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to plants grown by Banliin, presumably at Basil/ The description men- 
tions that the plants were obtained from Badna (the first botanical 
garden founded in Europe) and grown in 1619, and thS description was 
evidentlj^ written from the living plants. This fixes with certainty the 
date on which the observations were made, and also shows that the Lysi- 
macliia hitea ccrmcuJata of Bauhin mmst be placed in the series of forms 
coming under Oenothera Lamar cJiiana, Ser., though not identical with 
that form in the strict sense. The text of this description of Bauhin. 
which is appended, together with a translation, reveals the fact that a 
form very similar to 0. Lamar cMana Ser. was originally a wild species 
in Virginia, and that it was the first Evening Primrose to be taken to 
Europe. 
V. LyswiacMa Lutea Gorniculata: planta est ramosa ad viri altitudinem 
assurgens, forma ad Lysimachiam latifoliam purpuream siliquosam. accedens: 
haec ex radice oblonga alba, digitalem crassitudinem superante, paucis fibris 
capillata, caulis exsurgit initio rotundus, at supra medium, ob plurimos ramos 
angulosus, subcinereus, laevis, statim a radice in breviores, mox majores ramos, 
hique in alios late expanses, braciiiatus, qui rotundi paucissimis pills donati, 
bine inde maculis parvis rubentibus variegati, ex quibus tanquam ex poris pilus 
prodit. Folia statim ad radicem plura, oblonga, palmum superantia, latitudine 
unciam vix excedentia, quae crassa, pallide virentia, laevia in acutum desinentia; 
quorum inferiora quandoque laciniata, reliqua vero obscure sinuata, per quorum 
medium costa alba, ut in Lysimacliia Chamaenerion dicta, excurrit; ex alarum 
sinibus pediculus articulatus et rotundus prodit, cujus pars supra articulum 
triuncialis fistulosa, cui fios magniis, havus quadrifolius extra folia effertur: 
qui cum primo fiorere incipit, quadrangulus est, quo aperfo verum Sole tantum 
lucente, in ejus medio stilus conspicitur, qui viridis ad articulum usque descendit, 
et apicibus quatuor sulpliurei coloris, crucis in modum dispositis, donatus est, 
quern stamina octo circumstant, quorum quatuor singulis foliis adposita, alia 
quatuor ipsis interjecta sunt; bisque singulis capitulum oblongum albicans in- 
sidet: ipsi vero flori, calycis in modum, folia quatuor oblonga, angusta, pallida 
subjiciuntur. Flos odoratus est, nonnibil ad Keiri,’ vel potius Diliaspbodeli lutei 
odorem accedens, ultra diem non persistens, cum is qui sub vesperam aperitur, 
ad sequentis diei vesperam fiaccescat, unde Epbemerum dici meretur. Flore, 
cum pedicello ad articulum delapso, altera pediculi pars sesquiuncialis, sensim 
ad uncias binas, etiam ternas oblongatur et in siliquam sive corniculum abit, 
et propter semen copiosum, nigrum, parvumque, quod continet, intumescit; 
quod ubi maturuit, ipsa cornicula, quae utrinque ad caulis latera numerosa sunt, 
in quatuor partes dividuntur. Hujus semen, Lysimaebiae Virginianae nomine 
Anno 1619. Patavio accepimus, quod Vere satum, tota aestate et byeme sine 
caule remansit: at sequent! anno, circa Veris finem caulescere, et Junio fiorere 
coepit; nunc vero ex deciduo semine (annua enim planta est) autumno dela- 
bente, singulis annis in bortulo meo copiose ©t usque in autumni finem floret. 
’Curiously enough, most of the later citations of the Pinax refer only to page 245, 
and for this reason the existence of the description in the appendix, which Snippendale 
evidently copied, was at first overlooked. 
^Probably CheirantJius cheiri of Willd. Sp. PI. 3:516. 
