212 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
Although Cupheas require greenhouse treatment they 
eon are very sanity ear All those mentioned above are 
evergreen perennials, except C. lanceolata, which is biennial. Seeds 
should be sown in pans in January or February and placed in gentle 
heat. As soon as the seedlings are large enough to handle they should 
be potted singly in good rich loamy soil, and shifted as growth renders 
necessary, until they have become nice bushy plants in six-inch pots. 
When the pots are well filled with roots give liquid manure. If preferred, 
they may be bedded out in the open air during their first summer, and 
taken into the greenhouse later. They may also be increased by means of 
cuttings, struck in March or April in bottom heat. Old plants cut down 
will produce a number of new shoots from the roots, and if these are 
taken off and grown in a cool place during the summer they will be kept 
small and occupy little space in the greenhouse for their first winter, yet 
make admirable blooming plants for the next season. 
Description of A couple of shoots of Cuphea ignea with flowers. 
pene Wise 1 ie ain: enlarged view of a flower; Fig. 2 a section 
of the same. 
WILLOW HERBS 
Natural Order ONAGRARIER. Genus Epilobium 
EPILoBiuM (Greek, epi, upon, and lobos, a lobe or pod; from the position 
of the flower upon the ovary, which, however, is characteristic of the 
entire Order). A genus comprising about fifty species of herbs of 
under-shrubs, with pink or purple (rarely yellow) flowers, which consist 
of a long and slender calyx-tube with four lobes, four petals, usually 
two-lobed, eight stamens, four long and four short, a four-celled ovey 
with thread-like style and clubbed or four-lobed stigma. The nee’ 
are distributed throughout the Arctic and Temperate regions of the world , 
ten species are natives of Britain. 
Principalspecies. _ EPILOBIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUy (slender-leaved). Rose Bay, 
. or French Willow. Stem round, erect, 2 to 4 feet. Leaves 
alternate, narrow lance-shaped, stalked, 3 to 6 inches long. Flowers 1 
inch across, dark rosy purple; July and August. Native. 3 
E. Doponai (Dodeens’). Stems erect, branched at top, 12 inches 
high. Leaves very slender, faintly toothed. Flowers large, rosy purple ; 
July. Introduced from France (1700). 
E. HIRSUTUM (hairy). Codlins and. Cream. Stems round, 3 to 5 
