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the 0. Lamarckiana forms. It is a very transient condition in all. 
Plate 5 is from a photograph of this page of manuscript. The fol- 
lowing is the transcription. The characters of the manuscript were lit- 
erally transcribed as far as they could be deciphered. 
Conf. Onagra latifolia floribus amplis. Tourn. inst. 302, Blaikie. 
OENOTHEEA GRANDIFLOEA. 
Cal. Periantliiiim monopliyllum superuni inferne tubulosum, apice 4-pai‘titum 
pubescens. Tubus cylindricus longissimus intus canescens. Limbus quad- 
ripartitus dependens; laciniis lineari lanceolatis apice subulatis plerum una 
altera ve excepta sutis, tube brevioribus, longit. 2 poll. 
Cor. Petala 4. obcordata, argutissime denticulata, s, Integra, laciniis caly- 
cinis longiora, ad apicem tubi inter divisures inserta, lineata. 
Stain, filamenta 8. declinata, fauci calycis inserta, corolla breviora lutea. 
Antlierae lineares biloculares, peltatae, longissime. 
Pist, German inferum cylindricum, tetragonum, pubescens, longit. 5 lin. 
Stylus filiformis intra tubum pubescens extra deflexus, staminibus longior. 
Stigma maximum quadreilobum?, cruciforme; lobis crassis teretibus patentis- 
simis glutinosis. 
Per. Capsula cylindrica, demiim subtetragona quadrinervis, quadrilocularis, 
quadrivalvis, apice primum debiscens, subvillosa, sessilis, dissepimentis valv- 
ulae singulae 
(oppositis 
(contrariis 
ejusdemque substantiae a columella subulata qiiad- 
rangula discedentibus, longit. 15 lin, diam. 3 lin. 
Sem. numerosa, obsolete angulata, columella affixa, fusca, parva. 
Spica terminalis, prolifer, erecta, foliacea S. bracteata, pubescens pedalis 
flores sessiles, lutei, odoratissimi, longit 4. poll. diam. 3. poll. Bracteae lance- 
olatae, acutae, remote — dentatae, sessiles nisi ter minores in omnia foliis con- 
formes. 
‘ Folia ovato; — lanceolata, utrinque acuta laxe — dentata, nervosa supra viridia 
infra pallida pubescentia que, subsessilia alterna, subdependentia, longit, 4-5 poll, 
diam. 3. poll. 
Caulis erectus uti fruticosus, ramosus, rirnis corticem abjiciens, rami teretes 
villcsi, scabri, ramuli patuli. 
Cotyledones deltoideo — lanceolati, obtusi, sessiles. 
O. fob ovato — lanceolatis, staminibus acclinatis, caule fruticoso. 
All five pages of the L’Heritier MS were photographed, and prints 
together with transcriptions of each page were deposited in the herba- 
rium of the Missouri Botanical Garden. The species described on the 
four other pages are as follows; 
Oenothera paniculata. A line is drawn through the word paniculata 
and fruticosa L. is written above it. Evidently the writer finally decided 
that it was not a new species. Similarly, there is a description of 0. 
lyrata, this being changed to 0. rosea. Another page is devoted to a 
