(Enothera.] onagrace^. 



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flat and somewhat hollowed on their inner side, minutely papillose, scabrous, very 

 many times shorter than the snow-white, simple, perfectly sessile pappus. 



4. E. montanum, L. Broad Smooth - leaved Willow-herb. 

 " Leaves shortly stalked ovate-oblong acute rounded at the base 

 glabrous all toothed, stem rounded pubescent as well as the fruit, 

 stigma 4-cleft, root fibrous, scions none."— ^r. Fl. p. 315. E. B. 

 t. 1177. 



Tn similar places with the two preceding species, hut often in drier situations, 

 as on rocks, walls and reefs, hedgehanks, in gardens, and waste arid places; com- 

 mon. Fl. June — August. If.. 



•ff Stigma undivided. 



5. 'E.palustre,Ij. Narrotv-leaved Marsh Willow-herb. Leaves 

 narrow-lanceolate sessile nearly entire and as well as the rounded 

 erect stem subglabrous, stigma undivided, root with filiform 

 scions, flower-buds drooping, seeds fusiform. Br. Fl. p. 136. 

 E. B. t. 346. 



In wet ditches and other swampy or boggy situations (never in dry places), far 

 less frequent than the three last or the following species. Fl. July, August. Fr. 

 October. 2f. 



E. Med. — In dykes or ditches about Blackpan, and about Apse farm, in plenty, 

 Dr. Bell-Salter .'.'.' Amongst rushes by the pond on Barritt's Common, in consi- 

 derable abundance. [Boggy slope behind St. Helen's Green, A. G. More, Esq., 

 Edrs.] 



W. Med. — Low meadows near Mottiston mill, by Brixton. 



Capsules very slender. Seeds greenish brown, narrow-oblong, tapering and 

 somewhat pointed, flattish and grooved on one side, quite glabrous, many times 

 shorter than the pappus, which is seated on the short contracted summit of the 

 seed, hence appearing almost stipitate. 



6. E. tetragonum, L. Square-stalked Willow-herb. " Leaves 

 lanceolate sessile denticulate, stem with 2 — 4 angles, stigma 

 undivided, root with scions, flower-buds erect, seeds oblong-obo- 

 vate."— jBr. Fl. p. 136. E. B. t. 1948. E. virgatum, Fries. 



In precisely similar places with the^four preceding species, also on dripping 

 rocks, under moist walls, and in damp woods andhedges ; common. Fl. July — 

 September. Fr. September, October. !(.. 



E. Med. — In Whitefield Wood. In a field at Shanklin, by the road to the 

 Chine. By the roadside from Kyde to Brading, about 100 yards beyond the 2nd 

 milestone ou the right hand hedge. 



W. Med. — Abundantly along the upper Newport road, out of W. Cowes, at 

 the foot of Northwood-Park wall. 



Capsules very slender and erect, from about 2^ to 3J inches long, and scarcely 

 the sixteenth of an inch wide, glabrous to the naked eye, but beset with scattered 

 appressed bristles, beaded from the seeds within. Seeds grayish or greenish brown, 

 oblongo-obovate, semiterete, obtuse, or rather very slightly pointed, rounded (not 

 contracted) at lop, scabrous with close-set crystalline papillae. Pappus closely 

 sessile. 



II. ffiNOTHEEA, Linn. Evening Prinurose. 



" Calyx-limb deciduous, tubular at the base, deeply 4-cleft 

 upwards ; the segments reflexed, more or less combined. Petals 4. 



