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CENOTHERA VIMINEA. Larce Pourpie-riow- 
ERED Twiccy Evenine Primrose. 
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Class and Order. 
Ocranbria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord. — Owacnantz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-fidus, tubulosus, Pet. 4, calyci inserta: Capsula 
_ 4-locularis, 4-valvis, infera. Semina comosa. 
— Specific Character and Synonym. 
CEnotHERA* viminea ; caule erecto ramoso virgato glabro, 
foliis lanceolatis glaucis integerrimis, capsulis cylin- 
draceo-attenuatis sulcatis pubescentibus. 
(EnorHers viminea. Douglas MSS. 
Descr. Stem annual, erect, glabrous, pale, almost white 
and polished, three to four feet high, branched, with many 
long, slender, twiggy branches. Leaves three to four inches 
long, alternate, hous petioled, upper ones sessile, quite 
entire, glaucous. Flowers sessile in the axils of the supe- 
rior leaves. Segments of the calyx acuminate, something 
more than half the length of the corolla. Petals large, of 
a fine and bright lilac colour, roundish-cuneate, waved, 
spreading, minutely crenulate at the extremity. —— 
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* Oivos, wine, and Onpx, searching or catching, according to Smrru, (Ong, 
a wild beast, according to Tué1s) “from the circumstance of the root having 
caught the perfume of wine.” To what particular plant, however, the antients 
applied that name is uncertain : not, we may be sure, to any of the species now 
arranged in the Genus, which are wholly confined to America, with the excep- 
tion of one or two, said to be found at the Cape of Good Hope, 
