1604 









(ENOTHERA* biennis ; var. grandiflora. 



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Large-Lowered biennial Evening Primrose. 





OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Onagrarii Juss. (Int 

 Botany, p. 56.) 



(ENOTHERA.— Supra, vol. 2.fol 



9/ 



(E. biennis; caule erecto muricato-pubescente tomentoso glabrove, foliis 

 planis lanceolatis v. obovato-lanceolatis dentatis basi angustatis, tubo 

 calycis ovario duplo longiore, capsulis cylindraceis glabriusculis costatis. 



*. caule glabriusculo, floribus mediocribus. 



<E. biennis. Linn. sp. pi. 492. De Cand. prodr. 3. 46. 



£. caule glabriusculo, floribus maximis, ovariis magis pubescentibus. 



(E. grandiflora. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. 2. De Cand. prodr. 3. 46. 



(E. suaveolens. Desf. tabl. ed. 1804. De Cand. I. c. 



y. caule aspero muricato-piloso, ssep6 villosissimo. 



<E. muricata. Linn. syst. veg. 296. De Cand. prodr. 1. 47. 



We have no doubt that all the synonyms above men- 

 tioned are really referable to varieties of the same species. 

 The very great similarity that exists between all of them 

 must be familiar to eveirv body who has ever cultivated 

 them ; and if we seek for positive characters by which 

 they may be known, we shall not be able to find such. The 

 only differences that can be pointed out consist in the size 

 of the flowers, and the nature of the hairiness of the stem: 

 the former character is in excess in the beautiful subject of 

 this Plate ; in (E. muricata it is diminished ; and in the 

 <E. biennis it is in its nearest approach to the wild form : it 

 we add to the varieties (E.parvijlora, as we probably should 

 the petals will in that case be reduced almost to a state of 

 abortion.^ So with the pubescence: (E. biennis is a little 



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