156 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 



70. CENOTHERACE^. Evening Primrose Family. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 

 ■without stipules. Mowers regular. Calyx-tube adnate to 

 the ovary, its margin 2-4-lobed. Petals .2-4:, rarely wanting, 

 perigynous, quickly falling off. Stamens 1-8. Ovary usually 

 4-celled ; style thread-like ; stigma entire or 4-lobed ; ovules 

 1 or more in the inner angle of each cell. Fruit a capsule, 

 berry, or stone-fruit. Seeds 1 or more, smooth or hairy. 



I. (EHOTHERA, L. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby. Leaves alternate. Flowers large, 

 yellow, red, or purple. Calyx-tube 4-angled. Petals 4. 

 Stamens 8. Capsule usually 4-celled, many-seeded. 



1. (E. fniticosa, L. Sundr'ops. Biennial or perennial. Stem 

 erect, often rather stout, 1-3 ft. high, downy or sometimes smooth. 

 Leaves lance-oblong, or in one" variety linear or nearly so, usually 

 minutely toothed. Racemes often corymbed. Flowers open in 

 the daytime, showy, yellow, 1-2 in. in diameter. Pod nearly sessile, 

 ellipsoidal, with prominent ribs and strong wings. Dry soil, common. 



2. CE. pumila, L. Small Sundrops. Much like the preceding, 

 but smaller. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, entire. Flowers |— 1 in. 

 in diameter. Pod club-shaped. In dry soil. 



n. FUCHSIA, L. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl. 

 Flowers showy. Calyx colored, tubular-funnel-shaped, the 

 tube extending much beyond the ovary, the margin 4-lobed. 

 Petals 4, borne in the throat of the calyx. Stamens 8, pro- 

 jecting outside the corolla. Capsule berry-like, ellipsoidal, 

 4-angled. 



1. F. macrostemma, Ruiz and Pav. Common Fuchsia, Ladies' 

 Eardrop. Smooth. Leaves slender-petioled, toothed. Flowers on 

 long, drooping peduncles from the axils of the leaves. Calyx-tube 

 oblong or a short cylinder, not as long as its spreading lobes. Petals 

 obovate and notched, wrapped spirally around the projecting flla- 



