THE GEEATEE 

 WILLOW-HEEB. 



Epilobiu>n hirsutum. JTat. 

 Ord., Onagracece. 



O less than ten species of willow- 

 herb are found in Britain, most 

 of them being fairly commonly 

 distributed. The species figured 

 in our illustration will probably 

 be the best known of these, not 

 that it is commoner than any of the 

 others, but because, while as freely 

 met with as any of them, its large 

 ^ size tends to make it a conspicuous 

 feature in the localities it favours. It 

 is abundant over almost the whole of 

 England by the sides of streams, in osier 

 beds, and low-lying damp ground; but 

 is in Scotland one of the scarcer plants of the 

 Caledonian flora, which, in many respects, as 

 we have seen from time to time in our descriptions of the 

 plants before us, differs from that of England. 



The greater willow-herb is the Epilobium hirsutum of 

 the systematic botanist. The generic name Epilobiuni is 

 derived from two Greek words signifying upon a pod, 



