NOCTURNAL OR HAWK-MOTH FLOWERS 



corolla-tubes, and are sweet-scented. In the pink family there 

 are the sand-pink (Dianthus arenaria), bouncing bet (Saponaria 



Fig. 70. Evening-Primrose. Oenothera biennis 



A hawk-moth flower 



officinalis) common along roadsides (Fig. 74), white lychnis 

 (L. album), and evening-lychnis (L. vespertina) , and the 

 long-flowered catchfly (SUene longiflora), and the nodding 



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