ONAGR ARMS. 
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none ; embryo straight ; radicle long and taper ; 
cotyledons short. 
Herbaceous or shrubby plants. Although they are 
chiefly natives of temperate regions, several species are 
indigenous to this island. 
I. GEnothera. 
Calycine sepals 4, coalescing to form a long 
tetragonal or eight-ribbed tube, with the limb and 
part of the tube caducous. Petals 4. Stamens 
8, erect or declinate ; pollen triangular, viscid. 
Stigma 4-cleft or spherical. Capsule oblongo- 
linear, obtusely tetragonal or obovato-clavate, 4- 
celled, 4-valvcd, many-seeded. Seeds attached 
to a central placenta. 
Herbaceous or suflruticose plants. Leaves alternate, 
laciniated, or pinnatilid. Flowers yellow, or more rarely 
orange or purple. Name, from 0 ivo S wine and o n? u to 
pursue ; the roots of the cenotiiera biennis, having for- 
merly been employed, like olives in the present day, as an 
incentive to wine-drinking. It may also be ascribed, to 
the flower opening at night, the usual period of day de- 
voted to wine-drinking. 
1. (Enothera longiflora, Long- flowered 
Evening Primrose. 
Stems simple hairy, leaves denticulated, petals 
bi-lobed distant, calycine tube very long, stigmata 
very long thickish, stamens shorter than the co- 
rolla, capsules linear very long hirsute. 
II AB. Common, St. Andrew’s mountains. 
F L. June, 
Biennial . Root thickness of the thumb, sending up 
about 5 simple hairy stems. The radical leaves obova- 
to- lanceolate, attenuated at the base along the petiole, 
denticulated, ciliated, hairy especially along the mid-rib, 
about four inches long: cauline leaves sessile, oblong, 
acute. Calycine tube about thrice the length of the limb. 
