(EXOTHF/EA HUMTFU^SA. 
TRAILING (ENOTHERA. 
Cluis. Order. 
OCTANDRU. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introdviced 
Florida. 
18 inches 
.Aufir. Sept. 
Annual 
in 18-21. 
No. 1005. 
It does not generally occur that the derivation of 
old botanical terms has been found to be explained 
by the ancients themselves. They formed names, 
by compounding Greek words, but left the moderns 
to find out the motives which caused their adoption. 
In the present instance, however, Theophrastus 
has stated that CEnothera is derived from oinos, 
wine ; and thera, catching ; on account of the roots, 
on becoming dry, taking a vinous fragrance. If 
this derivation be admitted as legitimate, the word 
must be accented on the penultimate, or last syl- 
lable but one, and not on the second syllable, as 
generally heard. 
This pretty annual (Enothera, although it has 
long been introduced to England, is rarely met with 
in our gardens. It is the (Enothera concinna of 
Sweet’s British Flower Garden, a name which has 
yielded to humifusa — this having been previously 
adopted by Nuttall. 
In cultivation, this plant requires a dry and 
rather sandy soil ; a w^et and stiff soil dwarfs, or 
as is sometimes said, stunts its growth. It should 
be soAvn in April. 
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