OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNTIA, 245 
560. (HNOTHERA. L. (Tree-primrose.) 
Calix tubulous; 4-cleft, segments deflected, 
deciduous, Petals 4, inserted upon the calix. 
Stigma 4-cleft. Capsule 4-celled, 4-valved, in- 
ferior. Seeds naked, affixed to a central 4-sided 
receptacle. 
Herbaceous, biennial, annual and perennial; leaves al- 
ternate; flowers solitary, axillary, at length elongated into 
a spike, generally yellow, rarely white or violaceous, ex- 
panding about sun-set. (Leaves in most of the species, 
when sufficiently diaphanous, linearly punctate.) 
§ 1. Fruit elongated, sessile. 
Species. 1. &. biennis. (Tree-Primrose.) v. v. On the 
hanks of the Missouri up to Fort Mandan; the flowers are, 
however, smaller than usual, and the leaves somewhat 
glaucous. 2. mwricata. 3. parviflora. 4. grandiflora. 5. si- 
uata, 8. minima, Px. A mere variety of this species, and 
hot uncommon in New-Jersey. — 
6. * kumifusa. Stem prostrate, branching, villous; leaves 
Hnear-lanceolate, subdentate or entire, silky villous as well 
as the calix; flowers axillary; tube of the calix alittle longer 
than the germ; petals obcordate about the length of the 
anthers; capsule prismatic. Has. Near Cumberland isl- 
and, Florida, on the sea-coast.—Dr. Baldwyn. Resembles 
. sinvata somewhat in general habit; but is soft and 
silky, not hairy as that species; the flowers also seem to 
have been white; the leaves are an inch long and scarcely 
two lines wide, irregularly and remotely toothed, lower 
leaves apparently always entire; flowers small, __ 
: * gibicaulis. Bote ae conpin. sects white and 
ished, upper part branching; leaves linear-sul 
C. rarely subserulte me side a little villous; flowers 
asxil middle-sized, white; c prismatic; 
Satie ese albicaulis. Fras. Catal. 1813. Pursh’ ;% 
nonym wrong, 2. p. 734. See the Herbarium of A. 
Lambert, esq. Han. From the river Platte to the North- 
ern Andes. Flowering in July and August. Stem about 
3 feet high, calix somewhat lous; capsule about an inch 
= pinnatifida. Minutely pubescent; stem low and de- - 
