OCTANDRIA MONO«YNIA> 



4*4 



Mowers yellow. 

 Found in Carolina by 

 jflowers 



Bose 



lENOTHERA. Gen. pl. 637. 



Calpx 4.iidus, tubulo- 



Calyx 4 cleft, tubular. 



Corolla 4-petala. | Corolla 4 petalled. 



Cap 



tus. 



Vapsula infera, 4 locula- | svle inferior, 4 celled. 

 ris. 



i. Biennis. 



(E. caule villoso, scabro ; I Stem villous, scabrous j 



ovato-lanceolatis, I leaves ovate lanceolate, 



foil is 



planis, dentatis ; floribus 



spicatis ; staniinilius co- 



flat, dentate ; flowers spik- 

 ed ; stamens shorter than 



rolla brevioribus. Sp. pl. | the corolla. 



2. p. 3U6. 



Mich. 1. p. 224. Pursh, 1. p. 261. 

 CEnothera inoUissima ? Walt. p. 129. 



perennial ? Stem herbaceous, 3—8 feet high, terete. Lpmvbs al- 

 ternate, sessile, very pubescent. Flowers in a terminal spike, with 

 a leaf at the base of each, longer than the germ. Caly.v deciduous ; 

 the tube 2 inches long, thickened at the suniinit ; the segments half 

 as long as tlie tube, hairy 'on tlie outside, reflected. PetaU obovate, 

 emarginate, yellow, shorter than the segments of the calyx. Germ 

 inferior, cylindrical, furrowed. Style longer than the corolla, 

 wa 4 cleft. Capsule nearly cylindrical. Seeds numerous in each c^l« 

 angled, attached to a central receptacle. 



Stig- 



Grows in dry pastures, along fences, Sud 

 Flowers ^September — October. 



V 



S. MURICATA. 



IE. caule purpuras cente, 

 muricato; foliis lanceo- 

 latis, planis ; staminibus 

 longitudine corollse. Sp. 

 pl. s. p. 



307 



cate 

 flat; 



purplish, muri- 

 leavcs lanceolate, 

 stamens as long^s 



the corolla. 



Pursli, 1. p. 261, 



Flowers smaller than in the preceding 

 Grows along fences and in old fields. 

 I^lowers July — August, 



H 3 



species. 

 Jruish. 



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