lf(y FLORA HISTORICA. 



EVENING, OR TREE PRIMROSE. (Enothcra 

 Biennis, 



Natural Order Calycanthemce. Onagrce, Juss. A 

 Genus of the Odandria Monogynia Class. 



You, Evening Primroses, when day has fled, 



Open your palHd flowers, by dews and moonlight fed. 



Baktox. 



This North American flower was first sent from 

 Yirginia to Paclua_, in the year 1619, but at what 

 exact period it reached England is uncertain, since 

 Parkinson is the earliest author who notices it ; but 

 it must have been some time previous to 16^29, as 

 in his " Garden of Pleasant Flowers," which was 

 published in tliat year, he speaks of it in a more 

 familiar style than he would have done had it been 

 of late introduction. This author calls it Tree 

 Primrose of Virginia. This plant bears its primrose- 

 coloured flowers on branches of three or four feet 

 in height ; and hence it was called Tree Primrose, 

 and Evening Primrose, or Evening Star, because 

 the flowers burst open and expand in the evening, 

 generally between six and seven o'clock, which is 

 thus noticed by Dr. Langhorne : — 



