Annual, biennial or perennial herbs with alternate leaves, 
2. Oenothera Le iivening Primrose, 
lowers 
showy, in racemes or axillary in leafy spikes. Sepals 4, the tips often 
joined, 
vellov, 
Capsule 
without 
the calyx-tube manifestly vrolonged above the ovary. Petals 4, 
purplish in agee Stamens 8, Stigmas usually conspicuously 4-lobed, 
stout, tapering upwards, 4-chambered, opening by 4 valves. Seeds 
& comMmae 
YoY 
5 Menge grid ov as 
