488 ONAGRACE^. Epilobium. 



with rigid teeth ; the lowermost opposite ; flowers axillary, at length pedicel- 

 late ; lobes of the calyx lanceolate, acute, rather shorter than the obcordate 

 petals ; style filiform ; stigma with 4 spreading lobes ; capsules linear. 

 — Piirsh .' Ji.l' p- 259 ; DC. ! 2^rodr. 3. ]). 44 ; Chaju. Sf Schlecht. ! in Lin- 

 ntea, 2. p. 553 ; Bongard ! veg. Sitcha, I. c, p. 135. 



N. W. Coast, Pallas ! Sitcha, Bmgard ! Unalaschka, Chamisso ! Ore- 

 gon, Mr. Tolmic ! — IX Stem 1-2 feet high. Leaves 2-3 inches long. 

 Flowers as large as in E. latifolium. Anthers oblong. Capsule a little 

 pubescent. 



§ 3. Flowers small {white) : limb of the calyx campanulale at the base: j)e- 

 tals slightly spreading, obcordate : stamens erect, included : style filiform, 

 much exserted, erect : stigma thick, ivith 4 spreading oblong lobes : capsule 

 slwrt, clavate-oblong : coma very long : leaves opi^osite. — Cordtlopho- 

 RUM, Nutt. mss. 



5. E. suffruticosum (Nutt. ! mss.) : " stems numerous, decumbent, much 

 branched ; leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, enthe, rather obtuse, somewhat 

 canescent; flowers axillary ; calyx deeply cleft ; the segments rather shorter 

 than the (white) petals ; capsules clavate, narrowed at each end, on very 

 short pedicels. 



" Gravelly banks of streams, east of Wallawallah. — A very remarkable 

 species, spreading out in tufts on the ground ; the young leaves hoary, nearly 

 an inch long, and about 3 lines wide. Flowers near the ends of the branches. 

 Style much exserted, erect [a little declined in the dried specimens] . Cap- 

 sule canescent, less than an inch in length, thickened in the middle." Nuttall. 

 — The flowers of this curious species are scarcely larger than those of E. pa- 

 lustre ; the base of the calyx campanulate ; the ovary ovoid-clavate, and 

 about the length of the style ; but the mature fruit resembles that of a Go- 

 detia, is attenuate towards the apex, slightly incurved, rather obtuse at the 

 base, and borne on a short filiform pedicel. 



§ 4. Flowers mostly small {reddish or white) : limb of the calyx campanulate 

 or infundibuUform : petals and stamens erect: style erect, included: stig- 

 ma clavate {the lobes connate or at length rarely expanding) : ovules in a 

 single roio: lower leaves commonly opposite, the upper- often alternate. 

 — Epilobium proper. (Lysimachion, Tausch.) 



6. E. alpinum (Linn.) : stem creeping at the base, usually with 2 pubes- 

 cent lines ; leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, sessile, or slightly pe- 

 tioled, obscurely denticulate or nearly entire, glabrous ; stigina undivided ; 

 capsules mostly pedicelled. — Linn.! sp)ec. 1. p. 348; Willd. ! spec. 2. 

 p. 318. 



a. small ; leaves mostly sessile, nearly entire; flowers at first sessile. — E. 

 alpinum, Fl. Dan. t. 332 ; Engl. hot. t. 2001 ; Pursh, fi. 1. p. 3G0 ; 

 DC! prodr. 3. p. 41 ; Lchm.. ! in Hook. ! jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 205. 



/?. stem larger, nodding at the summit ; leaves oblong, denticulate. Lchm. ! 

 I. c. E. alpinum var. nutans, Horncm. in fl. Dan. t. 1387, ex Lehm. 

 E. Hornemanni, Rcichenb. ic. ])l. rar. t. 180 ; DC. I. c, ex Lehm. 



y. stem taller (G-12 inches) ; leaves slightly petioled, denticulate, some- 

 what ovate, the uppermost acuminate ; flowers larger. — E. alpinum /?. ma- 

 jus, Wahl. fl. Suec. 1. jy. 234. E. alpinum, Bigel. ! fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 147. 



