lindl. (B.R. 1880), is a white-fld. state. G. schwaminii (On. 70:203), a double-fld. Pink form. (Enothera lindleyi, Douglas (B.M. 2832), has the crimson petals with a large central blotch of deeper color. (Enothera roseo-alba, Bernh. (Reichenbach, Icon. Bot. Exot., pis. 47 and 150), is a prolific-flowering form.
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