ONAGRARlEyt 



Onagrarieae 



Herbaceous plants or shrubs; leaves opposite or al- 

 ternate, simple, exstipulate; flowers usually solitary or 

 in racemes or spikes; calyx generally with 4 divisions, 

 forming a valve, which, e. g. in (Enothera macrocarpa, is 

 much elongated; petals borne on the calyx alternately 

 with the stamens; stamens 1-2 seriate; style simple; fruit 

 mostly capsular, sometimes a berry as in the Fuschia. 



Epilobium 



En^.: Willow-Herb; Fr.:Epilobe; Ger.: Weidenroschen. 



No one can deny the magnificence of these gorgeous 

 beauties in their proper place whether the common 

 hirsututn in hedge-row or railway cutting, angusHfolium 

 in its native glades or arrogantly overrunning the wild 

 garden, or the exquisite Dodonxi and obcordatum (from 

 the Rockies) in the alpine rockery yet even these to be 

 planted with careful regard for the weaker folk, being 

 themselves infected with the masterful spirit of the family. 

 They are distinguished by a Jongish calyx-tube, yet not 

 prolonged above the ovary, with a four-partite limb, deci- 

 duous after florescence; the petals are four, the stamens 

 eight, of which every other one is shortened. 



E. angusHfolium* (E. spicatum). This is the plant with 

 strong, tall stems, bearing laureolate leaves like to those 

 of the willows known in France as Laurier de St-Antoine 



