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2. GAUEA. (Namq in Greek means super*, which these plants are not; 

 only one of them is worth cultivating. ) Fl. all summer. 



G. Iiindheim^fi, of Texas, cult, for ornament, nearly hardy N., about 

 3° high, hairy, with lanceolate sparingly toothed leaves, long weak branches 

 producing a continued succession of handsome white flowei-s ; the calyx hairy 

 outside ; petals nearly 1 ' long, y, 



G. biennis, the common wild species, 3° -8° high, soft>hairy or downy, 

 with oblong-lanceolate obscurely toothed leaves, small white or flesh-colored 

 flowers, and downy fruit. ® 



3. EFILOBIITM, WILLOW-HEEB. (Name compounded of three 

 Greek words, meaning violet on a pod.) PI. summer. The pods opening 

 give to the winds great numbers of the downy-tufted seeds, y, 



§ 1. Flowers large and showy, in a long spike or raceme, the widely spreading 



petals on shoti claws, the stamens and long style bent downwards, and the 



stigma of 4 Imig lobes : leaves alternate. 



E. angustifdlium, Great W. or Fike-Weed. One of the plants that 



spring up abundantly, everywhere northward, where forests have been newly 



cleared and the ground burned over: tall (4° -7° high) and simple-stemmed, 



smooth, with lanceolate leaves, and a long succession of pink-purple flowers. 



§ 2, Flowers small in corymbs or panicles terminatipg the branches, with petals, 

 . stamens, and style erect, a club-shaped stigma, and alt the lower leaves 

 opposite: stem I? - 2° high. 

 E. COlorktum. Almost everywhere in wet places, fl. through late sum- 

 mer and autumn, nearly smooth ; with thin lance-oblong leaves generally with 

 purple veins, and pui-plish petals deeply notched at the end and a little longer 

 than the calyx. * 



B. mblle. In bogs N., less common,, soft downy all over ; leaves crowded, 

 linear-oblong, blunt ; petals rose-color, notched, 2" - 3" long. 



E. paltistre. In wet bogs N., slender, minutely hoary all over ; leaves 

 linear or lance-linear, nearly entire ; petals purplish or white, small. 



4. ZAUSCHNIERIA. (Named for iJiuscAncr, a Bohemian botanist.) Jl 



Z. Calif6rniea. Cult, for ornament, from California, flowering through 

 late summer and autumn, 1 ° - 2° high, the oval or lanceolate leaves and the pods 

 with downy-tufted seeds resembling those of Epilobium ; but the handsome 

 scarlet flowers more like those of a Fuchsia ; these are single and sessile in the 

 axils of the upper and alternate leaves, or at length somewhat racemed, about 

 2' long. 



5. CIiARKIA. (Named for Capt. Clark, who with Capt. Lewis made the 

 first oflicial exploration across the mountains to the Pacific, and brought home 

 one of the species.) Herbs of Oregon and California, with alternate mostly 

 entire leaves, and showy flowers in the upper axils, or the upper running 

 into a loose raceme : cult, for ornament : fl. summer. ® 



C. puleh611a. About 1° high, with naiTow lance-linear leaves, deeply 

 3-lobc<l petals (purple, with rose-colorwl and white varieties), bearing a pair of 

 minute teeth low down on the slender claw, the lobes of the stigma broad and 

 petal-like. There is a partly double-flowered variety. 



C. ^legans. Fully 2° high, more commonly flowered in the conservatory, 

 with long branches, lance-ovate or oblong leaves, the.lowcr petioled, lilac-purple 

 entire petals broader than long and much shorter than their naked claw, 

 smaller lobes to the stigma, and a hairy ovary and pod. 



6. EUCHAEI'DIUM. (Namefrom the Greek, means cAarmw^.) ® 

 E. Concinnum, of California, cult, for ornament ; a low and branching 



plant, like a Clarkia in general appearance, except in the long tube to the calyx, 

 and with ovate-oblong entire leaves on slender petioles, and middlo-sized rose- 

 purple or white flowers, in summer. 



