OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 107 



wise. E. B. 1947. C. 2. 24. Chameenerion. G. 

 E. 477. 



Woods. Grays, near Henley, 8m. Eng. Fl. Stokenchurch. 

 8h. (Outside of a Copse beyond Childswell Farm. Bx\) 



Per. June. 



Stems three to six f., erect, wand-like, leafy, smooth. Ls. nume- 

 rous, nearly stalkless, acute, entire, or slightly toothed. Fi. in 

 a long, upright spike, handsome. Stalks and CaL reddish, 

 larger, pet. inversely egg-shaped, or inversely heart-shaped, 

 crimson, irregular. Style bent downwards. Pollen blue. Stiym. 

 four-cleft. 



FL sometimes white : /j/tm^ increases rapidly by root. 



Suckers of the root eatable : infusion of the plant intoxicating : 



an ale in Kamschatca, brewed from the pith. Down of the seeds 



has been mixed with cotton or fur in manufacturing stockings, &c. 

 * * Flowers regular. Stigma deeply four- cleft. 



E. liirsutum. Great Hairy TV. Codlings and Cream. 

 Leaves half clasping the stem, egg-spear-shaped, hairy. 

 Stem hairy, much branched. Root creeping. E. B. 

 838. C. 2. 21. Lysimachia siliquosa. G7e. 476. 



Watery places, ditches, margins of rirers. 



Per. July. 



Stem four f., or more, leafy. Ls. toothed, somewhat saw-toothed, 

 lower ones opposite, uppermost alternate, stalkless. Branches 

 and fr. -stalks from the bosom of the leaves. Fl. corymbose, 

 large, handsome, each with a small leaf. Pet. inversely heart- 

 shaped, twice as long as cal., pink. 

 Of a delicate, acid smell, pleasant, but transitory : hence name, 



codlings, &c. 



Discrim. from Ep. parvillorum, by its creeping root, tall, branch- 

 ing stem, broad Is. and much larger _y?. 



If eaten by cattle, gi'een or dried, the plant, from its rapid 



increase, in moist situations, would be worth cultivation. 



E. parviflorum. Small-Jloivered Hoary IV. Leaves 

 stalkless, slightly toothed, spear-shaped, downy. Stem 

 nearly simple, woolly. Root fibrous. E. B. 795. 

 E. villosum. C. 2. 22. Sb. 121. 



Watery pjlaces, banks of rirers. 



Per. July. 



Stem scarcely two f. Ls. middle-ones stalkless, upper, sometimes, 



on very short foot-stalks, lower-ones opposite, upper, alternate. 



Fl. small, corymbose, terminal, leafy, becoming a spike. Pet. 



inversely heart-shaped, pale rose-colour, or purplish. Fl. and 



Is. much smaller than in Ep. hirsutum, or in Ep. angustifolium. 



E montdnum. Broad Smooth-leaved W. Leaves stalked, 

 egg-spear-shaped, toothed. Stem round. Stigma in 



