OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Epilobium. 469 
B. Cal. bell-shaped, mostly five-cleft: Stam. five to 
ten. 
F. Cal. one leaf, bell-shaped, very entire, rough: 
{Style one : Summits three: Nuts one-celled, one- 
seeded, (acorn,) surrounded at the base with the 
enlarged, cup-shaped involucre. E.) 
RHODI'OLA. Flowers B. and F. on different plants. 
(B. Bloss. four petals : Cal. with four divisions: Nect. 
four, emarginate. 
F. Cal., Pet., Nect., the same: Pist. four: Germens 
four, with many seeds. E.) 
MONOGYNIA. 
EPILOBIUM.* Cal . four-leaved, deciduous: Petals four : 
Caps, beneath, four-celled, very long: Seeds many, 
bearded. 
(1) Stamens reclining. 
E. angustifo'lium. (Leaves scattered, strap-spear-shaped, veiny, 
smooth: petals unequal: stamens declining. E.) 
Curt. 106 — FI. Dan. 289 — (E. Bot. 1947. E.) — Kniph. 11 — Park. Par. 
267. 6 — Ger. Em. 289. 7— Pet. 52. 10— J. B. ii. 907. 1 — H. Ox. iii. 11. 
row 1. l.f. 3. 
( Root creeping, with numerous buds. Stems three to six feet high, reddish, 
seldom branched. Leaves nearly sessile, strap-spear-shaped, acute, en¬ 
tire or slightly toothed, smooth, veiny, glaucous beneath. Pollen blue. 
Stigma four-cleft. E. Bot. E.) Leaves edged with a few small teeth, 
thinly set. Blossoms rose-coloured, or white, (numerous, in long terminal 
clusters. Germens hoary, purplish above. E.) Petals entire. The sta¬ 
mens, the anthers , and the pistils have regular and successive movements 
during the impregnation of the germen. 
Rose-bay Willow-herb. (Persian or French Willow. Welsh: 
Helyg-lys hardd. In Norfolk, but not a native of that county. E.) 
Woods and hedges. Meadows near Sheffield ; Alton, Hants; Maize 
Hill, beyond Greenwich; Grass Woods, near Kilnsay, Yorkshire. At 
Satterthwaite and Brow-edge, in Furness Fells. Mr. Jackson. Near 
Berkhamstead, Herts, plentifully. Mr. Woodward. (Shepscombe Wood, 
Pains wick. Mr. O. Roberts. On rocks by the west side of Shewing 
Shields, near Crag Lake, Northumberland ; on rocks above Folden Lead 
Mill, near Edmond Byers, Durham. Winch Guide. Box Hill, Surry. 
Mr. W. Christy. In a wood near Tyfry, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Above 
Langton Ford, and other inaccessible rocks among the Cheviots. Mr. 
* (From £7 n >o§ou, tov, expressive of a beautiful flower growing upon apod; the red 
blossoms being thus singularly placed in a lateral position. E.) 
