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not be confounded with the CE. grandijlora of Ruiz and Pavon, a South American perennial species, with very 
large white flowers, and which has been since called (E. taraxacifolia. Seeds of the yellow CE. grandijiora may 
be procured at Chari wood’s. The seeds should be sown in autumn as soon as they are ripe in the open ground, 
if the plants are wished to flower in June. If the seeds are not sown in the open ground till March or April, the 
plants will not flower before August or September. The best way of obtaining fine plants when the sowing has 
been neglected till spring, is to sow the seeds in pots in a hotbed in March or April, and to turn the plants out 
in May, taking care, in transplanting them, not to break the ball of earth round the roots. 
10.—(ENOTHERA MOLLISSIMA, Lin. THE SOFTEST EVENING PRIMROSE. 
Synonyme. — (E. nocturna, IVilld. 
Specific Character. —Stem branched. Leaves lanceolate, a little 
undulated, repandly-toothed, and clothed with soft down. Petals 
obovate, entire, shorter than the calyx. Stamens and pistil hardly the 
length of the petals. Lobes of stigma, filiform. Capsule cylindrical, 
striated, very long, downy, somewhat tetragonal, a little thickened at 
the apex.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— This species strongly resembles the common biennial Evening Primrose {CE. biennis) in 
its habit of growth. Its flowers are yellow when they first expand, but they change to red as they fade. The 
plant is a native of Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, and Chili, where it grows wild in the fields. It was introduced 
in 17-32. Seeds may be had in any seed-shop. 
11.—(ENOTHERA LINEARIS, Michx. THE LINEAR-LEAVED EVENING PRIMROSE. 
Specific Character. —Plant slender, pubescent. Leaves linear, entire. Capsules on longish stripes, roundish, tetragonal, villous.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —A native of Upper Carolina, growing a foot high, with very narrow leaves, and yellow 
flowers. Introduced in 1322. Seeds may be had at Charlwood’s. 
12.—(ENOTHERA TRILOBA, Nutt. THE THREE-LOBED EVENING PRIMROSE. 
Synonymes. — CE. rhizocarpa, Spreng. Lavauxia Nuttalliana, 
Spach. 
Engraving. —Bot. Mag. t. 2566. 
Specific Character. —Stemless. Leaves interruptedly pinnatifid, 
toothed, glabrous. Petals obovate, slightly 3-lobed at the apex, the 
middle lobe mucronate. Capsules almost 4-winged, large, sessile at the 
root.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —The flowers are of a pale yellow, and are very sweet-scented in the evening. They are 
remarkable for the length of the tube of the calyx, which often exceeds two inches, and for springing from the 
root; they arc at first produced without any footstalk, and growing to the crown of the root, but under cultiva¬ 
tion, after the flowers have dropped, stems bearing the capsules rise about two inches. Dr. Sims, in the Botanical 
