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Order XLIV. Ol^AORARIiE, Juss. (Evening Primrose Family). 



Herbs with hermajphrodite^ (in ours) Tegular floioers^ 

 the calyx-tube adherent to the %4rcelled ovary ^ the lobes val- 

 vate in the bud / the stamens as many or twice as many as 

 the petals — C2i\jx.-\\mh 4-6- or rarely 2-parted. Petals as 

 many as calyx-lobes, alternate with them, contorted in the 

 bud. Stamens inserted with the petals at the throat of the 

 calyx. Ovary l-oo -celled. Style filiform, stigma capitate or 

 4-5-lobed. Ovules anatropous, l-coin cells. Fruit capsular or 

 nut-like. Seeds with or without albumen. 



1. EPILOBIUM, L. Willow-Herb. 



Calyx-tube scarcely prolonged beyond the ovary ; limb 4-cleft, 

 deciduous. Petals 4. Stamens 8, with linear or oblong anthers. 

 Stigmas 4, cruciform, or coalesced in a knob. Pod linear, 4-celled, 

 loculicidai, the valves separating from the 4-angled, seed-bearing column; 

 seeds numerous, with a tuft of long hairs at apex — Perennial herbs, 

 growing in marshy places, with alternate or opposite leaves, and spiked 

 or racemed, pink, white or violet flowers. 



* Shoots not separated from root. Flowers crateriform. Stamens rejlexed. 



1. E, ipicatum, Lam. % Rose Bay. 1. Leaves lanceolate, 

 entire or obsoletely glandular-g'errate. Raceme terminal, .3 to .4 long, 

 leafless or leafy only at base ; petals obovate, pink, short-clawed ; style 

 villous above base, somewhat longer than stamens — Summer — Subal- 

 pine and alpine Lebanon, and probably Amanus. 



* * Stolons formimg new, at length separate plants. Flowers funnel- 

 shaped. Stamens erect. 



t Stem terete, not angled or heeled. 



2. E. hirsutum, L. .6 to 1. Villous and glandular-pubescent. 



Leaves more or less hirsute, oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, cus- 

 pidate, denticulate, clasping, somewhat decurrent. Calyx-lobes lan- 

 ceolate, aristate; corolla pink, .013 to .015 broad — Summer and early 

 Autumn — 



Var. tomentosum, Boiss. More or less canescent — Much com- 

 moner than type ; coast and interior to 1500 m. 



3. E. parviflorum, Schreb. .5 tol, velvety-pubescent. Leaves 

 except lowermost sessile, lanceolate, acute, denticulate. Calyx-lobes 

 oblong, acute, muticous, three-fourths as longSLSvioletorwhitef inconspic- 

 uous, .002 h'oad corolla — Summer — Common in mountains to 3000 m. 



Var. menthoides, Boiss. Leaves ovate-oblong, rather obtuse — 

 Subalpine Lebanon. 



1 1 Stems angled with 2-4:-elevated, decurrent lines, 

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