AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 143 
with leafy clusters of large rose-coloured flowers, 
so abundant in watery places, and on banks of 
rivers, forming a great feature of our English 
Summer Flora, with clasping leaves, and round 
woolly glandular stem; and £. angustzfolium, 
Rose-bay W. H., a plant comparatively rare, 
found on damp borders of woods, 3 to 6 feet 
high, with long terminal racemes of rich crim- 
son flowers, and lanceolate, veined, and g/ad- 
vous, smooth, leaves, stem also glabrous and 
reddish ; it is frequently cultivated in gardens. 
The genus Epilobium is of Linn. Cl. Octan- 
dria, and of. Nat. Ord. ONAGRACE#, sometimes 
called the Fuchsia Family ; and there are some 
points of resemblance between the flowers of 
Epilobium, especially in the two larger species 
last named, and the Fuchsia flower. 
/Enothera, Evening Primrose, two species, 
scarcely indigenous to this country, belongs to 
the same Nat. Order; also /snardia palustris, 
the very rare plant formerly found at Peters- 
field, in Hampshire, and also in Sussex, named 
after d’Isnard, a French Botanist; and the two 
species of Czrcg@a, Enchanter’s Nightshade, one 
of which, C. /u¢efzana, is common in woods, and 
bears a raceme of whitish flowers with 2 
