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this case due to pubescene and not to a ‘ ‘ bloom ’ ’ or coating of wax as in 
modern botanical usage; ''quandoque laciniata” of Baubin’s descrip- 
tion is omitted entirely as being, perhaps, too infrequent or incon- 
spicuous to find a place in the description. 
In regard to the flower, “ quadrif olius ” becomes “quatuor petal is 
constans”; folia,” ''foliola”; in regard to the seeds, ‘biigrum” 
becomes ‘biigrum aut fuscum,” which is much more nearly correct. 
“Exilit” is perhaps more appi;opriate than ‘‘prodit” applied to the 
hairs on the stem. Some errors are also perpetuated. Thus, perhaps 
'flatitudine unciam vix excedentia” applied to the rosette leaves; 
probably ^ ^ albicans ’ ’ applied to the anthers ; certainly ‘ ^ sesquiuncialis ’ ’ 
applied to the length of the ovary at the time the flower falls. The 
term ^‘non papposa” in the name presumably contrasts' Oenothera with 
the capsule characters of Epilobium. 
IMorison also gives flgures of the two species {Plant. Hist. Tab. 11, 
Sec. 3) under the names Lysimaclna Tirginiana latifolia lutea, corni- 
culata, nohis, Eig. 7 (with large flowers) and Lysimaclna Virginiana 
angustifolia, corniculata, noMs, Fig. 8 (with small flowers). Figures of 
single flowers' are also given, the diameter of the large flower being rep- 
resented as exactly three times that of the small one. These figures are 
photographed and reproduced in plate 2. 
Six years later, in 1686, John Eay in his Historia Pla^itariim, Vol. I., 
p. 862, gives a similar description, partly copied from ]\forison, but 
with many amendations and additions, and the omission of the rosette 
characters. The original, which is given here for comparison with the 
earlier descriptions, is as follows : 
10. Lysimachia Lutea Virginiana Ger. emac. lutea siliquosa Virginiana 
Park, lutea corniculata C. B. App. TPtEE PRIMROSE. Lys. Americana Col. 
Axocliiotl Hernandez. 
C. B. 
Ex radice oblonga, alba, digitalem crassitudinem superante, paucis fibris 
ca.pillata caulis exurgit initio rotundus, at supra medium ob plurimos ramos 
anguldsus, subcinereus, laevis [hirsutus,] crassitudine digitali, medulla farctus, 
& superius punctis rubentibus varie notatus. Folia longa, angusta, in caule 
crebra, alternatim posita, ad margines sinuata & obiter dentata. Flores 
Lysimachiae modo summis siliquis insident magni, tetrapetali, lutei, Primulae 
veris floribus similes, e calice quadrifolio, pediculo rotundo, articulato donate. 
In medio fiore stylus conspicitor, qui viridis usque ad articulum descendlt, & 
apicibus quatuor sulphurei 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 
insidet. Flos odoratus est, ultra diem non persistens, cum is qui sub vesperam 
aperitur ad sequentis diei vesperam flaccescat, unde Ephemerum dici meretur. 
