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Magazine , calls this species the Dandelion-leaved Evening Primrose, from the leaves resembling those of the 
Dandelion, but this name has been since given to another species. The leaves all spring from the root. This 
species was first discovered in 1819 in the arid prairies of the Red River, in North America, by Professor Nuttall, 
who gave seeds of it, with the name attached, to Robert Barclay, Esq., Bury Hill, in whose collection it flowered 
in September 1824. The name of triloba alludes to the petals, which are slightly three-lobed. We do not know 
where seeds are to be procured of this very singular species. 
FLOWERS 
13.—OENOTHERA DENSIFLORA, Lindl. 
Synonymic. —Boisduvalia Douglasii, Spach. 
Engraving.— Bot. Reg. t. 1593. 
Specific Character. —The whole plant woolly. Leaves linear- 
lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, toothed. Branchlets with small corymbs 
REDDISH. 
THE CLOSE-FLOWERED (ENOTHERA. 
of flowers, rising from the axils of the leaves. Ovary cylindrical, with 
very short bracteas. Sepals sub-coloured, smooth within. Petals 
bilobed, obtuse. Stamens four, shorter ones fertile ; four longer ones 
| often sterile.— {Lindl.) 
Description, &c.— This very remarkable plant bears hut little resemblance to the other kinds of (Enotliera , 
and certainly it has only its singularity to recommend it. The colour of its flowers is a reddish-lilac, or rather 
dirty rose-colour, and they are so small that they are almost hidden by the leaves. “ Its peculiar habit,” says 
Dr. Lindley, “ arises from each of the axillary buds of the main stem, which usually produce a single flower, 
being developed into a short branch, that itself bears flowers in the axilla of its leaves .”—(Bot. Reg. t. 1593.) 
It is a native of New California, from which country seeds were sent by Douglas in 1831. It ripens seeds 
abundantly, and they may be purchased at Charlwood’s, and in most other seed-shops. It is quite hardy, and 
requires no particular care in its cultivation. 
14.—(ENOTHERA HUMIFUSA, Nutt. 
Synonymes.— (E. concinna, D. Don. Boisduvalia concinna, Spach. 
Engravings.— Bot. Reg. t. 1829, and out Jig. 5, in Plate 8 ; Brit. 
Flow. Gard. 2nd Series, t. 183 ; and out Jig. 11, in Plate 8. 
Sfecific Character _Clothed with hairs. Stem prostrate. Leaves 
THE TRAILING EVENING PRIMROSE. 
oval at the base, sharply pointed, toothed. Flower-spikes terminal, and 
surrounded with leaves. Calyx of the tube slender, and twice as long 
as the ovary. Petals bilobed, veined, longer than the stamens. Lobes 
of the stigmas forming a small cross. Capsules prismatic {Lindl .) 
Description, &c. —A pretty little hardy annual with trailing stems, and small hairy leaves. Its flowers are 
flesh-coloured when exposed to much light, but in the shade they become of a beautiful pink. The tube of the 
flower is of a deep rose-colour. The species is a native of North America, and was discovered by Dr. Baldwin 
on the sea coast near Cumberland, in Florida. Introduced in 1824. (E. concinna , D. Don, figured in Sweet’s 
British Flower Garden , is supposed to be the same species ; but as the two figures are somewhat different, and 
as Professor Don states that the plant which his figure was taken from, was raised from seeds brought from Chili 
by Mr. Hugh Gumming, we have copied both figures in our Plate 8. Both names are in Charlwood’s Seed 
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