EPILO'BIUM SPICA'TUM. 
SPIKED WILLOW HERB. 
Class. Order, 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
N. America 
4 feet. 
July & Aug- 
Perennial. 
before 1820 
No. 956. 
Modern authors content themselves by deriving 
the word, Epilobium, from the Greek epi, upon ; 
and LOBOS, a pod ; indicating that the flower grows 
on a pod. The name was, however, adopted by 
Conrad Gesner, and he gave a third Greek word, 
ION, a violet, as a part of the compound, thereby 
conveying the idea of a violet, or beautiful flower, 
on a pod. 
Epilobium spicatum holds a place in North Ame- 
rica similar to that occupied in Europe by Epilo- 
bium angustifolium. It is, however, much smaller 
in all its parts, and thereby rendered a suitable 
plant for introduction into the flower borders, 
mingled with the taller species of Veronica, Phlox, 
Spiraea, and others of similar character. It has 
never, we believe, been figured in any British work, 
and if it has not been lost to our gardens, it has 
been little known, till re-introduced a few years 
ago. 
This plant, like its European ally, increases by 
its stoloniferous roots, and by these may be increased 
with facility. It flourishes in any common earth, 
and does not object to a moist situation. 
