Epilobium. | XXVII, ONAGRACEZ, 153 
small flowers, nodding buds, and club-shaped, undivided stigma ; but its 
stature is taller, often a foot or even two in height, and the leaves are 
longer and much narrower, often linear. It sometimes also comes very 
near the narrow-leaved forms of H. roseum and LH. tetragonum, but has 
the buds much more nodding, and the decurrent lines on the stem are either 
very faint or entirely wanting. 
In wet, boggy places, and watery ditches, throughout Europe and Rus- 
sian Asia, but more especially in the north, extending into the Arctic 
regions. Generally distributed over Britain, but not a very common species. 
Fl, summer. 
8. H.alsinefolium, Vill, (fig. 348). Chickweed Epilobe.—Closely 
allied to, and perhaps a mere variety of, H. alpinum, but much more 
luxuriant, and frequently branched, though seldom more than 6 inches 
high. Leaves very shortly stalked, ovate, and toothed, and an inch long 
or more, like those of #. montanwm, but of a thicker consistence. Flowers 
larger than those of 4. alpinum, forming very short, leafy racemes. Buds 
nodding, and stigma club-shaped, as in L. alpinum. The autumnal scions 
are more frequently underground than green and leafy. 
Along alpine rivulets and springs, in all the great mountain-ranges of 
Europe and western Asia. Very common in the Scotch Highlands, extend- 
ing into the mountains of North Wales and north-western England, but 
net recorded from Ireland. £V. summer. 
9. EB. alpinum, Linn. (fig. 349). Alpine Hpilobe.—This little plant 
is seldom more than 4 or 5 inches high, and often much shorter, decum- 
bent and much branched at the base, glabrous or nearly so; the autumnal 
scions usually above ground, slender and leafy, rarely short and tufted. 
Leaves more or less stalked, small, ovate or lanceolate, usually obtuse, and 
entirely or obscurely toothed. The stems have not the raised decurrent 
lines of H. roseum, but are only marked occasionally with faint downy 
lines. ‘The flowers, although as small as in ZH. palustre, appear large in 
proportion to the size of the plant, they are few in the axils of the upper 
leaves, forming short, leafy racemes. Buds nodding. Petals notched. 
Style ending in a club-shaped stigma, entire or nearly so. Pod 1 to 2 
inches long, narrowed at the base into a long stalk. 2H. anagallidifolium, 
Bab. Man. 
Along alpine rills, and wet places in the high mountain-ranges or Arctic 
regions of Kurope, Russian Asia, and northern America. Abundant in the 
Scotch Highlands, but very local in England, and does not extend into 
Wales or Ireland. Fl. summer. 
Il. ®@NOTHERA. CNOTHERA. 
Herbs or undershrubs, with alternate leaves, and yellow, red, or purple 
flowers, either axillary or in terminal spikes or racemes. Calyx-tube pro- 
longed above the ovary, 4-lobed at the top, Petals4. Stamens 8. Ovary 
and capsule 4-celled. Style distinct, with a capitate or 4-lobed stigma. 
Seeds numerous, without any tuft of cottony hairs. 
A large American, and chiefly North American genus, from whence 
several species are cultivated in our flower-gardens. 
1, &. biennis, Linn. (fig. 350). Common Cnothera, Evening Prim- 
rose.—A biennial, 2 or 3 feet high; the stems almost simple, and more or 
