222 ONAGRACE.E. epilobium. 



what angled. Western Washington and Oregon to California, in the 

 Eastern States and Europe.. 



2 EPILOBIUM L. Gen. n. 471. 



Perennial or annual herbs, witli nearly sessile, denticulate or en- 

 tire, often fascicled leaves, and rose-colored, purple or white, very 

 rarely yellow, flowers in panicles or racemes. Tube of the ualyx 

 not conspicuously prolonged beyond the ovary ; the limb deeply 

 4-cleft ; campanulate or funnel-form or 4-parted to the base, the 

 lobes spreading deciduous. Petals 4, spreading or somewhat 

 erect. Stamens 8 the 4 alternate ones shorter ; anthers - ellipti- 

 cal or roundish, fixed near the middle. Stigma oblong, clavate 

 or with four spreading or revolutu lobes ; capsule linear, 4-sided, 

 4-celled, 4-valved. Seeds numerous, ascending, the summit fur- 

 nished with a coma or tuft of long hairs. 



§ 1. ChamjENEeion. Calyx cleft almost to the ovary. Cor- 

 olla slightly irregular. Petals widely expanded. Stamens in- 

 serted in a single series ; the filaments dilated below. Style at 

 first recurved. Stigma with four ultimately divergent lobes. 

 Capsule mostly linear-fusiform, many-seeded. Seeds fusiform, 

 beakless, not papillate in one species. Cespitose perennials 

 from a stout caudex, bearing sessile scaly winter buds with terete 

 stems and ample leaves. 



E. spicatnm Lam. Fl. France 1077. Stems erect, 2-6 feet high, sub- 

 x^ simple, glabrate below : leaves lanceolate, acute, nearly entire, 4-8 inches 

 long,on very short petioles, thin pinnately veined, with the evident lateral 

 veins confluent in submarginal loops: infloresence elongated; racemes 

 with small bracts ; young flower buds soon reflexed, but again spreading 

 or ascending before expansion : petals -5-7 lines long, style exceeding the 

 stamens, hairy at base; capsule 2-3 inches long; seeds less than a line 

 long,with very long dingy coma. Alaska to California, the Eastern States, 

 Europe and Asia. 



E. latifolium, L. sp. 347. A span to afoot or more high, frequently 

 branched, mostly glabrate below; leaves 1-2 inches long; usually oppo- 

 site and connected below on the branches and rarely on the main stem; 

 lanceolate to ovate, acute at both ends, entire or &paringly and minutely 

 dentioilate, scarcely petioled, rather coriaceous, the mostly free lateral 

 veins inconspicuous : inflorescence usually short and few-flowered, leafy 

 throughout, the buds not reflexed ; petals 8-15 lines long, rather narrow, 

 styles shorter than the stamens, glabrous; seeds a line long or more. 

 Damp places Arctic America to N.E. Oregon and N. E. states, Asia and 

 the Himalayas. 



§ 2. Lysimachion. Calyx with an evident though usually 

 short tube mostly somewhat hairy within. Corolla regular, the 

 petals deeply notched or obcordate ; usually not expanding be- 

 yond funnelform. Stamens inserted in two more or less dis- 

 tinct whorls ; those opposite the sepals longer and more deeply 

 inserted. Stjde not declined mostly glabrous. 



* Stigma 4-cleft: seeds beakless. Perennials with rather slender 

 caudex and usually terete stems. 



