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none ; embryo straight ; radicle long and taper ; 

 cotyledons short. 



Herbaceous or shrubby plants. Although they are 

 chiefly natives of temperate regions, several species are 

 indigenous to this island. 



I. (Enothera. 



Calycine sepals 4, coalescing to form a long 

 tetragonal or eight-ribbed tube, with the limb and 

 part of the tube caducous. Petals 4. Stamens 

 8, erect or decimate ; pollen triangular, viscid. 

 Stigma 4-cleft or spherical. Capsule oblongo- 

 linear, obtusely tetragonal or obovato-clavate, 4- 

 celled, 4-valved, many-seeded. Seeds attached 

 to a central placenta. 



Herbaceous or suflruticose plants. Leaves alternate, 

 laciniated, or pinnatifid. Flowers yellow, or more rarely 

 orange or purple.— — Name, from 0lv <>s wine and e^w to 

 pursue ; the roots of the cenothera biennis, having for- 

 merly been employed, like olives in the present day, as an 

 incentive to wine-drinking. It may also be ascribed, to 

 the flower opening at night, the usual period of day de- 

 voted to wine- drinking. 



1. (Enothera longiflora, Long-Jlowered 

 Evening Primrose. 



Stems simple hairy, leaves denticulated, petals 

 bi-lobed distant, calycine tube very long, stigmata 

 very long thickish, stamens shorter than the co- 

 rolla, capsules linear very long hirsute. 



HAB. Common, St. Andrew's mountains. 



F L. June, 



Biennial . Root thickness of the thumb, sending up 

 about 5 simple hairy stems. The radical leaves obova- 

 to-lanceolate, attenuated at the base along the petiole, 

 denticulated, ciliated, hairy especially along the mid-rib, 

 about four inches long : cauline leaves sessile, oblong, 

 acute. Calycine tube about thrice the length of the limb. 



