286 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
three plants make the f+ 3 barren heaths look quite 
brilliant in this, and the following month. In Cornwall is 
found a beautiful species called 2. vagrans, which, at pre- 
sent, has not been seen elsewhere. 
OcTANDRIA. MONOGYNTA. 
CALYCIFLORZ. ONAGRACES. 
EPILOBIUM. (WiLLow-HERB.) 
Generic Character. Calyx above the fruit, divided into four, 
and falling off. Petals four. Seed-vessel very long, containing ~ 
many seeds, each having a tuft of hairs at one end. 
The seed-vessel, of all the species, when fully ripe, is a 
very pretty object, it divides at the top, and as it splits 
down displays the small seeds, each invested with a tuft of 
down; these hang to the pod for some time ready to be 
blown away, and spread about, as soon as they are thoroughly 
ripe. 
EPILoBium aNneustiroLium. Sose-bag Willow-herb. A 
very handsome plant indeed, and far from common, found + 
on moist banks and margins of woods, in Surrey and Sussex. - 
Stems from four to six feet high, leaves scattered, long and 
