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OENOTHERA* anisdloba. 

 White Upright Evening Primrose. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Onagrari^e Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 56.) 



* Tribus Onagrce De Cand. 

 CENOTHERA.— Supra, vol. 2.fol. 147. 



CE. anisoloba ; caule stricto leviter pubescente, floribus solitariis axillaribus 

 foliis insequaliter inciso-pinnatifidis brevioribus, calycis tubo petalis ve- 

 nosis rotundatis subtripld longiore, stigmate 4-partito. 

 CE. anisoloba. Sweet's flower-garden, 105. 



Caulis erectus, herbaceus, subsimplex, pallidus, pube levissimd vestitus, 

 l^-2-pedalis. Folia minutissim? pubescentia, radicalia spatulata, dentata, 

 caulina sensim magis divisa, superiora incequaliter inciso-pinnatiflda, floribus 

 longiora, laciniis acuminatis, incisis, dentatis, baseos minoribus. Flores albi, 

 speciosi, deflorati roseo-purpurei. Calycis tubus teres, albidus, levissime 

 pubescens, 6 uncias longus, basi paululum incrassatus. Petala subrotunda, 

 venis valde conspicuis, 2 uticias longa. Stigmatis lobi lineares, cruciati. 

 Ovarium breve, pedunculatum, angulis 4 acute gibbosis. 



Although this species is a native of the island of Chiloe, 

 some degrees to the southward of Valparaiso, yet it proves 

 more tender than (Enothera acaulis, from the last-mentioned 

 place ; so little does latitude often indicate the power of a 

 plant to resist frost. 



In our Gardens it grows 1^ or 2 feet high, forming a 

 neat, bright-green, very erect, herbaceous bush, which 

 puts forth from its summit beautiful white blossoms, of an 

 unusually large size, expanding at the close of day, and 

 filling the evening air with their mild fragrance. 



If great care be taken to protect this plant by covering 



* See fob 1220. 



