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(ENOTHERA* glauca 



Glaucous Oenothera. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Owagrari*; Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 56.) 



(ENOTHERA.— Supra, vol. I.fol. 147. 



CE. glauca ; caule erecto glabro, foliis lat& ovatis subdentatis glaucis, calycis 

 limbo tubo longiore, staminibus petalis brevioribus, fructibus tetraquetris 

 obovatis pedunculatis. 



CE. glauca. Mich.fi. bor. am. 1.224. Purshfi. amer. sept. 1.262. Bot. 

 mag. t. 1606. De Cand. prodr. 3. 50. 





One of the handsomest of those perennial (Enotheras, 

 with the habits of CE. fruticosa, with which our Gardens 

 now abound. It is a wild and legitimate species, inha- 

 biting the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, and on the 

 Peaks of Otter in Virginia, where it has been recognised 

 by all the North American Botanists since the days of the 



elder Michaux. 



Its deep rich green glaucous leaves, and very brilliant 

 yellow flowers, render it a valuable plant for the ornament 

 of the Flower-garden in the autumn, and till the arrival 

 of frost. 



It grows readily in any common garden soil, and may 

 be easily multiplied by division of the crown of its roots. 

 But to be preserved in a healthy state, it should not be 

 much mutilated for the purpose of multiplication ; a caution 

 that may be given not only with respect to this, but to a 

 great many other plants, which eagerness to increase either 



* See fol. 1142 











