CLASS VUI. ORDER, I.J EPILOBIUM. 545 



clothed with a thick soft down. Inflorescence a large terminal leafy 

 corymh, of numerous large rose coloured flotvers^ the calyx tube ob- 

 tusely four angled and furrowed, the limb of four ovate lanceolate 

 concave pieces, with an obtuse mucro at the point. Petals inversely 

 heart-shaped, of a delicate pink, as long again as the calyx segments. 

 Stamens with erect simple filaments and ovate two celled yellow 

 anthers. Style erect, with a four cleft large white stigma, spreading 

 or reflexed. Capsule very long, clothed with short soft down, some- 

 times with long spreading hairs, four valved, four celled, and many 

 seeded, the seeds small, ovate, crowned with a tuft of soft white longish 

 hairs. 



Habitat. — Watery places, the banks of ditches, damp hedges, &c. ; 

 frequent. 



Flowering in June and July. 



A remarkable variety is found on the Continent, and probably with 

 us also. The stem, branches, and leaves, are clothed with close soft 

 hairs, but the peduncles and calyx are covered with very long woolly 

 hairs. It is the /5. intermedium of De Candolle Prod. vol. 3, p. 42, 

 and the y. villosissimum of Koch. Fl. Germ, et Helvet. p. 240, and the 

 E. intermedium of Merat. Fl. par. 147. 



It is a gay pretty looking plant on the margins of lakes, the banks of 

 rivers, &c. ; but much less elegant in its appearance than the E. 

 angustifolium, and is much less frequently cultivated in our gardens 

 than that species. 



3. E. parvifiorum, Schreb. (Fig. 620.) Small-fiowered hairy Willow 

 herb. Stem erect, round, simple, very downy ; leaves sessile, lanceo- 

 late, distantly serrated, downy on both sides ; stigmas four-cleft, 

 spreading ; root fibrous. 



English Botany, t. 795. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 214. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 183.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 180. — E. molle. 

 Lam. Diet. 1, p. 475. — E. hirsutum, /3. Linn. — E. villosum. Curt. 

 Lond. fasc. 2, t. 22- 



Root of numerous long branched fibres. Stem erect, from one to 

 three feet high, round, simple, rarely branched, leafy, clothed with a 

 soft down, more or less dense. Leaves lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, 

 sessile, opposite in the lower part of the stem, above alternate, clothed 

 on both sides with a thickish short soft simple down, paler on the under 

 side than above, the margins indistinctly serrated with short small 

 distant teeth, sometimes altogether wanting. Inflorescence a terminal 

 leafy sub-corymb, mostly of numerous powers, which are much smaller 

 than the last, on short slender peduncles, of rather a pale rose colour. 

 Calyx with a four bluntly angled furrowed tube, and a limb of four 

 ovate oblong hairy pieces. Petals four, inversely heart-shaped, short 

 clawed, of a pale rose or purplish colour. Stamens erect, on slender 

 simple filaments, with roundish two celled yellow anthers, the style 

 erect, simple, with a four-cleft rather large stigma, the lobes spreading, 



