EU'TOCA VIS'CIDA. 
CLAMMY EUTOCA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
HYDROPHYLLACE.®. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
California. 
1§ feet. 
July. 
Annual. 
in 1835. 
No. 569. 
The generic name of the plant now under consi- 
deration is deduced from the Greek eutokos, sig- 
nifying fruitful. It was adopted on account of the 
abundance of seed produced by the species first na- 
med. Viscida, is a term well applied as regards 
the peculiarity of the plant, from the clamminess 
of its whole herbage, arising from innumerable mi- 
nute hairs with little black heads, with which it is 
covered, and which yield a viscid secretion. 
This is a very desirable addition to our now ex- 
tensive catalogue of attractive annuals that em- 
bellish the open garden ; a class of plants which is 
rising greatly in the estimation of all who desire to 
possess a gay flower garden in the decline of sum- 
mer. We say in the decline of summer because an- 
nuals chiefly exhibit their beauty after Midsummer, 
when the sun takes its descending in lieu of ascend- 
ing course. Midsummer, or the summer solstice, 
presents itself to the contemplative man as that point 
of time which, like the prime of life, may be called 
the pivot of our expectations, on which anxieties 
change their balance. With what desires, hopes, 
and anticipations, each vernal ray inspires the 
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