546 EPILOBIUM. [CLASS VHI. ORDER I. 



not leflexed. Capsule long, slender, four angled, furrowed, nearly 

 smooth or downy, four valved, four-celled, and many seeded, the seeds 

 small, ovate, crowned with a tuft of long silky hairs. 



Habitat. — Marshes, wet meadows, the banks of streams, ditches, 

 &c.; frequent. 



Perennial ; flowering in July. 



The leaves of this species are very variable in length and width, and 

 sometimes greatly resembles small specimens of E. hirsutum ; but the 

 stem is rarely branched, the flowers are much smaller, and the lobes 

 of the stigmas are spreading, not reflexed. 



4. E. monta'num, Linn. (Fig. 621.) Broad smooth-leaved Willow 

 herb. Stem erect, round, pubescent; leaves ovate or oveKe oblong, 

 unequally toothed, the lower opposite, shortly petiolated ; stigmas four- 

 cleft, spreading ; root fibrous. 



English Botany, t. 1174.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 214. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 183. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 180. 



/3. verticillatum, Koch. Leaves three in a whorl, smooth, with 

 downy veins. 



Itoot fibrous. Stem mostly erect, from one to two feet high or more, 

 round, covered with a short close pubescence, simple or branched up- 

 wards, leafy. Leaves numerous, ovate or ovate oblong, mostly with a 

 lanceolate point, sometimes obtuse, on short footstalks, rarely sessile, 

 opposite in the lower part of the stem, alternate above, sometimes they 

 are all opposite, and at others alternate, smooth and glossy, of a cheerful 

 green, paler on the under side, with a stout mid-rib and branched 

 downy veins, occasionally of a pinkish colour, the margin irregularly 

 serrated, with unequal teeth, mostly numerous, sometimes distant and 

 small. Inflorescence a terminal leafy elongated corymb of axillary 

 flowers, of a pale pink colour. Calyx tube downy, obtusely four 

 angled, furrowed, with a limb of four ovate lanceolate pieces. Petals 

 four, inversely heart-shaped, of a pale pink, sometimes white, nearly as 

 long again as the calyx. Stamens on slender erect filaments, with 

 small ovate two celled yellow anthers, the style longer than the stamen, 

 with a four-cleft spreading stigma. Capsule very long, of four valves, 

 four cells, and many seeded, the seeds small, ovate, crowned with a 

 tuft of white long silky hairs. 



Habitat. — Dry shady banks, walls, &c.; frequent. 



Flowering in June and July. 



This is a very variable species as to size and the situation of its 

 leaves. The variety jS. verticillata is a very remarkable one, and is 

 nearly allied to E. irigonum, of Schrank, which is distinguished by 

 the stem being marked with from two to four elevated lines, and the 

 lobes of the stigmas being united into a club-shape. 



b. Stigmas entire, or club-shaped. 



5, E. rose'um, Schreber, (Fig. 622.) Pale smoothdcaved Willotvherb. 



