OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. CEnothera. 211 



the petals. A^ith. linear-oblong, peltate, incumbent. 

 Germ, inferior, oblong, furrowed. Style thread-shaped, 

 the length of the stamens. Stigma in 4 thick, obtuse, 

 spreading segments. Caps, oblong, bluntly quadran- 

 gular, with 4.< furrows, 4 cells, and 4 valves. Seeds nu- 

 merous, angular, beardless. Becept, linear, quadrangular, 

 unconnected. 

 Herbs with simple, entire, toothed, or cut, leaves. Fl. soli- 

 tary, from the bosoms of the upper leaves, large and 

 handsome, short-lived, yellow, white, or purple. Most 

 of the species are natives of America, or of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



1. OE. biennis. Common Evening-primrose. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, flat. Stem rough, somewhat hairy. 

 Stamens equal. Petals undivided. 



CE. biennis. Linn. Sp. PL 492. Willd. v. 2. 306. Engl. Bot. v. 22. 



t.l534. Comp.59. Purt. v. 3. 355. Ait.H. Kew.ed.2.v.2.3A\. 



Roth Germ.v.l. 168. i;. 2. p. I. 439. Fl.Dan. f. 446. 

 CE. foliis ovato-lanceolatis planis. Linn, f^irid. Cliff". 33. Mill. 



Ic. 126. t.]89.f.2. 

 CE. n. 994. Plall. Hist. v. 1 .425. 



Lysiniachia lutea corniculata. Bauh. Pin. 245. app. 516. 

 L. lutea corniculata non papposa, virginiana^ major. Moris, v. 2. 



271.sec^.3.<. 11./.7. 

 L. lutea siliquosa virginiana. Park. Parad. 264. t. 263. f. 6. 

 Hyosciamus virginianus. Alpin. Exot. 325. t.32A. 



On sandy banks, on the west coast of England. 



Between the first and second ranges of sand-banks, on the coast 

 of Lancashire, a few miles north of Liverpool, in the greatest 

 abundance. Dr. Bostock and Mr. John Shepherd. It covers se- 

 veral acres of ground near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Mr. D. Turner. 

 On the banks of the Arrow, Warwickshire. Mr. Purton. 



Biennial. Julij — September. 



Root tapering. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, often branched, leafy, an- 

 gular, rough with minute tubercles, and more or less hairy. 

 Leaves alternate, ovate, or lanceolate, acute, toothed, downy, 

 grass-green ; the lowermost stalked, wavy, much the largest. 

 Flowers numerous, bright yellow, forming terminal leafy spikes. 

 They e.Kpand in an evening, and are delicately fragrant. Capstde 

 short, rough. 



This CEnothera is common in gardens, and often escapes from 

 thence into rich waste ground. But on the dreary sands of our 

 Lancashire coast it is truly wild ; being planted there by the 

 hand of Nature, tliougli perhaps transported, by natural means, 

 from the oilier side of the Atlantic. 



