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XXVIII. ONAGRACE^E. 
\_Epil6bium. 
the calyx. Stamens inserted into the calyx, and twice as many 
as its lobes, or fewer. Ovary of 2 — 4 cells, often crowned by a 
disk. Style filiform ; stigma capitate or lobed. Fmit a berry, 
or dry and usually dehiscent. Seeds without albumen. — 
Herbs or Shrubs. Leaves frequently opposite. 
1. Epilobium. Stam. 8. Cal.-limb divided nearly to the base, deci- 
duous. Seeds many, with a tuft of hairs. 
2. CEnothkka. Stam. 8. Cal.-limb tubular at the base, deciduous. 
Seeds many, naked. 
3. Isnardia. Stam. 4. Cal.-limb 4-parted, persistent. Seeds many, 
naked. 
4. Circ.ea. Stam. 2. Seeds 1 — 2. 
1. Epilobium Linn. Willow-herb. 
Cal.-limb deciduous, 4-partite or nearly so. Pet. 4. Stam. 8. 
Capsule elongated 4-celled, 4-valved, many-seeded. Seeds with 
a tuft of hairs at one extremity. — Named from tm, upon, and 
\oioe, a pod ; the flower being placed upon the top of the elon- 
gated seed-vessel. 
* Flowers irregular. Stamens and style bent dozen. Cal.-limb 4-partite. 
1. E. angustifulium L. ( Rose-bay W .) ; leaves scattered 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate veined glabrous, flowers irregular 
subspicate, pedicels free from the bractea, stamens declined. — 
a. flowers larger, capsule scarcely an inch long spreading. 
E. B. t. 1947. — ft. flowers smaller, capsule about 24 inches 
long linear erect. E. macrocarpum Stepk. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 
viii. 170. 
Moist banks and margins of woods ; rare in England, less so in 
Scotland. Near Enniskerry, Ireland. If.. 7. — Stems 4 — 6 feet 
high. Whole plant very handsome. The var. a. is that common in 
gardens, and rarely produces seed. 
[We possess specimens of E. angustissimum of Curtis, the E. ros- 
marinifolium of Haenke, said to be collected in Glen Tilt, Scotland, 
by Mr. J. Robertson ; this has not yet been verified by others : the 
species may be easily recognised by the linear veinless obsoletelv toothed 
leaves which are revolute at the margin, the pedicel combined for 
some way with the stalk of the bractea, and by the declined stamens, 
which are as long as the style.] 
** Flowers regular. Stamens and styles erect. Stigznas 4-cleft. Cal.- 
limb cleft dozen to its short campanulate base. 
2. E. hirsutum L. ( great hairy IF.) ; mostly creeping, leaves 
serai-amplexicaul ovate-lanceolate, deeply serrate hairy, stem 
much branched erect, flower-buds rounded woolly mucronate, 
stigma 4-cleft. E. B. t. 838. 
Sides of ditches, rivers, and lakes, frequent. Tj. 7, 8. — Almost 
