EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. Onagraceae. 



tube is so long, sometimes as much as seven inches, that it 

 looks like a stalk. The root is thick and woody and the cap- 

 sule is egg-shaped and ribbed, with no stem. There is a patch 

 of these wonderful flowers in the Grand Canyon on Bright 

 Angel trail, halfway between the rim and the plateau, 

 where in a shaded spot beside a great rock the pure 

 blossoms seem to shed a moonlight radiance. They are 

 equally beautiful on the dry plains of Utah, where they 

 grow in quantities. 



There are several kinds of Anogra, resembling Onagra, 

 but with white or pink flowers and the seeds differently 

 arranged; the stems often clothed with papery bark; the 

 buds drooping. The name is an anagram of Onagra. 



A conspicuous kind, often growing in 



Primros^ Vening lafge P atches ' with whitish downy, 

 jnogra otoi&ulis. branching stems, from a few inches to a 

 (Oenotherd) foot tall, often with shreddy bark, and 



White downy, pale bluish-green leaves, more or 



Spring, summer less toot h e( }. The drooping, downy buds 

 Southwest, etc. . , .,.,.,., , .< 



are tinted with reddish-pink and the 



lovely flowers are from one and a half to three inches across, 

 with pure white petals, tinted with yellow at base, chang- 

 ing to pink after pollination and fading to crimson. The 

 stamens have cobwebby threads, white filaments, an< 

 yellow anthers, the pistil is green and the curved capsule is 

 downy or hairy. The whole color scheme, of pale sea 

 green foliage, reddish buds, and white, rose-color, an( 

 crimson flowers, is delicate, harmonious, and effective, 

 This grows in sandy places, and on the prairies from Dakota 

 to Mexico. 



A pretty plant, with an erect, leafy 

 Cut-leaved stem, gix i nc h es to two f ee t tall, springing 



Evening Primrose - . , - , 



Anogra coronopi- from "inning rootstocks, and pale green 

 folia (Oenotherd) more or less downy, leaves, finely cut into 

 White numerous, small, narrow lobes, so thai 



delicate flowers are the usual Eveninj 

 Primrose shape, about an inch across, in the axils of th 

 leaves, with pure white petals, greenish at the base an< 

 turning pink in fading, and a calyx-tube two inches long 

 with turned-back, pinkish-green lobes. The anthers are 

 brown, the pistil green, the throat of the corolla is close( 

 by a fringe of white hairs, the buds are drooping and the 

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