EPILO'BIUM LATIFO'LIUM. 
BROAD-LEAVED WILLOW-HERB. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, 
ONAGRARIiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Europe. 
2 feet. 
July August. 1 
Perennial. 
in 1779. 
No. 671. 
The name, Epilobium,is deduced from the Greek 
language, signifying, literally, a Violet upon a pod. 
It was not uncommon for the Greeks to use the 
name of the Voilet to indicate beauty, hence it is 
used in the present instance without reference to 
any real resemblance between the flowers. 
The Epilobium latifolium is a very ornamental 
plant, suitable for the borders or rock- work, and 
would, perhaps, be as generally cultivated as the 
Pink or Polyanthus were it at all times as easily 
subjected to division; this, however is not the case, 
for oftentimes it is not only not visible on the sur- 
face of the ground, but it is not readily found be- 
neath it, for a single under-ground shoot will tra- 
vel, in a light soil, two or three feet in a season, 
scarcely leaving a fibre to mark the place of its 
former residence. 
If the creeping suckers of this species of Epilo- 
bium be transplanted in autumn or spring they 
will grow ; and it will be found advantageous to 
plant it in a strong soil, which by checking its rov- 
ing habit will concentrate its growth, and thereby 
increase its gaiety. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 2, 680. 
