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Flore cum pedicello ad articulum delapso altera pediculi pars sesquiuncialis, 
sensim ad uncias binas, etiam teriias, oblongatur, & in siliquam sive coniculum 
abit, & propter semen eopiosum, parvum, angulosuin, pullum quod continet, 
intumescit; quod ubi maturuit, ipsa cornicula, (quae utrinque ad caulis latera 
numerosa sunt) in quatuor partes dehiscunt, quaternis loculamentis quatuor 
seminum ordines continentia, nulla intus lanugine seminibus adliaerescente. 
[In singulis foliorum alia singuli flores sedent; cornicula sessilia pediculis 
carent, ad basin crassiora, sensim versus apicem tenuiora, raris pilis hirsuta.] 
Plantain liaiic Lysimacliiae Americanae titulo describit & depingit P. Co- 
lumna, Annotat. ad Res meclicas Novae H'ispan. Nard. Ant. Recchi: & Axochiotl 
seu Florem aquae praedicti Recchi seu Hernandez, lib. 7. cap. 48, Hist. Mexicana, 
descriptum & depictum esse existhnat, quod & nobis etiam videtur. 
Prima qua sata est aestate caulem non edit, verum anno sequente, semine 
autem ad maturitatem perducto radicitus exarescit. 
Camaranbaya Brasiliensis altera species Marggr. huic eadem esse videtur. 
11. Lysiviacbia Virginiana altera, foliis latioribiCs, floribus Juteis majoribus 
Cat. Altdorf. 
Hace praecedente elatior est & major, ut quae humanum interdum altitudinem 
multum superet,^ foliis latioribus, & pro magnitudine tu'evioribus, ad margines 
minus sinuatis & propeniodum aequalibus: floribus etiam multo amplioribus. 
In hortis nostris frequentior est praecedente. 
A 111011 ^ tlie many chaises in description 10, from the Morison descrip- 
tion may lie pointed ont tlie insertion of the word -diirsutus, ” which 
chai’acterizes the stem lietter than “laevis”; the word ‘‘angulosnra” is 
added to the description of the seeds, and “pnlhim” suhstitnted for 
'Aiigrnm ant fnseum.’’ The capsule is more fully described, and the 
clause '‘nulla intus lanuo'ine seminihus adliaerescente” contrasts it with 
the species of Epilohium. 
The reference to Hernandez was found to he an independent (earlier) 
account of a plant which appears to liave been 0. LamarcMana. This is 
the only description I have found in which the crinkling of the leaves 
is described. , In Hernandez’s Xova Plant. Anim. et Miner. Mex., pub- 
lished at Koine in 1651. this important independent description is given 
(p. 882) as follows: 
Lysimaclna Americana. 
Primae iconis plantam, ni fallimur, vel illi admodum similem, satam habemus 
ex Virginia Novi Orbis allatam, & sub nomine Lysimanchiae luteae a doctiss. 
Johanne Pona Veronense nobis cum alijs rarioribus dono missam, cuius flores 
(pictoris forsan incuria in summo non dense depicti) siliquis insidentes appar- 
ent, longo lobulo prodeuntes lutei, qiii crescente caule paulatim inter foliorum 
Un a recent visit to St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, ■ on the coast near Liverpool, England, 
where many large-flowered Oenotheras have been growing wild for a century at least. 
.1 observed one rather constant race which seeded itself in an unused back-yard. Its 
a\'erage height exceeded that of a man, and its flowers were, correspondingly very large. 
The other charaeters were intermediate in some respects between O. Lamarckiana and 
O. (jrandiflord. hut much nearer the foi’mer. 
