OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. GEnothera. 211 



the petals. Anth. linear-oblong, peltate, incumbent. 

 Germ, inferior, oblong, furrowed. Style thread-shaped, 

 the length of the stamens. Stigma in 4- thick, obtuse, 

 spreading segments. Caps, oblong, bluntly quadran- 

 gular, widi 4 furrows, 4< cells, and 4 valves. Seeds nu- 

 merous, angular, beardless. Receipt, linear, quadrangular, 

 unconnected. 

 Herbs with simple, entire, toothed, or cut, leaves. Fl. soli- 

 tary, from the bosoms of the upper leaves, large and 

 handsome, short-lived, yellow, white, or purple. Most 

 of the species are natives of America, or of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



1. CE. biennis. Common Evening-primrose, 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, flat. Stem rough, somewhat hairy. 

 Stamens equal. Petals undivided. 



CE. biennis. Linn. Sp. PL 402. Willd. v. 2. 30G. Engl. Bot. v. 22. 



i. 1534. Comp. 59. Part. v. 3. 355. Ait. II. Kew.ed. 2. v. 2.341. 



Roth Germ.v. 1 . ] G8. v. 2. p. 1. 439. Fl. Dan. t. 44G. 

 (E. foliis ovato-lanceolatis planis. Linn. Virid. Cliff. 33. Milt. 



Ic. 126. t. 189./. 2. 

 CE. n. 994. Hall. Hist. v. 1 .425. 



Lysimachia lutea corniculuta. Bauh. Pin. 245. app. 5\6. 

 L. lutea corniculata non papposa, virginiana^ major. Moris, v. 2. 



27\.sect.3.t. W.f.l. 

 L. lutea siliquosa virginiana. Park. Parad. 264. t.263.f. 6. 

 Ilyosckimus virginianus. Alpin. Exot.325. ^ 324. 



On sandy banks, on the west coast of England. 



iietwcen the first and second ranges of sand-banks, on tlic coast 

 of Lancashire, a few miles north of Liverpool, in the greatest 

 abundance. Dr. JJustock and Mr. John Shepherd. It covers se- 

 veral acres of ground near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Mr. D. Turner. 

 On the banks of the Arrow, ^Varwickshi^c. Mr. Purton. 



Biennial, Jv.lij — Scptentbcr. 



Rout tapering. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, often branched, leafy, an- 

 gular, rough with minute tubercles, and more or less hairy. 

 Leaves alternate, ovate, or lanceolate, acute, toothed, downy, 

 gra.ss-green j the lowermost stalked, wavy, much the largest. 

 Flowers numerous, bright yellow, forming terminal leafy spikes. 

 They expand in an evening, and are delicately fragrant. C'apsuh' 

 short, rough. 



'Hiis Q'lnoihcra is common in gardens, and often escapes from 

 thence into rich waste ground. Hut on the dreary sands of our 

 I^ancashire coast it is truly wild ; being planted there by the 

 hand of Nature, tijough perhaps transported, by natural means, 

 tVoiu liu' other Mile of the Atlantic. 



