EPILOBIUM. 
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a claret-col. juice, sweet but insipid, quite harmless, a favourite 
food of turkeys, and eaten sometimes by children. 
F. gracilis Lindl. (F. decussata Sims BM. t. 2507, not Ruiz 
et Pav.), globosa Lindl. (BM. t. 3364), fulgens DC.(BM. t.3801), 
corymbifora Ruiz et Pav. (BM. t. 4000), &c. and Schufa arbo- 
rescens (Sims) BM. t. 2620 are common in gardens ; but, though 
introd. 20-30 years ago, have shown as yet no tendency to be- 
come naturalized. 
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Tribe II. Onagrea. 
The "Willow-herb or Evening-primrose tribe. 
2. Epilobium L. 
Willow-herb. 
§ Lysimachion Tausch. DC. ; fl. regular ; cal. with a short free 
tube above the ovary, pet. 2-lobed or obcordate, starn. and 
style erect. L. opposite, the upper alternate. 
(a) Stigmas free spreading. Stem rounded. Stolons none ; rosettes 
autumnal sessile. 
1. E. parviflorum Schreb. 
Softly pubescent; st. round erect villous-downy with short 
spreading cottony pubescence ; l. sessile lanceolate from a rounded 
base, rather closely and sharply denticulate or serrulate, the 
lowest shortly stalked ; rac. erect ; fl.-buds ovoid mamillate, sep. 
lanceolate simply acute ; seeds minutely granulate obovate-ob- 
long truncate at top, blunt or rounded at the base. — EB. t. 795 ; 
Hook. FI. Sc. i. 117 ; Sm. E. FI. ii. 214; DC. iii. 43 ; WB. ! ii. 7 ; 
Koch 265 (var. a) ; Bab. 117. F. molle Lam. Enc. ii. 475 ; 
Spr. ii. 232. E. palustre Willd. (not Linn.). E. villosum Curt. 
E.hirsutum (3. L. E. pubescens Brot. ii. 19. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 
1, 2, 3 (chiefly 2), c. Moist banks and rocks ; Rib. de S ta 
Luzia, Rib. da Metade, Serra d’Agoa, &c. ; scarcely below 2000 
ft. except on wet seacliffs, as on the road between P ta do Sol 
and Magdalena, S. Vicente and Seixal, S. Vicente and P ta Del- 
gada especially at the Passo d’Area where it is very abundant. 
June-Aug.— St. stout firm and stiff, mostly red or purplish, 
12-18 in. high, perfectly round without lines or angles, leafy 
throughout and mostly simple or a little branched at top only, 
mostly erect altogether, but sometimes decumbent though 
never rooting at the base, thickly clothed with crisped entan- 
gled spreading cottony pubescence. Whole pi. of a dull some- 
what greyish or hoary gr. Stolons none. L. sessile but neither 
decurrent nor amplexicaul, truly lanceolate being rounded but 
not broadest at the base, softly and closely downy all over. El. 
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