(ENOTHE'RA RUBICUN'DA. 
RUDDY (ENOTHERA. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACEa;. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
California'? 
2 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Annual. 
in 1834. 
No. 756. 
The meaning of Oenothera will be found noticed 
under No. 201. 
Although we have not adopted the name God- 
etia, which has been given to part of the plants 
usually included in the genus OEnothera, it doubt- 
less will ere long prevail. The division of CEno- 
thera was first made by M. Spach, a German 
botanist, but unfavourably received by his English 
coadjutors. He has divided it into several genera; 
that, however, named Godetia, is the only one 
which has met with notice in England. It is 
founded on the chalaza (a circular disk, at the base 
of the nucleus, within the embryo seed) having a 
fringed margin. None of the flowers of this division 
of the Linnean genus are yellow. 
Seeds of the present plant w^ere collected and 
sent home by Douglas, from California. It is 
showy and handsome, and superior to Lindleyana, 
from the warmth of tint which its flowers possess; 
and not less inferior to any annual species. 
(Enothera rubicunda requires but the usual care 
of hardy annuals. If sown in March a succession 
crop may be sown six weeks later. 
Bot, Reg. 1856. 
