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4, Epilobium molle, Torr. Soft Willow-herb. 



Whole plant clothed with a soft dense velvety pubescence ; stem terete, straight and erect ; 

 leaves alternate and opposite, crov^ded, sessile, lanceolate or oblong-Hnear, remotely repand- 

 denticulate or entire ; petals deeply emarginate, tvsrice the length of the calyx ; stigma large 

 and thick, somewhat turbinate ; capsules elongated, on longish pedicels. — Torr.fl. \.p. 393 ; 

 Torr. 4" Gr. fi. N. Am. \. p. 390. E. strictum, Muhl. cat. p. 39 ; Spreng. yyst. 2. p. 233 ; 

 Beck, hot. p. 117. 



Perennial. Stem 1 i - 2 feet high, slender, nearly simple or somewhat branched. Leaves 

 1 - 1 J inch long and 2-4 lines wide, closely sessile, mostly fasciculate in the axils ; the 

 margin with remote obscure glandular teeth. Flowers axillary in the upper part of the stem, 

 2-3 lines in diameter. Segments of the calyx lanceolate. Petals pale purple or rose-color. 

 Stamens included. Capsules about 2i inches long when mature, tapering at the base into a 

 pedicel half an inch or more in length. 



Sphagnous swamps in the northern and western part of the State. August - September. 



6. Epilobium palustre, Linn. Narrow-leaved Willow-herb. 



Stem terete, clothed with a minute crisped pubescence ; leaves lanceolate, rather acute, 

 attenuate at the base, nearly sessile, entire or obscurely denticulate , the lower ones opposite ; 

 petals rose-color, about twice the length of the calyx ; stigma clavate ; capsules pubescent, 

 on short pedicels. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 348 ; Lehm. in Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 207. 



var. albiflorum : stem slender, at first simple ; leaves narrowly linear, slightly denticulate 

 or entire ; capsules canescent. — Lehm. I. c. ; Torr. Sf Gr.fl. N. Am. 1. p. 490. E. palustre, 

 var. albescens, Wahl.fl. Suec. l.p. 234. E. oliganthum, Michx. fl. l.p. 223; DC. prodr. 

 3. p. 43. E. rosmarinifolium, Pursh, fl. I. p. 259 ; Torr. fl.l. p. 392, not of DC. E. 

 lineare, Muhl. cat. p. 39 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 147. E. squamatum, Nutt. gen. 1. p. 250; 

 DC. I. c; Beck, hot. p. 116 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 239. 



Perennial. Stem very slender, 1-2 feet high, finally branching at the summit ; the 

 pubescence very short, but woolly or crisped. Leaves about an inch long, revolute on the 

 margin, a little pubescent on both sides. Flowers about as large as in E. coloratum, pale 

 purple or nearly white. Capsules hoary-pubescent, an inch and a half long. 



Sphagnous swamps ; rather rare. August. 



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