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EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY. * 



smaller entire petals, but pods and seeds like the foregoing 5 and OS. 

 xfFiDA, with petals as in CE. trichocalyx, and similar pods, but with striate 

 and reticulated seeds, all handsome white-flowered species of Western plains 'i 

 and the Rocky Mountains, are beginning to be cultivated.) 



# # * YELLOW-FLOWERED, DIURNAL, sometimes called SUNDROPS, the blos- 



soms opening in bright sunshine : petals mostly obcordate : stems leafy : 

 leaves obscurely toothed or entire. Wild species of the country, all but the 

 last occasionally cultivated. ~^. 



Pod short-oblong or obovate, ^-wing-angled. 



CE. glaiica. Wild from Virginia and Kentucky near and in the moun- 

 tains S.-: l-2 high, smooth, pale and glaucous, leafy to the top ; leaves ovate 

 or lance-ovate ; corolla 2' or more in diameter. 



i- - Pod club-shaped, somewhat 4-wing-anylcd above, and 4 intervening ribs. 



CE. fruticbsa. Wild in open places : not shrubby, as the name would 

 implv, hairy or nearly smooth, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, somewhat 

 corymbed flowers l^'-2' in diameter, and short-stalked pods. 



CE. linearis. Wild from Long Island S. near the coast : pale or somewhat 

 hoary with minute pubescence, with slender and spreading often bushy-branched 

 stems l'-2' long, linear or lance-linear leaves, and somewhat corymbed flowers, 

 corolla 1'- 1^' across, and hoary pods tapering into a slender stalk. A spread- 

 ing form is cultivated, blooming very freely through the summer. 



CE. pumila. In fields, &c. : nearly smooth, 5' -12' high, with mostly 

 simple erect or ascending stem, oblanceolate leaves, and scattered flowers, the 

 corolla less than 1' across, and pods short-stalked or sessile. 



* * * * RED-PURPLE-FL., DIURNAL, leafy -stemmed : pods club-shaped. @ 



CE. r6S6a, from Mexico. Minutely downy, with slender spreading stems 

 6' -24' high, ovate or lance-oblong leaves, the lower sometimes rather pin- 

 natifld, and flowers 1' across in leafy racemes. 



2. GODETIA. Stigma ivith 4 linear or short and broad lobes : tube of the calyx 

 beyond the linear or spindle-shaped ovary inversely conical or funnel-shaped : 

 leafy -stemmed : flowers open by day, scentless : petals broad and fan-shaped 

 or wedge-shaped, the truncate summit generally eroded, lilac-purple, rose- 

 color, or sometimes white : anthers erect on short (the alternate ones on very 

 short) and broadish filaments, curving after opening. All W. American, 

 abounding in Oregon and California, several in the gardens, the following 

 most common. (T) 



CE. purptirea. Very leafy to the top, rather stout, 6' -10' high, at length 

 with many short branches; leaves pale, lance-oblong, entire; corolla 1 '-!' 

 across, purple, with a dark eye ; short and broad lobes of stigma dark-colored ; 

 pods short and thick, closely sessile, rather conical. 



CE. rubiciinda. Taller, l-2 high, and linear-lanceolate leaves rather 

 scattered along the slender branches ; corolla 2' or more across, lilac-purple 

 with saffron-colored eye (also pale or rose-colored varieties) ; lobes of stigma 

 oblong, pale ; pods thickish, cylindrical, sessile. 



CE. Lindleyi. Erect or spreading, 8' -16' high, with slender branches, 

 narrow lanceolate leaves ; corolla about 2' across, lilac-purple, with a deeper red- 

 purple spot on the middle of each petal ; lobes of the stigma linear and pale ; 

 pods stender, linear, somewhat tapering at the ends. 



CE. amosna. Slender, 6'- 18' high, with lance-oblong or lance-linear 

 leaves, and corolla 2' -3' across, rose-color or almost white, with usually a deeper 

 reddish eye ; lobes of stigma linear ; pods linear. 



8. JUSSI2EA. (Named for Bernard, the elder de Jussieu.) Leaves entire. 

 Flowers yellow, all summer. 



J. dectirrens. Wet grounds, Virg. to 111. and S. Erect stems and slen- 

 der branches margined or winged in lines proceeding from the bases of the 

 lanceolate leaves, smooth throughout ; flowers sessile or short-stalked, with 4 

 lobes of calyx nearly as long as the petals, and oblong-club-shaped 4-angled 

 pod. $ 



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