OCTANDRIA MONOGYKIA. 441 



Stem 1 — ^ feet high, terete, pubescent. Leaves frtquently oblongs 

 ovate, with 2 small ones in the axils. Flowers in a terminal raceme. 

 Corolla yellow, Ion!>:er than the stamens. 



Gnnvs in the middle and upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 

 .' Flowers July— August. 



0. FM\SEni. Pursh. 



(E. glabriusciila ; caule | Nearly glabrous; stem 

 feme simpliri- foliiso- [ near the base simple ; 

 itis.petiolaris, denticula- j leaves ovate^^ petiolute, 



follosis; cap- denticulate ; racemes 



pedicellatis.obovatis, leafy ; capsules pedicel 



gOMis, Pursh, 2. p. 734. late, obovate, 4 angled 



This species is taien from Pursh, who remarks, that it differs from 

 the 0. fruticosa. to which perhaps it is too nearly allied, principally 

 in habit ; flowering but for a short period, and forming immediately 

 new tufts of radical leaves, which the O fruticosa 3oes not produce 

 ttntil late in autumn. 



Collected by Mr. Fraser in South-Carolina. 

 Flowers June — July. 



y. SlNUATA. 



CE. caule diffuso, piibes- 1 Stem diif.iso, pubescent ; 

 cerite ; foliis ovali-oblon- [ leaves oval oblong, tooth- 

 gis, dentatosinuatis ; flo- } ed and sinuate ; dowers 

 ribus axillaribus, villosis ; axillary, villous j capsules 

 capsulis prismaticis. — prismatick. 



Pursh, 1. p. 301. 



Sp. pi, 2. p. 309. Mich. 1. p. 224, 

 CEnothera biennis ? Walt p. 129. 

 CEtiothera minima, Pursh, I. p. 262. 



Stem 1—2 feet long, generally prostrate, branching, fmighened. 

 Leaves sessile, denticuhite near tfie summit, sinuate, almost pinnatifid 

 |iear the base. Flowers solitary, sessile. Corolla small, Petal> a» 

 long as the segments of the calyx, nearly obcordate, yellow. iSfyte 

 snorter than the corolla, woolly in the middle. Capsule cylindrical, 

 sessile, furrowed. 



In very <Iry, sandy soils this plant becomes very ditiinutive, its' 

 leaves small, and almost entire, and the flowers few. In this state I 

 suspect it is the (>. minima of Pursh, described from specimens cot- 

 iected in Georgia by Mr. Enslen. 



^ows generally in dry pasture??^* 



flowers April-^September. 



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