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GODETIA albescens. 



Whitish Godetia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOOYNIA 



Nat. ord. Onagrace^e. 

 GODETIA. Supra vol 22 . fol 



G. albescens 



is ; caule annuo lignoso, ramis brevissimis congestis, foliis albido- 

 glaucis lanceolatis integerrimis glabris, floribus sessilibus densissim^ 

 inter folia superiora aggregates, calycis tubo infundibulari laciniis 

 sequali, petalis obcordatis calyce dupl6 longioribus, stigmatis lobis ovatis 



nibus subrotundis scabris. Botanical Register, 1841, misc. no, 131. 

 quibusdam mutatis. 



A new hardy annual, not very handsome, but forming an 

 agreeable variety, when grown among species of a more 

 spreading habit. Like all the rest of the genus, which seems 

 to retain the characters, by which it is known from (Enothera, 

 it is a native of America, having been obtained from the 

 Columbia river for the Horticultural Society, by the late 



Mr. Moreton Dyer. Its stiff close mode of growth brings it 

 near (Enothera densiflora, from which, however, it is very 

 different in other respects. 



The species belongs to that section in Gray and Torrey's 

 Flora of North America, which comprehends G. viminea, 

 and in some circumstances it approaches their G. Arnottii, 

 but that species is described with taper-pointed leaves, spotted 

 flowers, a style longer than the stamens, and glabrous capsules ; 

 the flowers are moreover said to be as large as in G. Lindleyi. 



Fig. 1 represents a seed vessel split into four valves, and 

 fig. % a seed. 



In cultivation this plant grows about a foot and half high, 



and requires the same treatment as other hardy annuals. It 



