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% EVENING PRIMROSE. 



(Ornothera.') 



The Evening or Tree Primrose' is a native of 

 Virginia, and nov^r common in most of our English 

 gardens. 



This deUcately-coIourcd flower is usually shut 

 during the day, as if to protect itself from the heat 

 of the sun, but expands towards the approach of 

 evening, whence it is called the Evening Primrose. 

 It flowers in June, and continues for a considerable 

 time in blossom. 



There are three different sorts of this plant ; but 

 the most common in our gardens is the broad-leaved 

 kind, with flat lance-shaped leaves, a hairy stalk and 

 a corolla of pale yellow. 



Class, OcTAifDRiA. Order, Monogtnia. 



