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erect, 1-3 ft., leafy, more or less hairy: flowers yellow, 1-2 in. in diameter, 

 in corymbed racemes, open in daytime: pod decidedly 4-angled and 4- 

 ribbed, rather downy, shortly stalked. Dry soil. 



<E. pumila, Linn. Resembles preceding, but smaller, 5-12 inches high: 

 corolla yellow, about H m - across: pod smooth, 4-angled, sessile or short- 

 stalked. Dry soil. 



2. FtCHSIA. Figs. 172, 183, 205. 



Herbs or shrubby plants (some trees): leaves opposite, or 3 in a whorl: 

 flowers drooping, axillary; calyx-tube colored, extended beyond ovary; 

 margin 4-lobed, spreading; petals 4 on throat of calyx; stamens 8, project- 

 ing; style long: fruit a 4-celled berry. A number of species of these orna- 

 mental plants in cultivation. Mainly native to South America. 



F. magellanica, Lam. Smooth and tender: leaves simple, toothed, 

 slender-petioled: flowers hanging on long peduncles from leaf axils; calyx 

 red, lobes long, exceeding the tube and the petals; petals blue or purple or 

 red, obovate, notched, convolute about the bases of the long filaments and 

 style. The common window-garden fuchsias (F. speciosa) have descended 

 from this species, more or less hybridized with others. 



3. EPILOBIUM. WILLOW-HERB. 



Mostly perennials, with leaves nearly sessile, alternate or opposite: 

 flowers white or purple, spicate, racemed, or solitary; calyx-tube little 

 if any longer than ovary, limb 4-cleft; petals 4; stamens 8; stigma 4-lobed: 

 fruit linear, 4-sided, dehiscent by 4 loculicidal valves, many-seeded: seeds 

 with tuft of long, silky hair attached to tip. 



E. angustifolium, Linn. Purple fireweed. Stem simple, erect, 4-7 ft.: 

 lower leaves alternate, lanceolate, nearly entire: racemes long, terminal, 

 showy; flowers large, about 1 in. across, reddish purple. Common in woods. 



4. CIRCJSA. ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE. 



Low, delicate, and insignificant perennial herbs, with creeping root- 

 stocks: leaves opposite, very thin, petioled: flowers very small, in terminal 

 and lateral racemes; calyx-tube slightly prolonged beyond ovary; parts of 

 the flower in 2's. Damp, shady places. Summer. 



C. Lutetiana, Linn. Stem erect, 1-2 ft. tall, pubescent: leaves ovate, 

 slightly repand-toothed : flowers white or pink, about % in. in diameter, on 

 slender pedicels, bractless: fruit small, round, 2-celled, bristly. The com- 

 mon species in damp, shady places in summer. 



XXXII. UMBELLtFEILE. PARSLEY FAMILY. 



Herbs, mostly strong-scented and with compound alternate leaves 

 petioles expanded or sheathing at the base: flowers small, mostly 

 perfect, 5-merous, epigynous, in umbels or umbel-like clusters; stamens 

 5: fruit consisting of 2 carpels, which are dry and seed-like and 



