Beautiful Clarkia
Clarkia Concinna (F. and M.), Greene. Evening-Primrose Family
Stems.—Several inches to two feet high. Leaves.—One or two inches long. Flowers.—Axillary; sessile; parts in fours. Calyx.—Red-pink; tube an inch or more long. Petals.—Rose-pink; six lines to over an inch long. Ovary.—Four-celled. Syn.—Eucharidium concinnum, Fisch. and Mey. Hab.—The Coast Ranges, from Santa Barbara to Mendocino County.
In June these charming blossoms may be found in the company of the maidenhair fern fringing the banks of shady roads, or standing in glowing masses under the buckeye-trees. In them nature has ventured upon one of those rather daring color combinations of which we would have hardly dreamed, and the result is delightful. The petals are bright rose-pink, while the sepals are of a red pink.