OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. CEnothera. 



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E^ Leaves opposite, sitting, smooth, egg-spear-shaped, al- alpi'num, 

 ~ most entire: capsules sitting : stem with about 3 



flowers, trailing at the base. 



Dicks, h. s.-Ft. dan. 2>22+-Lightf. 10. 1. at p. 242. 



Stem trailing, hardly a span high. Linn. Afterwards upright, 

 bearing 1 or 2 flowers at the top. Leaves quite smooth. Pods 

 quite smooth, 4 or 5 times longer than the leaves. Lightf. 

 Leaves sometimes slightly toothed. Mr. Woodward. 



Alpine Wdlonuherb. Alpine rivulets. Cheviot Hills, Nor- 

 thumberland ; near Settle, Yorkshire ; Ben Buy, Ben Lomond, 

 and near Little Loch Broom* Ross-shire. Mountains in Breadal- 



bane and Corry Yaal, in Glenco. [M 

 barrow Well. Curt.] 



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CENO'THERA. Bloss. 4 petals. Col. with 4 divi- 

 sions. Caps, cylindrical, beneath. Seeds na- 

 ked. 



O. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, flat; stem covered with bien'ms. 



sharp points and soft hairs, 



Fl. dan. U6^Kniph. 67. 



This plant has been difcovered in such various and little fre- 

 quented parts of the kingdom, that we can no longer hesitate to , 

 introduce it as British. Mr. Norris says, it has established it- 

 self, to his knowledge, during five years, if not longer, in a ne- 

 glected concavity whence a coarse sand-stone has been formerly ex- 

 tracted, in Bowood Park, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdown, 

 near Devizes. The seeds are regularly ripened every year, and 

 produce abundantly : the plants in general do not flower before 

 the second season, after which the root dies, being biennial. 

 They seem perfectly naturalized and increase in number yearly, 

 Mr. Norris lately saw more than twenty distinct ones in flower, 

 surrounded by a multitude of younger, which will not blossom 

 till the succeeding season. The spot is not near any house nor 

 vestiges of such. About Bath, and some other places, it is said 

 to be commonly found on dunghills, &c. seeming to be in paral- 

 lel circumstances with the Datura Stramonium. It attains the 

 height of 5 or 6 feet. The main stem and larger branches are 

 every where beset with minute asperities, terminating in fine 

 transparent hairs, feeling not unlike a rough file. Leaves ra- 

 ther waved than flat* 



ood Park, Mr* Norris. Ballast-hills, near Sunder- 



rham. Mr. Robson. In Worcestershire. Rev. Mr. 



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