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‘Clafs and Order. 
OcTANDRIA MoNoOGYNIA, | 
Generic Charaéder. 
Cal. 4-fidus. Petala 4. Capf. oblonga, infera. Sem. pappofa. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
_ EPILOBIUM angufliffimum, foliis fparfis linearibus obfolete 
- denticulatis aveniis, petalis zqualibus integer- 
rimis. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2.p. 5. ~ 
EPILOBIUM anguftifolium, var. Linn. Sp. Pl. 
EPILOBIUM flore difformi, foliis linearibus. Hall. Hifl. 
| Helv. p. 427, te 1001, 
Though the Epslodium here figured has not been many 
years introduced into this country, it is a plant which has 
Jong been well known, and defcribed. | 
Linnazus makes it a variety only of the Epilobium angu/li- 
Jolium; Harver, a diftin@ fpecies, and in our opinion, mot 
juftly. 
Thofe who have cultivated the Epilobium anguftifolium have — 
caule to know that it increafes prodigioufly by its creeping 
roots. The prefent plant, fo far as we have been able to de-— 
termine from cultivating it feveral years in our Garden, 
Lambeth-Marfh, has not fhewn the leaft difpofition to in-' 
creafe in the fame way, nor have any feedlings arifen from_ 
the feeds which it has fpontaneoufly fcattered: we have, in-_ 
deed, found ita plant. rather difficult to propagate, yet it is 
__ highly probable that at’a greater diftance from London, and 
- in amore favourable foil, its roots, though not of the creep-_ 
ing kind, may admit of a greater increafe, and its feeds be 
more prolific. : ‘ 
' Itis a native of the Alps of Switzerland, from whence it is 
frequently diflodged, and carried into the plains by the im= 
-petuofity of torrents. - — — 
It flowers with us in July and Auguft, and being a hardy per- | 
ennial, and perhaps the moft elegant fpecies of the genus, ap- 
_ pears to us highly deferving a place in the gardens of the curious. — 
