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Stamens 8 ; anthers usually long. Ovary 4-celled ; style filiform, stigma 

 capitate entire or 4-lobed ; ovules many, 1-2-seriate, horizontal or ascend- 

 ing. Capsule 4- rarely 1-celled, splitting from the top downwards into 

 4 septiferous valves, usually leaving the seeds on the axis, sometimes 

 indehiscent. Seeds many or few, sometimes appendaged. — Distrib. 

 Temp. N. and S. America, rarely tropical ; one Tasmanian ; species 100. 

 — Etym. obscure. 



(E. bien'nis, L. ; erect, leaves ovate-lanceolate, capsule oblong 



subcylindric. 



A garden escape in several places; fl. July-Sept. — Annual or biennial, 

 pubescent or hairy, 2-3 ft. Leaves 3-6 in., remotely toothed ; petiole short, 

 midrib stout white. Flowers 3-3J in. diam., subspicate, sessile, golden 

 yellow. Calyx-lobes much longer than the ovary. Petals obcordate. 

 Capsule 1-2 in., narrowed upwards, obtusely 4-ribbed. — Distrib. N. 

 America. 



(E. odora'ta, Jacq. ; erect, leaves linear-lanceolate waved, capsule 

 elongate cylindric. 

 Coasts of Somerset and Cornwall ; a garden escape ; fl. July-Sept. — Perennial. 



Stem 1-2 ft., usually purplish, branched, clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves 



3-6 in., lower nearly flat, nerves green or purple. Flowers yellow, 3-4 in. 



diam., fragrant. Capsule 2 in., pubescent. — Distrib. Patagonia. 



3. ClRCffi'A, Toum. Enchanter's Nightshade. 



Slender erect herbs, with creeping rootstocks. Stem simple. Leaves 

 opposite, petioled, toothed. Flowers small, white, in terminal and lateral 

 peduncled racemes, honeyed. Calyx-tube ovoid ; limb 2-parted, reflexed, 

 deciduous. Petals obcordate and stamens 2, inserted under the margin 

 of an epigynous disk. Ovary 1-2-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate 

 2-lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell, ascending, placentas axile. Fruit ovoid 

 or pyriform, 1-2-celled, indehiscent, covered with hooked bristles, cells 

 1 -seeded. Seeds oblong, attached by the middle. — Distrib. Europe, 

 temp. Asia, and JST. America; species 2 or 3. — Etym. Circe, the 

 enchantress. 



1. C. lutetia'na, L. ; glandular-pubescent, leaves ovate faintly toothed 

 not shining, fruit broadly obovoid 2-seeded. 



Damp woods, from Argyll and Aberdeen southd. ; ascends to 1,200 ft. in York- 

 shire ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. June- Aug. — Stem 1-2 ft., erect or 

 ascending, terete, subsimple ; nodes swollen. Leaves 1-3 in., petiole almost 

 as long, covered with translucent dots, rounded truncate or cordate at the 

 base. Flowers % in. diam. in lax erect terminal racemes, white or pink, 

 proterandrous ; pedicels § in., slender, jointed at the base, patent, reflexed 

 in fruit ; bracts usually 0. Disk tumid. Fruit % in. — Distrib. Europe, 

 N. Africa, N. and W. Asia to the Himalaya, N. America. 



2. C. alpi'na, L. ; smaller, less hairy, leaves shining more deeply 

 toothed, ovary less hispid, fruit 1 -seeded. 



