ONAGBACEJS. 



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In waste and cultivated places, road- 

 sides, woods, etc., throughout Europe 

 and Eussian and central Asia, and ap- 

 parently in many other parts of the globe. 

 Yery abundant in Britain. Fl. summer. 

 It varies much in the size of the flowers, 

 which are in dry situations often nearly 

 as small as in the pale _Z?., from which 

 it is then chiefly distinguished by the 

 deeply- cleft stigma. 



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Fig. 339. 



5. Pale Epilobe. Epilobium roseum, Schreb. (Fig. 340.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 693.) 



An erect plant, glabrous or hoary 

 when young, much resembling at first 

 sight a small-flowered broad J?., but the 

 leaves are narrower, on longer stalks, 

 the lower ones generally opposite, with 

 a raised line descending more or less 

 along the stem from the junction of the 

 leafstalk on each side, almost as in the 

 square E. They vary from ovate-lanceo- 

 late to narrow- oblong, and from 1 to 3 

 inches in length. Flowers in a short, 

 terminal, leafy, branched raceme or 

 panicle ; the limb of the calyx hardly 2 

 lines long, and the notched petals not 

 much longer. Buds erect or slightly 

 nodding, the style ending in a club- 

 shaped stigma, either entire or very 

 shortly 4-lobed. Pods from 1 to 2 inches 

 long. 



Along ditches, and in moist situations, 

 in Europe and Russian Asia, but not so common as either the preced- 



Fiff. 340. 



