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ONAGRACEAE (EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY) 



doff her soft green hood and blossom 

 with a silken burst of sound." Sweet 

 odors pour from the pale yellow cups and 

 attract the night-flying moths, which fer- 

 tilize the flowers, and in the morning 

 sunlight the blossoms droop and wither. 

 Capsules an inch or more long, four-celled, 

 slightly hairy, splitting at the top into a 

 slender, vase-like shape ; they sway on 

 the tall stalks all winter and birds de- 

 stroy many of the seeds in their foraging. 

 (Fig. 206.) 



Means of control 



Cutting crown leaves from the roots 

 with spud or hoe in the first season ; close 

 cutting of flowering stalks while in early 

 bloom; plants with capsules formed 



FIG. 206. Evening should be cut and burned, as they ripen 

 Primrose (CEnothera bien- ,-, , 



M). xi. on the stalks. 



SUNDROPS 



(Enothbra fruticdsa, L. 

 (Knelffia fruticdsa, Raimann) 



Other English names: Day Primrose, Perennial Primrose. 



Native. Perennial. Propagated by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to August. 



Seed-lime: August to October. 



Range: Nova Scotia to Minnesota, southward to Georgia and 



Louisiana. 

 Habitat : Dry soil ; fields, meadows, and waste places. 



Stems rather slender, one to three feet tall, usually branched, 

 finely hairy or sometimes smooth. Leaves alternate, oblong to 

 lance-shaped, with few and shallow teeth, somewhat hairy, the 

 lower ones with petioles, those on the stem sessile, the upper ones 

 nearly linear. Flowers in terminal, leafy-bracted spikes, the blos- 

 soms sometimes nearly two inches broad, the petals notched at the 



