Dc I miron 
1840 
CENOTHÉRA serótina. 
Late-flowering Evening Primrose. 
Nat. Ord. ONAGRACER, 
CE NOTHERA.—Suprà, vol, 2. fol. 147. 
CE. serotina, caule ascendente, internodiis subsequalibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis 
subdentatis pubescentibus, capsulis pedicellatis obovatis tetrapteris pube- 
scentibus. 
CE. serotina. ‘Sweet FI. G. 1. ser. 2. 184. 
According to Sweet this plant was sent under the present 
name by Mr. Nuttall to the Liverpool Garden; I do. not, 
however, find it noticed by the latter Botanist, nor is it men- 
tioned, as far as I can discover, by any writer on the plants 
of North America. It is probably considered, and perhaps 
with reason, a mere variety of 77 fruticosa, from which it 
differs more in habit than in any very precise characters. 
Its leaves are narrower and longer, its stem much less erect, 
and the leaves and inflorescence are not separated from each 
other by a considerable interval, as is usually the case in 
(E. fruticosa. The period. of flowering of Œ. serotina is 
later, extending into November. 
In size the flowers are variable. n WO they are as is 
here represented, seldom so large as in the figure in Sweet's 
Flower Garden. FA RA, 
It is a hardy perennial, growing best in a moist, but well 
drained American border ; butnot refusing cultivation even in 
common garden soil. “The late period to which its flowering 
is protracted renders it an acceptable species. 
NOTE UPON FOL. 1829. 
Mr. Lambert has satisfied me that the seeds from whieh his no 
of Œ. concinna were raised, were really obtained from Chilian 
specimens, collected by Mr. Cuming. The species must, however, be 
