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(ENOTHERA ONOBRYCHIS. 



shaped, on long stalks, deeply jagged 

 or toothed towards the base, about 

 the length of the calyx -tube. North 



America. Borders, beds, and the 



rock-garden, in light rich soil. Seed. 

 (Enothera missouriensis (Missouri 

 CE.) (Enothera macrocarpa. A hand- 

 some prostrate species, 9 to 12 in. 

 high. Flowers, in summer ; light yel- 

 low, with orange veins, axillary, very 

 large ; corolla 4 to 6 in. across ; 

 petals, roundish-fan-shaped; tube of 

 the calyx often more than 4 in. long. 

 Leaves, thick, lance-shaped, acute, 

 tapering into a short stalk, greyish 

 when young, obscurely toothed. Mis- 

 souri, on dry hills, and on the Canadian 



River. Borders, or rockwork, in 



sandy loam. Seed, division, or cuttings. 



(Enothera riparia (Rock Evening 

 Primrose}. A showy useful kind, 2 to 

 3 ft. high. Flowers, in summer ; large, 

 yellow,in a somewhat leafy lengthened 

 raceme ; scarcely fragrant, erect be- 

 fore expansion, unchanged in fading ; 

 petals slightly obcordate. Leaves, 

 linear -lance-shaped, remotely toothed 

 or entire, rather thick, mostly blunt, 

 2 to 4 in. long, and pubescent along 

 the midrib and margins ; stems slen- 

 der, often twiggy, branched. North 



America. Borders, or margins of 



shrubberies, in ordinary soil. Divi- 

 sion or seed. 



(Enothera speciosa (Tall White Even- 

 ing Primrose}. A very distinct, hand- 

 some, erect-growing kind, varying from 

 6 in. to 2 ft. high. Flowers, in summer ; 

 white, large, fragrant, drooping before 

 expansion, turning to rose when fading ; 

 in a lengthened spike. Leaves, lance- 

 shaped or oblong-lance-shaped, taper- 

 ing at the base ; root- and lower stem- 

 leaves twice divided or pinnately 

 toothed near the base, the uppermost 

 ones denticulate or remotely toothed, 

 varying considerably in the degree of 

 division, as well as in the pubescence ; 

 stems often slightly woody at the 



base, erect or ascending, branching. 

 South parts of North America. 

 Borders, in sandy soil. Division and seed. 



(Enothera taraxacifolia (Dandelion- 

 leaved (E.) A popular and beautiful 

 prostrate plant. Flowers, in summer ; 

 large, white, changing to red when 

 fading; tube very long, petals large, 

 obovate, entire, 5-nerved; tube of 

 calyx cylindrical, widened at the 

 apex. Leaves, pubescent, alternate, 

 pinnatifid, sinuately toothed, but en- 

 tire at the apex ; stem lengthened, 

 branched, prostrate. Chili. Bor- 

 ders,^ good soil. Some of this should 

 be annually raised from seed, as it is 

 useful for surfacing beds containing 

 larger subjects. 



Omphalodes verna (Creeping Forget- 

 me-not), Resembling a handsome 

 Forget-me-not, but with creeping 

 shoots ; 6 in. high. Flowers, in early 

 spring ; blue, in shape like those of 

 Borage, but smaller, about | in. across, 

 in few-flowered racemes, on erect, sim- 

 ple, smooth stems emitting stolons at 

 their base. Leaves, on long slender 

 stalks, bright green; root- leaves heart- 

 shaped ; stem - leaves broad - lance- 

 shaped, or oval ; rhizome creeping 

 underground. Southern Europe, in 



woods. Naturalized in woods and 



shrubberies, and also in borders or on 

 rockwork, in sandy loam. Division. 



Omphalodes Lucilise (Rock 0.} An 

 exquisite perennial, with glaucous 

 leaves ; 4 to 6 in. high. Flowers, in 

 summer ; broadly -funnel-shaped, fine 

 lilac-blue, nearly ^ in. across ; twice, 

 or more than twice, as large as those 

 of 0. verna. Leaves, oblong-obtuse, 

 those of the root narrowed into a long 

 footstalk, those of the stem sessile, 

 the upper ones ovate. Asia Minor. 



The rock-garden, in warm spots, 



in fine sandy soil, and in beds of dwarf 

 shrubs, etc. Seed and division. 



Onobrychis montana (Mountain 0.} 

 A pleasing, almost decumbent, rock- 



