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GENOTHERA*. decumbens 
Decumbent Purple CEnothera. 
iaa, 
OCTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRARIE. 
ENOTHERA.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 147. 
o POE ii gg gi 
(E. decumbens; caule ascendente piloso, foliis ovato - lanceolatis glaucis 
pubescentibus, petalis calyce pauló longioribus, capsulis teretibus sub- 
quadratis tomentosis, stigmatis lobis crassis reflexis. 
CE. decumbens. Douglas in bot. mag. fol. 2889. 
Caulis annuus, ascendens, pilosus, pallidus, pedalis v. sesquipedalis, 
ramosus. Folia ovato-lanceolata, pubescentia, glauca, integerrima. Flores 
sepiùs foliis breviores; petala purpurea, calyce paulo longiora; stigma 
crassum, purpureum, quasi capitatum, ob lobos reflexos. Capsula teres, sub- 
quadrata, non sulcata, tomentosa. 
Like the last, this pretty species has been procured for 
our Gardens by the exertion of Mr. Douglas, who found it 
in dry soils, among mountain valleys, in Northern California. 
It flowered for the first time in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society in the autumn of 1827: our drawing was 
made there in September 1828. 
A hardy annual, growing readily in common garden 
soil, and flowering during August and September. If cul- 
tivated in a patch in a large garden pot, and in poor soil, 
so that their over-luxuriance is checked, both this and all 
its purple-flowered brethren, such as quadrivulnera, pur- 
purea, Romanzovii, viminea, Lindleyana, Kc. produce their 
blossoms in much greater perfection than in the open 
border; but they cease flowering sooner. 
Stem annual, ascending, hairy, pale, about a foot or a 
* See fol, 1142, 
