24 Oenothera grandiflora. 



The variety figured and marked 0. in the hotanical magazine, is 

 separated by that mark from the original species, without good rea- 

 son. The pubescence of the stem, germens, and leaves, in that va- 

 riety, cannot be considered as a constant character, since in this 

 country, both in its native and cultivated state, the pubescence is 

 often discoverable in a greater or less degree, upon plants which 

 have many leaves glabrous; whilst at the same time some specimens 

 are found entirely smooth, as well as others wholly pubescent. 



This plant, as well as the other species of the genus, are capable 

 of being raised from seeds, and some of them by parting the roots 

 and cuttings. The plants raised from seeds are the best, and they 

 succeed very well in open ground. 



Fig. 1. A flowering specimen. 



2. A leaf from the lower portion of the stem, in outline. 

 (The size of nature.) 



