1840 



CENOTHERA seiotina. 

 Late-fiowering Evening Primrose. 



Nat. Old. Onagrace^. 



(E NO THERA.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 147. 



CE. serotina, caule ascendente, internodiis subsequalibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis 

 subdentatis pubescentibus, capsulis pedicellatis obovatis tetrapteris pube- 

 scentibus. 



CE. serotina. Sweet Fl. G. I. ser. 2. 184. 



According to Sweet this plant was sent under the present 

 name by Mr. Nuttall to the Liverpool Garden ; I do not, 

 however, find it noticed by the latter Botanist, nor is it men- 

 tioned, as far as I can discover, by any writer on the plants 

 of North America. It is probably considered, and perhaps 

 with reason, a mere variety of CE.fruticosa, from which it 

 differs more in habit than in any very precise characters. 

 Its leaves are narrower and longer, its stem much less erect, 

 and the leaves and inflorescence are not separated from each 

 other by a considerable interval, as is usually the case in 

 (E. fruticosa. The period of flowering of (E. serotina is 

 later, extending into November. 



In size the flowers are variable. Usually they are as is 

 here represented, seldom so large as in the figure in Sweet's 

 Flower Garden. 



It is a hardy perennial, growing best in a moist, but well 

 drained American border ; but not refusing cultivation even in 

 common garden soil. The late period to which its flowering- 

 is protracted renders it an acceptable species. 



NOTE UPON FOL. 1829. 



Mr. Lambert has satisfied me that the seeds from which his plants 

 of CE. concinna were raised, were really obtained from Chilian 

 specimens, collected by Mr. Cuming. The species must, however, be 



