3. Epilobium.(Gesn,) Le Willow Herb, 
Herbs with alternate or opposite leaves, annuals or verennials, the 
latter propagating by underground stems which may produce at their tips 
either small rosettes of lesves or small winter buds (turions) which are 
compact clusters of small fleshy often reddish scales, Flowers perfect, 
small,borne in racemes in the upver axils. Sepals 4, united in the lower 
part to form a short tube. Petals 4, white, rose-color or violaceous, 
equal, commonly notched, Stamens 8, not doflexed, Style club-shaped or 
4ecleft at the avexe. Capsule linear, 4-angled, 4-chambered, opening by 4 
valves, veeds Comosee 
