Class VIII. Order I. 91 



ged and villous ; stamens shorter than the corolla. 

 Willd. 



The large, yellow flowers of this plant are frequently seen 

 overtopping the fences by which they grow, during most of the 

 summer. In . the country it is vulgarly known by the name ot 

 Scabish, a corruption probably of Scabious, from which howev- 

 er it is a very different plant. Stem from three to five feet 

 high, rough, hairy, and branching. Root leaves petioled ; stem 

 leaves sessile ; both pubescent, slightly toothed. Flowers sol- 

 itary, axillary. Germ sessile, four grooved, surmounted by the 

 long, tubular calyx, which divides into four rcflexed segments ; 

 petals large, roundish, sometimes emarginate. This plant, 

 originally American, is now naturalized, and very common 

 throughout Europe. Biennial. 



(ENOTHERA PUMILA. L. Ou'arf^tree primrose. 



Leaves lanceolate, very entire, obtuse ; cap- 

 sules slightly pedicelled, elliptic- obovate, angular. 

 Willd. 



Stem oblique at base, ascending, round, slender, about a 

 foot high. Leaves sessile, blunt. Flowers small, nearly sea- 

 sile, in a leafy spike. Petals inversely heart-shaped. Stamens 

 shorter than the corolla. Capsules inversely ovate, with cighl 

 angles. Pastures. Perennial. 



114. RHEXIA. 

 RHEXIA VIRGINICA. L. Virginian Bhe.ria. 



Stem with four winged angles ; leaves sessile, 

 oval-lanceolate, serrate-ciliate, calyx with glandular 

 hairs. 



Stem square with membranous angles. Leaves opposite, 

 oval, three nerved, with scattered hairs on both sides and on th(- 



