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ONAGRACEJi]. Evening-Primeose Family. 



CIRC^A, Tourn. Enchanter's-Nigutsecade. 



C. Liitetiana, L. Tall Enchanter 's-Nightshade. 

 Common throughout the state. 



C. alpina, L. Low Enchanter's-Nightshade. 



Common through the north half of the state ; extending south at least to Anoka 

 county, Juni, Minneapolis, Herrick, and Lake City, Mrs, Bay. 



GAUKA, L. Gaura. 



G-. bieunis, L. Gaura. 



Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Southeast. 



G. coccinea, Nutt.* Gaura. 



Herman, Grant county, Upliam, Roberts; ridge east of the Red river, near the inter- 

 national boundary (infrequent), ScoW; plains of the Red river, Brummoncl, Douglas. 



West. 



EPILOBIUM, L. Willow-herb. 



E. spicatxim, Lam. (E. angustifolium, L.) Great Willow-herb. Fh-e-weed. 

 Common, or frequent, through the forest portion of the state ; conspicuous on tracts 

 of burned woodland. A caneseent variety, besides the type, occurs at the lake of the 

 Woods, Dawson. 



E. orig-anifoliiiin, T-aT.. (E. alpinum, L., var. majus, Wahl.) Willow- 

 herb. 

 Winona county, Holzinger; Minneapolis. Kassuhe; Minneopa Falls, Blue Eartli 

 county, Leiberg. Rare southward, but probably frequent northward. 



E. palustre, L , var. liaeare. Gray. Liuear-leaved Epilobium. 



Common, or frequent, through the north half of the state, and soutliwestward ; 

 rare southeastward. 



E. nioUe, Torr. Downy Wiliow-herb. 



Blue Earth county, Lelberg; Minneapolis, Simmojis; Anoka county, Juni. In- 

 frequent. 



E. coloratum, Muhl. Willow-herb. 



Common throughout the state, especially northward. 



CENOTHERA, L. Evening-Primrose. 



CE. bieunis, L. Common Evening- Primrose. 

 Common throughout the state. 



CE. biennis, L , var. grandiflora, Lmdl. 



At the northwest side of Mille Lacs, Upliam. [The var. rauricata, Lindl,, also quite 

 certainly occurs in this state.] 



*Gauba coccinea, Nutt. Caneseent, puberulent orglabrate ; stems suffructicose 

 and fastigiately branched from the base, 6 to 12 inches high, very leafy, ascending ; 

 leaves lanceolate, linear-oblong or linear, repand-denticulate or entire, 6 to 12 lines 

 long, closely sessile ; flowers in simple spikes terminating the leafy branches, rose- 

 color, turning to scarlet; bracts linear, rather persistent, longer than the ovaries; 

 calj x-segments linear-oblong, shorter than the narrow infundibuliform tube, as long as 

 the roundish, unguiculate petals ; fruit elliptical, sessile, short, terete, 4-sided above. 

 Porter and Coulter's Flora of Colorado. 



