—— Qnothera.] LI. ONAGRARIE®. 303 
- sessile in a long terminal spike often leafy at the base. Ovary and adnate 
part of the calyx about 6 to 8 lines long, the free part of the calyx- tube at 
least 1 in. long. Petals broad and spreading.. hema divided into 4 linear 
lobes. Capsules 2 to 1 in. long, scarcely ang 
A plant of N. American n origin, long ating in gen d ps and other men 
ud readily Re, peg in waste places on river banks, da now said to be 
in many M N. S. Wales , Victoria, and S.A trali 
. Œ. tasmanica, Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. i. 119. A small plant, with 
lender ` inu or creeping stems of a few inches, glabrous or slightly pu- 
nt. Lower leaves opposite, the others alternate, sessile or nearly so, 
oblong, obtuse, ns exceeding 3 in., glabrous, with crisped more or less 
toothed margins lowers small, yellow, sessile or nearly so, solitary in the 
` xii of the leaves. Calyx-tube at the time of flowering not excee eding the 
The specimens =a dem ery goo od flowers. They eng nearly resemble the broad-leaved 
Varieties. of (E, dentata, Cav., distin nguished by Spach as Holostigma heterophyllum. -This 
speci m S. Chile to California, iuf differs from the Tasmanian one chiefly in the 
rather longer more angular capsule. Further specimens may possibly show the two to be 
only of one species, 
2. EPILOBIUM, Linn. 
cO ien at all or vr produced above the ovary; lobes 4, de- 
ciduous, s 4. Stamens ae nthers = or oblong. sc inferior, 
onga opening tuft of long in 4 valves from the summit downwards. 
Seeds sma 
zn An inordinate multi tiplication of s specie: F. Mueller, on the other hand 
: ies Chath. Isl. 15), proposes to mance whole of the New Zealand and Australian 
tity ogee Linnen Æ. tetragon ich ardly be concurred in by et 
ose from 
tra i racters observed. 
Da ar aeee: thia difficulty of jud ing of the relative value of the characters : 
seribed in. nal offshoots, dien sts sm ful in in European species, are not de 
_ any of the Australian on ones, and do not appear een ZER 
x » densely ett SE or shortly mn eg the 
tne, aad 1. E. confertifotium. 
ie or decumbent at the base only. 
