CEnoruera Fraseri. Pursh Fl. Am. Suppl. p.734. Nutt. 
Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 247. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1674. De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 51. 
(2.) linearifolia ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis.—An QE. linearis. 
Mich. et auct. ? 
(noruera fruticosa is a species, widely extended through- 
out North America, from Canada to Carolina ; but so vari- 
able in its foliage and hairiness, as to have suggested the 
idea of there beimg the several species above enumerated. 
The only kind, about which I feel at all doubtful, is the GE. 
linearis of Micuaux, whose leaves, besides being very nar- 
row, are more opaque, and exhibit the pellucid linear dots, 
above alluded to, very imperfectly. Indeed, they are not 
seen in the recent state of the true fruticosa.  Linnxus 
made it one of the characters of his original plant, that it 
should have the raceme pedunculated ; which is very often 
not the case with our species, as represented in an early 
plate of this Magazine, on which account I have reduced 
that toa variety. Sprencen and De Canpouze have raised 
the state of the plant here figured to the rank of a species, 
which, I think, it by no means merits. (8. Fraser? and 
Ck. incana I consider to be broad-leaved varieties of OE. 
Jruticosa; the former remarkable for its freedom from 
hairs, (it is found plentifully by Dr. Suorr at Kentucky, ) 
while the latter, of which I possess specimens from Wabash, 
gathered by Mr. Gotprg, is abundantly clothed with hairs. 
An exactly intermediate state is found at West Chester, by 
Mr. Townsenv. Our 6. ambigua was communicated by 
Mr. Miter of the Bristol Nursery to the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden ; where, slightly sheltered, it flowered in J uly. 
Although the stem is very downy, the peduncle is quite 
glabrous, and instead of leaves, as in var. y, there are only 
small, linear bracteas at the base of the short pedicels. 
It may be thus described :— 
Descr. oot perennial. Stem annual and herbaceous, as in all the 
varieties, erect, mostly simple, very downy. Leaves lanceolate, toothed, 
more or less distinctly; slightly downy. Peduncles terminal, quite 
glabrous, naked below, bearing a corymb of flowers, which afterwards 
elongates into a raceme. Flowers large for the size of the plant, hand- 
Some, rather pale yellow. Pedicels short, with a small, linear bractea 
at the base. Calyx acuminated. Petals four, narrow, obcordate, stri- 
ated, spreading. Fruit immature, oblongo-clavate, with four broad 
wings, and as many moderately elevated, obtuse angles. 
Fig. 1. Lower Leaf, nat, size. 2. Immature Capsule, magnified. 
