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from E. tetragonum L. by its broader or shorter more remotely 
and obscurely toothed L, loosely branched or straggling decum- 
bent or ascending st. and branches often rooting at their lower 
joints, and short remote scattered not corymbosely crowded 
caps. The stolons unfortunately I have neglected in Mad. to 
observe. PI. mostly robust and leafy, but sometimes weak and 
slender, much and stragglinglv branched upwards or when in 
fl., 1-2 ft. high. St. compressible or more herbaceous than in 
E. tetragonum L. and less regularly square or sharply angular, 
the leafy margins of the 1. not decurrent. L. l|-3 in. long, 
5-8 lines wide, rounded and distinctly broader at or near the 
base than elsewhere and equably attenuate therefrom into a fine 
drawn-out point, neither ligulate with parallel, nor lanceolate 
with curved margins widening above the base or in the middle, 
as in E. tetragonum L. Fl. as small as or smaller than in E. 
tetragonum L. pale rose subremote axillary along the branches or 
scattered in long erect leafy rac. Caps. 1-1^ in. long, 2 mill, 
broad, ripening in succession all along the branches and not 
corymbosely crowded upwards, the lower ripening and shed- 
ding their seeds long before the upper. 
“ E. obscurum Schreb.” of Hoiks List may possibly have been 
the true pi. But a spec, from him gathered in June 1827 was 
certainly E. tetragonum L. And hence my remark in Hook. 
J. of Bot. i. 41, before I had found the much rarer E. obscurum 
Schreb. in Mad., that by u E. obscurum Schreb.” I supposed 
Holl to mean E. tetragonum L. 
E. obscurum Reich. Ic. Bot. Crit. ii. 89. t. 199. f. 341 with 
narrow regularly and closely serrulate 1. and long slender corym- 
bose caps., is rather true E. tetragonum L. 
ft3. (Enothera L. 
Evening-primrose. 
§ Onagra Ser. in DC. ; stigma 4-cleft, fr. linear-oblong 4-an- 
gular, valves linear. 
tf 1. (E. longiflora Jacq. 
St. erect simple or sparingly branched and with cal. and caps, 
pustulate-villous ; 1. denticulate pubescent ; cal.-tube very long ; 
pet. 2-lobed half the length of cal.-tube, longer than the style 
and stam. ; caps, very long swollen in the middle contracted at 
the ton. — BM. t. 365 ; DC. iii. 47 ; Holl’s List in J. of Bot. i. 21. 
— Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. On the site of an old garden and 
Quinta at the Mount, formerly belonging to the late Mr. Mur- 
doch, half a mile W. of the Mount Church, perfectly natura- 
