Plate 54. 
YOUNG’S EVENING PRIMROSE. 
(Eno tliera Youngii. 
This variety of Evening Primrose has been recently raised 
by Mr. Young, of Taunton, and is reported to have been ob¬ 
tained by crossing the plant known in the gardens as (Enothera 
riparia with (Enothera glauca , by which means, while the 
branching and spreading habit of the former was retained, in¬ 
creased size and attractiveness were given to the flowers. Mr. 
Young regards it as being “ well calculated for bedding pur¬ 
poses, continuing a very long time in bloom, and being of very 
easy cultivation.” 
It is, without doubt, a free-blooming handsome variety, with 
the stems much branched and of moderate height, available 
therefore, with a little aid in pegging down the shoots, as a bed- 
ding-plant for the flower-garden. Our figure was made from 
specimens communicated by Mr. Young, in October last. It 
has been noticed under the name of (E. rijpario-glauca , which 
w T as intended to indicate its reputed parentage, but as the pa¬ 
rent species have not been critically examined, it seems pre¬ 
ferable to adopt some other distinctive appellation. 
The mature plants of this showy hybrid, bear stems about a 
couple of feet long, and much branched, the habit being ap¬ 
parently spreading or more or less prostrate. The stems are 
quite round, and are clothed not very thickly, with somewhat 
Plate 54. —(Exothera Yotjngii (hyb. riparia x glauca, bort.); perennial, 
spreading or semi-prostrate, mucb-brancbed; stems terete, clothed with in¬ 
curved hairs ; leaves lance-shaped, obscurely toothed or almost entire, nar¬ 
rowed below, scarcely stalked, slightly hairy on the ribs and margin; flowers 
large, showy, the ovary including its stalk of about equal length, club-shaped, 
four-cornered, hairy; calyx-tube slender, slightly hairy, as long as the ovary, 
the segments more or less cohering towards the points; petals broadly ob- 
eordate, bright rich yellow. 
