appressed or incurving hairs. The leaves are from two to two 
and a half inches long, lance-shaped, very obscurely toothed, 
sometimes almost entire, narrowed at the base, but scarcely 
forming a distinct stalk, and having the ribs and the margin 
slightly hairy. The flowers grow from the axils, and are large 
and showy, the petals being over an inch in length, of a 
bright deep yellow. The calyx has a slender slightly hairy 
tube nearly three-quarters of an inch long, and the four veiny 
segments of its limb cohere more or less towards the point, 
the corolla bursting through as it were on one side. The 
petals are deeply indented at the end, and of a broad inversely 
heart-shaped figure, forming a slightly concave flower. Com¬ 
pared with the garden (Enothera riparia , the plant is much larger 
in all its parts, and less hairy, though retaining the branching 
habit, and much of the general character of that species. 
The hybrid is a free-growing perennial, increasing readily by 
means of cuttings, and also by division, and growing freely in 
ordinary garden soils, which are not poor or parched. It is 
probably a hardy perennial, but as a decorative plant would be 
more manageable if sheltered during winter in a cold frame. 
